Hong Kong, July 10 – August 5, 2016, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Yet another hike up into the mountains of CUHK, this time for the MFA exhibition. Same as the prior BA exhibition, also this show spanned two locations – the CUHK Museum and the studio spaces on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of the Cheng Ming…
Hong Kong, May 28 – July 22, 2016, http://www.oneaspace.org.hk/ The definition of collecting has been left very open by the curators (Enoch Cheung 長康生 / Jeff Leung 梁展峰) of this exhibition. It could be anything from a “real” collection of artworks to a random grouping of material leftovers, implying the meaning as it is used…
Hong Kong, July 2 – July 30, 2016, https://www.facebook.com/amspacehk/ Three artists, showing three works. Chen Tong 陳侗showing crude quick drawings of Hong Kong’s urban corners, conceptually – allegedly – held together by a reference to a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Szelit Cheung 張施烈 showing very small and delicate pencil drawings – copies of photographs of…
Hong Kong, July 8 – August 20, 2016 A small exhibition by the youngest generation of Hong Kong artists: artist collective Brainrental 大腦出租, Elvis Yip Kin Bon 葉建邦 and Joyce Lung Yuet Ching 龍悅程. As the title suggests, the inspirations reflected in the show came from the small things in the artist’s life: Small to…
Hong Kong, June 11 – August 21, 2016, http:// www.para-site.org.hk The show surveyed Chinese art of the last two decades that stood on the sidelines of the official (art market) narrative of political pop and cynical realism. The artworks presented in the show link to the everyday directly, circumventing stereotypical pop imagery and instead telling…
Hong Kong, July 2 – 11, 2016, http://www.connectingspaces.ch/ The exhibition consisted of a combination of photos of trash collected around Hong Kong and actual objects dug out from the trash. Mostly things were found on the beaches: bottle caps, parts of plastic dolls, lighters, etc. The artist collective (from Mexico) seemed to have attempted a…
Hong Kong, May 27 – September 3, 2016, http://www.massimodecarlo.com Massimo De Carlo (MDC) is a new gallery of Milano fame now occupying one half of the 3F Pedder Building space that used to belong to Ben Brown Gallery before. It is therefore somehow fitting that the exhibition presents late work of Günter Förg whose early…
Hong Kong, May 27 – August 13, 2016, http://www.gagosian.com For this show Gagosian Hong Kong removed all partitions. Only one row of mid-size drawn paintings (by a sculptor) was present. On the shorter ends of the room, two slightly larger canvases were placed, titled “Fathers Ghost I (astronaut)” and “Fathers Ghost III (dancer).” Other canvases…
Hong Kong, May 12 – June 30, 2016, http://www.pearllam.com One cannot but think of Francis Bacon the painter when looking at images of Micallef’s paintings. They are portraits, but anonymized and presented as a strange thick mash of skin-tone colors, hinting at the energy of a living body without freezing it in time. Looking at…
Hong Kong, June 4 – 29, 2016, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Hou Chun Ming 侯俊明 is a well-known artist from Taiwan who represented the country at the Venice Biennale twice. He is best known for his woodcuts touching on political and personal topics. In the show at CUHK he presented a site-specific iteration of his Asian Father Interview…