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Bram Bogart at White Cube Hong Kong

Bram Bogart /Signs /Nov 24, 2023 – Jan 6, 2024 /Opening: Thursday, Nov 23, 6pm – 8pm / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present the first exhibition in Asia of the late Dutch-born Belgian artist Bram Bogart (1921–2012). Drawing from across his extensive career, the exhibition pays particular attention to Bogart’s unique exploration of paint as sensorial, sculptural matter, showing works made between 1952 to 2009. During his life, Bogart became known for his dense, object-like paintings. Fusing gesture with substance, sensual colour with minimal form, he elided the mediums of painting and sculpture to pursue his own singular path. The title of the exhibition derives from the artist’s prolific ‘signs’ series, produced from the late-1950s onwards and prevalent throughout his career. Reducing the figurative to the schematic, these works comprise shapes embedded within thick painted surfaces, and assert Bogart’s belief that ‘everything in nature, in a simplified form, leads back to the sign: rectangle, square, cross, circle, etc. …

Zhang Wenzhi & Zheng Haozhong at Blindspot Gallery

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Zhang Wenzhi: Tiger in Mountains, Deer at Ocean /Zheng Haozhong: Melodic Variations /Curator: Leo Li Chen /Nov 28, 2023 – Jan 13, 2024 /Opening: Saturday, Nov 25, 4pm – 6.30pm /In Conversation (in Mandarin): Zhang Wenzhi and Leo Li Chen, 5pm – 6pm / Blindspot Gallery 15/F Po Chai Industrial Building 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong +852 2517 6238 Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pm blindspotgallery.com Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present the duo solo exhibition Zhang Wenzhi: Tiger in Mountains, Deer at Ocean and Zheng Haozhong: Melodic Variations, curated by Leo Li Chen, showcasing the recent paintings of two Mainland Chinese artists. Zhang Wenzhi (b. 1993, Dalian, China) is deeply influenced by the colonial history of the Japanese and Russian Empire in his hometown in Northeast China. The cultural history of the region dating to the early 20th century and the subsequent industrialization and modernization of the area are fundamental to Zhang’s practice. He creates ink paintings that incorporate archival materials, exploring the enduring presence of histories, overshadowed by shifts in power and urbanization, in the region’s collective cultural memory. Zheng Haozhong …

Angel Vergara at Axel Vervoordt Gallery

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Angel Vergara /Acts & Paintings, Hong Kong /Nov 18, 2023 – Mar 16, 2024 /Opening: Saturday, Nov 18, 1pm – 7pm /Artist Performance with Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Nov 18, 3 pm – 3:30 pm / Axel Vervoordt Gallery21/F, Coda Designer Centre62 Wong Chuk Hang RoadEntrance via Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang+852 2503 2220Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm axel-vervoordt.com Painting is often considered a static art form. A completed canvas with dry paint departs an artist’s creative studio to be seen by the public. For Angel Vergara, the opposite is true. To paint is to act. It’s not a passive practice, it’s an active one. Throughout his long oeuvre, painting has been a form of constant interaction with visible and invisible forces. By bringing his canvases into the world—out of the studio’s confined, safe walls—he allows them to absorb the environment, continuously changing throughout. For this exhibition, Vergara worked in Hong Kong. As Straatman, he ventured into the city’s natural surroundings, and later, into the metropole’s lively core. These interventions are named “Acts & Paintings”, which …

Neo Rauch at David Zwirner Hong Kong

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Neo Rauch /Field Signs /Nov 16, 2023 – Feb 24, 2024 / Opening Reception: Thursday, Nov 16, 5pm – 7pmDiscusion led by Dr Shen Qilan: Friday, Nov 17, 5pm – 6pmThe talk will be conducted in English. Please register at this link. David Zwirner5-6/F, H Queen’s 80 Queen’s Road CentralCentral, Hong KongTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm+852 21195900 davidzwirner.com David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by German artist Neo Rauch at its Hong Kong location. Widely celebrated as one of the most influential figurative painters working today, Rauch is known for richly colored and elaborate paintings that contain a repertoire of invented characters, settings, objects, and motifs. At once realistic and familiar, enigmatic and inscrutable, his paintings often hint at broader narratives and histories—seemingly reconnecting with the artistic traditions of realism—yet they are dreamlike and frequently contain disparate and overlapping spaces and forms. Though his art is highly refined and executed with considerable technical skill, Rauch himself stresses the intuitive, deeply personal nature of how he works. As the artist notes, “My process is far less …

Katie Graham at Major Pop Gallery

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Katie GrahamA Deep SenseNov 9 – 19, 2023 Major Pop GalleryG/F, 54 Sai StreetSheung Wan, Hong Kong +852 6639 9903Tuesday – Sunday, 1pm – 7pm @bykatiegraham.com Katie Graham’s paintings made of silk, ink, linen and thread, have a deep sense of layered and tactile artistry. Each fabric has a story and a sense of place. In a world of machines and mass production Katie’s work celebrates the beauty and value of human touch. With colour, form and texture she invites us to celebrate this deep sense and its significance in connecting with people and places. Light and dark patterns, inspired by nature, are revealed with layered markings on the silk surfaces. On top of each, a woven thread, sometimes in bold bright red, clearly defines a new line to draw the eyes’ attention. As an audience, we are stitched inside the bounds of each canvas and the only way to look is inward. By combining the gestural movements of traditional calligraphy with the compositional structure of Western abstract painting, Katie is writing an indecipherable journey. The central …

Asia Art Archive annual fundraiser auction

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aaa2023auction.com Asia Art Archive (AAA)’s 2023 Annual Fundraiser features an auction of over 55 works, generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. Following the recent expansion of its library, Asia Art Archive continues to grow its Collections, research, and programmes with a renewed focus and broader reach. The fundraiser provides a vital source of funding to support free public access to these resources on the histories of contemporary art in Asia. The works are now available for bidding online at www.aaa2023auction.com until 10 November. This year’s auction features work by artists including Rosamond Brown, Michele Chu, Kary Kwok, Shilpa Gupta, Maia Ruth Lee, Angel Otero, Pan Jian, Ellen Pau, Neo Rauch, Sudarshan Shetty, Wang Dongling, and more. In 2023, Asia Art Archive develops new Collections and research projects in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and more. With the Hong Kong Room established as a permanent space in AAA’s library, a series of projects focused on the city’s contemporary art history will commence in late 2023. One of the projects is “Recalling Disappearance: Hong …

Andrew Eldon at Blue Lotus Gallery

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Andrew Eldon /Tribe / Oct 27 – Nov 12, 2023 /Artist talk: Saturday, Nov 4, 11am – 12.30pm / Blue Lotus Gallery G/F, 28 Pound LaneSheung Wan, Hong Kong +852 5590 3229 Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm bluelotus–gallery.com The gallery is pleased to present an intimate photographic exhibition by Andrew Eldon titled Tribe. This thought-provoking series offers a rare glimpse into the world of the Suri, a semi-nomadic tribe inhabiting the remote Omo Valley of Ethiopia. Through vivid portraits and cultural scenes, Eldon’s lens captures the grace and splendor of Suri life and traditions before they are irrevocably altered by modernisation. His images reveal the tribe’s distinctive practices of body modification and adornment. Women wear large clay lip plates and both men and women engage in ritual body scarring—testaments to the Suri’s unique concepts of beauty and identity. Eldon’s photographs also unveil the Suri’s elaborate floral headdresses and face painting, artful preparations usually reserved for special occasions. Beyond aesthetics, the exhibition invites viewers to understand the daily rhythms and values of Suri life. Their semi-nomadic pastoral existence revolves around …

Maria Hassabi at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror /Oct 13 – Nov 26, 2023 / JC ContemporaryTai Kwun10 Hollywood Road Central, Hong KongTue – Sun, 11am – 7pm taikwun.hk One of the leading figures of live art, the artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi (b. Cyprus) has long pioneered live installations which explore the relations that the human figure has with the still image and the sculptural object, while disrupting our sense of time. Her works bring the performing body into museums, theatres, and public spaces, shifting the boundaries between visitors and performers, subjects and objects. I’ll Be Your Mirror is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia, bringing together her practice of choreography, sound, sculpture, photography and painting, in two connected live installations. In this exhibition, Hassabi uses her signature choreographic style, defined by sculptural physicality, stillness, and quietness, to confront the notion of one’s own image through a gold scheme of reflections. Proposing an alternative to the way we perceive ourselves and those around us, she invites viewers to question the fluidity of an image, one that is similar to …

Hong Kong’s Forgotten Masters at Ping Pong Gintonería

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Antonio Casadei, Brian Brake, Cheung Yee, Douglas Bland, Arthur Hacker, King of Kowloon (Tsang Tsou Choi), Luis Chan, Antonio Mak Hin-yeung, Yau Leung / Oct 13, 2023 – Jan 28, 2024 / Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035 6197 Tuesday – Sunday, 6pm – 10pm pingpong129art.com Hong Kong’s Forgotten Masters focuses on the critical contributions of departed artists who had a significant influence on Hong Kong’s art scene from the 1960s to 90s, featuring an enriching collection of over 20 paintings and sculptures. Additionally, it will provide a thoughtful compilation of archival material, casting a retrospective lens on an era of Hong Kong’s art history that was more subdued, in contrast to the vibrant, bustling scene of the present day. Amid Hong Kong’s once dormant art ecology, these largely overlooked artists thrived in a time of minimal cultural infrastructure and scarce patronage. Their struggle took place in a markedly different Hong Kong, devoid of the rich private and public support we see for artists today. Their work bears testament to their resilience in …

Lin Guocheng in conversation with Dr. Susan L. Beningson

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Ink in Our Modern TimesTalk will be bilingual in English and Chinese Wednesday, Sep 27, 20236pm – 7pmRSVP assistant@alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts21/F Lyndhurst Tower1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central Hong Kong+852 2526 1091Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm Also live-streamed on Instagram @alisanfinearts alisan.com.hk Alisan Fine Arts is excited to announce two prominent figures in the contemporary art scene: contemporary ink artist Lin Guocheng and Dr. Susan L. Beningson, curator and professor, will engage in a face-to-face conversation at the Central gallery, discussing the topic “Ink in Our Modern Times” on how popular culture, such as ukiyo-e prints, cinema and novels, transforms landscape paintings and their meanings, and on the inspiration Lin draws from ancient totem in his works. This event is as part of the current exhibition Lin Guocheng: A Dance of Landscapes and Civilisation. Notably, Dr. Beningson has travelled from New York to participate in this special event. Dr. Susan L. Beningson is an independent curator and Professor of Asian Art history at New York University. Her forthcoming exhibition, the retrospective Xu Bing: Word Alchemy, will open at Asia Society Texas (AST) …