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Gallery 38 is delighted to present our colour-themed gallery show “Blue”, following the previous show “White”.

In art history, the colour blue, such rare and valuable hue, has been highly prized and desired since lapis lazuli in the Ancient Near East. The pursuit continued to Egyptian Blue, the first synthetic blue pigment, in the Ancient Egypt and after ultramarine in the medieval Europe. In the modern era, many artists such as Picasso and Yves Klein obsessively pursued their own blue in their artworks.
We wonder, it is probably because that blue, evoking vast sky and sea, and consequently …