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《From Sea To Sky—The Blue Axis》
Bluerider ART LA•Manhattan Beach
New US Flagship Inaugural Exhibition
Bluerider ART
Curatorial Statement
“Blue is spiritual, profound, and free.
It transcends borders and connects us with the universe.
Blue is the color of art and the migration of the soul.
The Blue Axis marks our constant journey of
movement, becoming, and dialogue.It embodies ideals beyond reality—
the eternal mission of Bluerider ART.”
— Elsa Wang, Founder of Bluerider ART, Manifesto of Blue Values
Blue is the primal spirit of Bluerider ART, a color of continuity and becoming, a dimension in which art is perpetually generated. The “Blue Axis” is not merely geographical—it begins in Taipei, crosses Shanghai and London, and now reaches Los Angeles, the fourth global site of Bluerider ART. This axis stretches across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, uniting spirit and practice, culture and nature. It marks a milestone for the gallery’s platform while carrying forward the legacy of Kandinsky’s Der Blaue Reiter, a belief in art as the knight of thought, connecting East and West, and opening dialogues on freedom, becoming, and boundlessness.
Bluerider ART LA • Manhattan Beach occupies 15,000 square feet across four interconnected octagonal structures. Designed in 1953 by renowned architect John Merrill Gray, the complex is an iconic example of mid-century modernism. With its bold polyhedral forms, expansive glass walls, and integration of gardens and a seven-meter reflecting pool, the architecture dissolves the boundaries between indoors and outdoors. Here, space is no longer a backdrop but a generative field: the act of walking, viewing, and contemplation becomes part of the artwork itself.
The inaugural exhibition From Sea To Sky—The Blue Axis features 16 internationally acclaimed artists from 10 countries—Germany, Taiwan, Spain, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic, and Argentina—presenting 22 works that embody the imagery of “blue.” Across painting, sculpture, installation, and video, these works traverse borders to reflect on East–West cultural dialogues, universe and life , nature and science, and the self in relation to the other. The exhibition responds to philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s notion of Becoming—art as a process not of linear change from A to B, but of fluidity across heterogeneity and boundaries, constantly generating new possibilities.
Highlights include, Willi Siber’s Baroque Pearl — combining baroque opulence with organic rhythms in minimalist elegance. Yang Mao-Lin’s Coelacanth L1901— a dramatic and unconventional work using deep-sea creatures as metaphors for self and history. Josep Riera i Aragó’s Seven Airplanes Flying to the Left — painting and assemblage combining aviation and mechanics in a pursuit of freedom. Cao Jigang’s Half Mountain — merging Western tempera techniques with Eastern landscape philosophy to reveal a path of harmony and transcendence. Carol Prusa’s Wellspring — a six-meter scroll envisioning regeneration, resilience, and cosmic creation. Nick Veasey’s Captain America —X-ray precision photography exposing the hidden worlds beneath surfaces. MARCK’s Geggenstorm — video sculpture fusing virtual and physical space to explore the desire for escape.
From Sea To Sky—The Blue Axis is more than a geographical expansion; it is a vertical axis of thought, stretching from the depths of the sea to the boundlessness of the sky. It channels currents of sensibility toward freedom of spirit, embodying the core energy that drives Bluerider ART’s curatorial practice. The exhibition stands not only as a diverse presentation of fine art but as a new cultural wave for the Southern California coast—a luminous beacon for the spirit and soul.
Opening Exhibition Artists：
Willi Siber (Germany）
Yang Mao Lin（Taiwan）
Josep Riera i Aragó（Spain）
Cao Jigang（China）
Carol Prusa （USA）
Nick Veasey（UK）
Bryan Ida（USA）
Marck（Switzerland）
Pascal Dombis（France）
Thierry Feuz（Switzerland）
Sven Drühl（Germany）
Susanne Kühn（Germany）
Ruprecht von Kaufmann （Germany）
Chang Ling（Taiwan）
Jan Kaláb（Czech Republic）
Ramiro Smith Estrada（Argentina）
“From Sea To Sky—The Blue Axis”
Bluerider ART LA．Manhattan Beach Inaugural Exhibition
Press & Grand Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 4–7 PM (Open to public)
Exhibition Dates:
2025.9.20 – 2026.1.24
Bluerider ART LA．Manhattan Beach
1030 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Opening Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00 AM – 6:30 PM
info.usa@blueriderart.com
Artist
Willi Siber
(Germany, b. 1949）
Willi Siber (Germany, b. 1949) graduated from the University of Stuttgart, majoring in Art History. He currently lives and works in Upper Swabia, Germany, and is renowned for his abstract installations. Siber states, "My works are always free and independent objects that do not need to be narratively explained." Drawing from the Baroque art and cultural landscape of southern Germany's Upper Swabia, as well as being surrounded by the boundless natural scenery, Siber transforms and distills the Baroque's opulent colors and rhythms, along with his profound connection to nature, into his abstract works. He continuously explores the plasticity of materials, focusing on shape, color, and texture to overturn viewers' visual perceptions. In 2023, he was awarded Germany's most prestigious cultural honor, the "Oberschwäbischer Kunstpreis." In 2019, he held a retrospective exhibition celebrating 40 years of his work at the Villa Rot Museum in Germany, with his works permanently collected by institutions such as the German Bundestag, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Singen, the German Embassy in Argentina, Deutsche Bank, private museums Kunstwerk, and Museum Ritter, among others.
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Yang Mao-Ling
（Taiwan, b.1953）
Yang Mao-Lin (Taiwan, b. 1953) was born in Changhua, Taiwan, and currently lives and works in Taipei. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Chinese Culture University. Yang is a pivotal figure in contemporary Taiwanese art, rising to prominence in the 1980s. His early works were known for challenging political and social authority, breaking taboos, and using bold visual language to reflect the societal changes before and after Taiwan’s martial law was lifted. In the 1990s, his artistic focus shifted from political activism to exploring history and culture. His iconic “MADE IN TAIWAN” series appropriates international brand logos to examine Taiwan's cultural identity and sense of self. After 2000, Yang expanded into three-dimensional works, adopting a cartoonish style and the concept of “cultural hybridity” to portray the interaction and fusion of local and foreign cultures. His art emphasizes the dynamic tension between diverse cultural elements. Yang’s works are permanently collected by institutions such as Denver Art Museum (Denver, USA), Long Museum (Shanghai, China), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, and the Yageo Foundation for Art.
Riera i Aragó 里埃拉・伊．阿拉貢
(Spain , b. 1954)
Riera i Aragó (Spain, b. 1954), a graduate of the Sant Jordi Academy of Fine Arts, is one of Spain’s most internationally renowned contemporary artists. Based in Barcelona, his work explores the themes of “navigation between the sky and the deep sea,” employing symbols such as propellers, submarines, and airplanes to construct a poetic narrative of time, space, and life. His solo exhibitions have been hosted at prestigious European institutions, including the Heilbronn Municipal Museum in Germany, the Van Gogh Foundation in Arles, and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona. His works are included in esteemed permanent collections such as the Van Gogh Foundation, the Joan Miró Foundation, and Boeing in Chicago.
Cao Jigang
(China, b.1955）
Cao Jigang, was graduated from Material Expression Studio of Oil Painting Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, also was a professor at Foundation Year Program Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Currently living, working in Beijing, China, and exhibiting widely in museums and curated exhibitions. Cao Jigang received the Silver Prize in The National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1999. His work is included in public collection including The National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum and New Hall of China International Exhibition Center in Beijing.
Carol Prusa
(USA, b. 1956）
Carol Prusa (USA, b.1956), a graduate of Drake University with a Master degree in painting, currently resides and works in North Carolina, USA. Prusa inherits the silverpoint drawing technique from the Renaissance period, delving into astrophysics to interpret the chaotic interactions of cosmic evolution. Through the meticulous and refined grayscale of silverpoint, Prusa intricately incorporates sculpture forms, portraying the beauty of cosmic anomalies, and has gained recognition for her unique artistic expression. She has received the SECAC Artistic Achievement Award and has been invited to exhibit at the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her works are featured in several silverpoint history books, permanently housed in over a dozen museums across the United States, including the Perez Museum of Art in Miami, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the Telfair Museums. She has held major solo exhibitions at various institutions, including the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Norton Museum of Art.
Nick Veasey
(UK, b. 1962)
Nick Veasey (UK, b.1962) lives and works in Kent, UK, working primarily with radiography to create his images X-ray images. Through the unique penetration of the X-ray process, Nick Veasey strips back the layers to show what lies beneath the surface, revealing the inner workings behind the subjects facade, playfully and mischievously exploring the essence of objects and human inner desire. Veasey’s worldwide recognition includes; imagery for the front cover of TIME magazine, recent collaborations with Alexander McQueen SS23 and the Victoria and Albert Museum "Balenciaga: shaping fashion" exhibition, a large-scale retrospective at the renowned Fotografiska museum in Sweden, visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Swedish royalty. Recent shows include “X-ray Men” at the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art and “APMA chapter 3” at the Amorepacific Museum of Art. Permanently collected in the V&A Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the US, the BMW Museum in Germany, the National Science and Media Museum in the UK, and the Museum of Applied Arts and Design in Switzerland, important collaborations with international brands like Louis Vuitton, United Airlines, Balenciaga, and more.
Bryan Ida
(USA, b.1963)
Bryan．Ida is an American artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles. As a master mixing acrylic paints, epoxy and polyester, Ida shows his talent by applying unique material on forming abstract landscapes as a great play of color, light and composition. His work has been featured in dozens of museums. Notable recent shows are at Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Riverside Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. His works is currently in Microsoft Corporate collection and Genencor International collection.
Marck
(Switzerland, b. 1964）
Marck (Switzerland, b. 1964), a contemporary Swiss artist renowned for Video Sculpture, currently lives and works in Zurich. Marck's unconventional journey led him to enter a prestigious art school at a young age, only to leave due to the inability to tolerate formal education. Subsequently, he engaged in diverse occupations, including auto dismantling, mechanical electrician, rock singer, and tech installation design. Marck's unique life experiences transcend the imagination of conventional academy-trained artists, manifesting in his self-created video sculpture expressions, addressing societal issues through themes of frames, women, viewing, and interaction. in 2019 he was honored with the International Culture Award by Academia Culturale Internazionale Cartagine in Italy. His works have been showcased internationally and collected by significant museums including La Maison Rouge in Paris, St. Petersburg Contemporary Art Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Istanbul Modern, and the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media.
Pascal Dombis
(Frence, b. 1965)
Pascal Dombis (France, b.1965), a Paris-based visual artist who focuses as much on language as on perception. He is noted for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules. It was in the early 90s, while finishing his studies in Boston, that he encountered digital artistic tools, prompting a transition from painting to algorithms upon returning to France. Since then, he has created environments marked by excess, repetition and the unpredictability of technological processes, in which he aims to engage the viewers by questioning perception in relation to space, time and language. He develops multi-referential works which play with spatial environments and promote multiple interpretations. Recent exhibitions include Artists & Robots at the Grand Palais in Paris (2018), Cybernetic Consciousness at Itaú cultural in São Paulo (2017) and the Venice Biennale (2013). In 2020, he achieved the creation of a permanent public artwork, Double Connection, nearly one hundred metres long in the centre of Shanghai. In 2022, he got a monographic exhibition Post-Digital at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sorocaba in Brazil.
Thierry Feuz
(Swiss, b. 1968)
Graduated from Geneva University of Art and Design (Haute École d'Art et de Design), Feuz currently lives and works in Geneva. In his artistic realm, art, science, and philosophy converge as he explores the universal meaning of "existence" and presents unseen realms through his unique painting techniques. Thierry Feuz's works have been collected by significant institutions and museums, including Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel, Singapore Art Foundation, UBS Bank, Saks Fifth Avenue in the United States, as well as the Breeze Crop. and E.Sun Commercial Bank, among other corporate collections.
Sven Drühl
(Germany, b. 1968）
Sven Drühl currently lives and works in Berlin. He studied both in art and mathematics. With a PhD in art theory, he is also an author and editor of publications on contemporary art. Conceptually, Sven Drühl dissects visual shapes and types taken from every era from Romanticism to the present day, re-mounting them and combining them with his own motifs. Drühl reacts to the crisis of expression in post-modern painting with these transformed citations, but has purposefully not ceased to paint. His exploration of art history and his continual questioning of painting as a medium are at the heart of his oeuvre. He became known through his compilations of famous landscape paintings and had been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia and the United States including the St. Matthäuskirche, Berlin, Museum Villa-Rot, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Kallman-Museum, Ismaning, Museum Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe. His work is in collection of Berlinische Galerie -Museum für moderne Kunst, Berlin, Allianz Forum, Deutsche Bank, E.ON Art Collection, Düsseldorf, Collection Philara, Düsseldorf.
Susanne Kühn
(Germany , b. 1969)
Born in Leipzig, Germany, Susanne Kühn currently lives and works in Freiburg. She studied painting and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, as well as at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College in New York, and was awarded the Radcliffe Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Currently, she teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Known for her unique fusion of realism, surrealism, and abstraction, Kühn’s works are dominated by exaggerated plants and fantastical flora juxtaposed with architectural or abstract geometric forms. Her art subtly balances humor with serious themes, exploring the tension between nature and constructed spaces. Her work is included in permanent collections including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), Museum Frieder Burda (Germany), Zabludowicz Art Trust (UK), Schwartz Art Collection of Harvard University (USA), UBS Art Collection, and Deutschen Bundesbank...etc.
Ruprecht von Kaufmann
(Germany , b. 1974)
Ruprecht von Kaufmann Born in Munich, Germany, and a graduate of the BFA Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, Kaufmann has been associated with prestigious institutions like Berlin University of the Arts, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. Currently residing and working in Berlin, he is recognized as a prominent visual narrative artist. As an artist focusing on graphic storytelling, Kaufmann explores various facets of human experience through the visual language of contemporary painting. His work showcases critical narratives and parallel realms of reality. Exhibiting in major European cities such as London, Berlin, Stuttgart, Oslo, and New York, his pieces have found a permanent place in renowned collections, including those of the Hort Family in New York, Germany's Sammlung Philara Museum, and the National Bank of Germany in Frankfurt.
Chang Ling
（Taiwan, b. 1975）
Chang Ling (Taiwan, b. 1975) was born in Hualien, Taiwan, and currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds a Master’s degree from L'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he studied under Christian Boltanski, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, and Jean-Marc Bustamante. Chang Ling is deeply influenced by political, economic, and cultural issues. After returning to Taiwan in 2005, he developed a unique style centered around "human" as the starting point, initiating the six-year-long “Pork Belly” series. Chang Ling's creative language is layered, using the collision between flesh and culture to express dark humor and whimsical aesthetics. After 2010, his “Illusion Society” series explored the distortion and neglect of history and daily life, while responding to social issues. His recent “War Preparation” series directly addresses global concerns such as the Russia-Ukraine war and Taiwan's security, symbolizing "preparatory actions" and reorganizing his creative language accordingly. Chang Ling's works combine documentary elements with strong social concern, exploring the current sense of crisis in the world and the insecurity within human nature. His works are permanently collected by institutions such as Salon de Montrouge (France), White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Jan Kaláb
（Czech Republic，b. 1978）
Jan Kaláb graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, and currently lives and works in Prague. As a pioneer of Czech graffiti art, Jan Kaláb has been constantly forging a path as a non- traditional artist. He transitioned from street graffiti into pure white spaces, starting with points and developing them into circular transformations and 3D sculptures, condensing the exuberance of the outdoors onto geometrically distorted canvases. He represented the Czech Republic at the Shanghai World Expo in the Czech Pavilion, and his works are held in collections at The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML), National Art Museum of Brazil, Deji Art Museum in China, Daejeon Museum of Art in South Korea, and cooperate with numerous international luxury brands including Dior and Tiffany.
Ramiro Smith Estrada
（Argentina, b.1984)
Ramiro Smith Estrada, 1984, lives and works in Buenos Aires. He pursued Engraving as a career at Universidad del Museo Social Argentino in 2007. He was selected to be displayed at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in the field of Engraving in 2010 and 2013, and to the Williams Award in 2012. In 2014 he was selected to attend the Contemporary Artistic Practices clinic (PAC, for its initials in Spanish) conducted by Gachi Prieto Gallery and delivered by renowned artists and professors Eduardo Stupia, Rodrigo Alonso, Rafael Cippoletti and Andres Wassiman. The same year he took part of a four-Argentinian-artist showing exhibition at VICE Gallery in the context of Art Basel Miami Beach. In 2015 he participated in an art residency program at LaVallee in Brussels, Belgium.
