Tom F Klein

Shanghai, Shanghai, China

About Tom F Klein

Working mostly in portraiture, Tom fuses traditional formats and motifs with modern modes of representation. His works reflect a very special aesthetics and a style completely his own. His seductively moody celebrations of portraits are notable for their graphic sense and brilliant color. He uses his modest-scale, jewel-like paintings, to explore the relationship between outward form and inner spirit, to express the ‚subjects’ needs, feelings and yearnings and to display the likeness and the personality or their emotions; ‚You have to listen to people, be open, try to look behind their facades if you want to be able to reflect the portrayed person in the painting. There is so much more behind a person’s appearance’, he claims. Some of his paintings now hang in private collections in México City, Bogotá, Malaysia, Shanghai, Beijing, Hamburg and Berlin.

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After an extensive career in creativity and advertising, Tom has focused his soul entirely into art - his deepest lifelong passion.
Coming from a graphic design background (...he worked many years as an art director/ creative director in different advertising agencies in Germany and Argentina, such as BBDO, TBWA, DDB), he explores the idea of graphic work with an added unique painterly quality.

Tom spent much time in the USA and lived in Germany, Argentina and México. Beginning of 2017 he moved to Shanghai.

Exhibitions:

· 'Sing me' · Solo exhibition on invitation by Henderson Land Group Hong Kong in Shanghai at 2 different locations in August 20nineteen
· 'The Legacy' · Painting/Art Installation · 'Blue Beats' campaign against plastic by Henderson Land Group Hong Kong in Shanghai at 5 different locations in May/ June 20nineteen
· 'The sky is the limit' · Solo exhibition at 'La Galerie' · Shanghai · April/ May 20nineteen
· 'Love me with your Chinese eyes' · Video installation Art Box Project at Armory Artweeks New York City 2018
· 'Peephole' · Galería 'Aguafuerte' · México City · June 2017
· 'The windows' · Galría 'Hazme el Milagrito' · México City · December 2016
· 'Joe - lookig for love' · Galería 'Hazme el Milagrito' · México City · November 2016
· 'Two men in love' · Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca · October/ November 2016
· 'Will you be my prince' · Galería 'Hazme el Milagrito' · México City · September/ October 2016
· Request for a donation of one of my paintings of my series 'Two men in love' of the museum 'MaReA'
Bogotá/ Colombia for their permanent collection · August 2016
· 'Two men in love' · Galería 'Aguafuerte' · México City · July 2016
· 'Will you be my prince' · Galería 'Aguafuerte' · México City · February 2015
· '20$ rooms' · Galería 'Aguafuerte' · México City · November 2015

Tom F Klein

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