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Douglas Bland at Ping Pong Gintonería 

Douglas Bland /Reflections /Mar 10 – Jul 16, 2025 / Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035 6197 Tuesday – Sunday, 6pm – 10pm pingpong129art.com Ping Pong Gintonería is delighted to present Reflections, a retrospective of the late artist Douglas Bland (1923-75). This marks the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in Hong Kong since 1979, offering a rare opportunity to rediscover one of the most innovative yet overlooked figures in Hong Kong’s 20th-century art history. Bland, a British-born artist who made Hong Kong his home in 1947, was a pioneer in the fusion of Chinese and western art traditions. This exhibition features a collection of his paintings, including works from his important Reflections series, showcasing his relentless pursuit of Asian modernism. It will also highlight rarely seen archival material, including photos of his lost large-scale murals for the Hong Kong Hilton in the early 1960s. Bland’s work, once celebrated by critics and collectors alike, has largely faded from public view since his untimely death in 1975. However, his legacy as “the …