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Misty Clouds, Scattered Colours Edouard Malingue Gallery Liverpool Community Cinema Sep 28 – 30 Christie Lee While better known as the birthplace of The Beatles and for rowdy weekend party nights, Liverpool is also home to the UK’s oldest Chinese diaspora, the majority of whose ancestors arrived in the late 19th century, after Alfred Holt and Company established its first direct steamship link to China. They suffered from decades of racism, segregation and, in the worst case scenario, repatriation. So it’s apt that Edouard Malingue Gallery chose to stage Misty Clouds, Scattered Colours, a three-day moving-image programme intended to dismantle notions of the other, in the heart of the city. Taking its title from Chinese literary classic Journey to the West, a Ming dynasty tale of a group of pilgrims who overcome many challenges and hardships to attain enlightenment, its 15 works were screened over three nights, focusing on the themes of self, space and nation respectively. While diverse in subject matter and style, they came together to provide a heady investigation into themes of history, power and identity. …

Art for the People

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Building a future audience: why should people care about your art? By Vivienne Chow Most people hate the truth – and this is articularly true in the art world. At both the recent Museum Forum staged by the Maritime Museum and the annual Cultural Leadership Summit organised by the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, questions were raised regarding building a future audience. The government, the media and the education sector were all blamed for not providing an environment that allows more youngsters and other members of the public to experience arts and culture. The question that wasn’t raised was whether artists, exhibition organisers, curators and promoters bear responsibility for building and attracting an audience. It raises the further question of why people should care about art in the first place. This is an incredibly uncomfortable question to ask; it sounds like a blatant attack on the culture of artistic excellence art professionals strive to pursue. It suggests that the shows they present, be they visual or performing arts, are so irrelevant that only a small percentage of the population are interested in …

Gladys Nistor

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Gladys Nistor Nov 9 – Jan 6 Opening: Thursday, Nov 9, 6 – 8.30pm Site-specific, bodiless sculptures float in space, challenging perception. The works by the Argentinian artist boldly create the illusion of form and glow with innovative vitality. Puerta Roja 1/F Soho 189 Art Lane 189 Queens Road West Sheung Wan T (852) 2803 0332 Email Web Tue–Sat 11am – 7pm Founded in in 2010 by Adriana Alvarez-Nichol, Puerta Roja promotes established and emerging contemporary artists as the only gallery to specialise in Latin American and Spanish art in the region. Located at art district SOHO 189 Art Lane, the gallery prides itself on having both a strong influence in the development of the local contemporary art scene and a growing footprint across Asia-Pacific.

C. Spencer Yeh

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Dec 9 – Feb 10 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9 Solo show. Empty Gallery 18th & 19th Floor Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan T (852) 2563 3396 Email Web Tu-Sa 11am to 7pm Founded by Stephen Cheng, Empty Gallery showcases both established and emerging artists alongside a program of pioneering multimedia commissions, performances and music. With a special commitment to ephemeral, time-based and non-object-oriented practices, Empty Gallery is committed to fostering conversation across cultural, geographic, and medium-specific boundaries while serving as a regional hub for the flourishing East Asian art scene. Represented artists Amit Desai Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon Tishan Hsu Hans-Henning Korb Takashi Makino Other Artists Xavier Cha Takeshi Murata Catherine Christer Hennix Susanne Winterling C. Spencer Yeh Art Fairs 2018 The Armory Show, New York, March 2018 Frieze, New York, May 2018

J. Park

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Nov 15 – Jan 7 Opening: Tuesday, Nov 14, 6 – 8pm The first solo exhibition of artist at the Hong Kong gallery, Embodiment includes recent paintings, sculpture as well as two video installations. Ben Brown Fine Arts 303 Pedder Building 12 Pedder Street, Central T (852)2522 9600 Email Web Mo-Sa 11am – 7pm Ben Brown Fine Arts opened its first location on Cork Street in the heart of Mayfair, London, in 2004. The gallery has prominently positioned itself on the contemporary art scene with the sole UK representation of artists such as Ron Arad, Tony Bevan, Ori Gersht, Candida Höfer, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, Heinz Mack, Vik Muniz, Gavin Turk and Not Vital. Also renowned for its strong expertise in 20th century Italian art, the gallery has been exhibiting the work of Alighiero Boetti and Lucio Fontana, amongst others, since its inception. In 2008, Ben Brown Fine Arts opened a new exhibition space on Brook’s Mews, also in Mayfair, designed by architect Alexander Maybank. The office and viewing room are conveniently located across from the gallery space. In …

Tai Xiangzhou, Zhang Yirong

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Sep 13 – Oct 21 Opening: Wednesday, Sep 13, 6 – 8pm Alisan Fine Arts (Central) The gallery is proud to showcase a joint exhibition of the two celebrated young ink artists. The show features Tai’s ethereal landscape paintings and Zhang’s larger than life meticulous paintings of flowers and butterflies in painstaking detail. While Zhang’s works were featured in Beyond the Jade Terrace, a group exhibition organized by the gallery in 2014 for four young women Chinese ink artists, this is the first time we will be exhibiting Tai’s paintings. 21/F Lyndhurst Tower 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central T (852) 2526 1091 Email Web Mo-Sa 10:30 am to 5:30 pm Alisan Fine Arts was founded in 1981. Over the years it has organised more than 100 exhibitions for Chinese artists living around the world. Through these exhibitions and other events, Alisan has brought to Hong Kong and other parts of Asia established international Chinese Artists including Zao Wouki, Chu Teh Chun, Gao Xingjian, Chao Chung Hsiang, John Way and Fay Ming, Walasse Ting and Hsiao Chin. …

Mr.

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Sep 14 – Oct 21 Opening: Tuesday, Sep 14, 6–8pm Floating in the Air in the Vicinity of a Convenience Store is the first exhibition at the Hong Kong gallery by Mr. (b. 1969, Cupa, Japan). It features recent paintings, a sculpture and a series of drawings. Lehmann Maupin 4th Floor, Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central T (852) 2530 0025 Email Web Tu-Fr 10am to 7pm, Sa 11am to 7pm Since its establishment nearly two decades ago Lehmann Maupin has identified and cultivated the careers of an international roster of visionary and historically significant artists. The gallery has garnered a reputation for supporting artists working across disciplines and with new and challenging forms of creative expression; artists whose work has had a lasting impact on contemporary art and culture. Lehmann Maupin has given some of contemporary art’s most highly respected artists their first one-person exhibitions in New York, including Anya Gallaccio, Shirazeh Houshiary, Klara Kristalova, Liu Wei, Do Ho Suh, Juergen Teller, and Adriana Varejão. In addition, the gallery has highlighted emerging talents, such as Mickalene Thomas, Hernan …

Wang Gongxin

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Sep 6 – Nov 11 The gallery is pleased to present Rotation, a solo exhibition by Chinese multimedia artist Wang Gongxin – his first in Hong Kong. This is the first presentation of the artist’s early installation works, as well as new works. The exhibition presents artworks from the period immediately preceding Wang’s first uses of video and projection in 1996. Most of the exhibited works were originally conceived of or created between 1993 and 1996, a period of fervent artistic experimentation inseparable from Wang’s later video practice. Born in 1960 in Beijing, Wang is a pioneering media artist, being one of the first in China to use digital editing. He was also, in 2001, the founder of Loft, the earliest media art centre in China. Wang began his career as a painter, but his experiences and in particular the art education he received in the US between the late 1980s and early 1990s encouraged him to broaden his artistic language, evidence of the energy and vitality within his practice. White Cube 50 Connaught Road, Central …

Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi, Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo

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Sep 6 – 28 Opening: Tuesday, Sep 5, 6 – 8pm The gallery is pleased to present a duo exhibition of Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi (Indonesia, 1985) and Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo (Indonesia, 1978) as part of an ongoing collaboration with ROH Projects, Jakarta. Following the gallery’s group show at ROH Projects in February, this reciprocal exhibition continues to develop greater dialogue with artists in Indonesia and the wider Asian Pacific region. Edouard Malingue Gallery Sixth Floor, 33 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong T (852) 2810 0317 Email Web Mo-Sa 10am to 7pm Edouard Malingue Gallery was founded in Hong Kong in 2010 to build a critical dialogue between Asian and international contemporary artists, both emerging and established, who combine aesthetic concern with conceptual enquiry, and work across different disciplines from video and installation to painting and sound. In 2016 the gallery opened a second space in Shanghai, creating a wider platform of exchange for its roster of artists. In addition to presenting dynamic solo exhibitions, the gallery pushes the boundaries of art in public spaces and stimulates artistic discourse through collaborations with curators worldwide. Represented artists: …

Xia Xiaowan, Chen Hui

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Aug 31 – Sep 27 Opening: Thursday, August 31, 6 – 8pm The gallery is proud to announce Aura, a duo exhibition that will showcase eleven works by the two artists since 2011. Tang Contemporary Art 19/F of 18 On Lan Street, Central (852) 2682 8289 Email Web Tu-Sa 11am to 7pm Tang Contemporary Art is a Hong Kong, Beijing and Bangkok-based art gallery, representing some leading key figures in Contemporary Chinese art. As one of the most critically driven exhibition spaces in Asia, Tang Contemporary Art is fully committed to promote local and international art, and encourage the dynamic exchange between artists and audiences. Represented artists: Ai Weiwei Liu Xiaodong Wang Du Guo Wei Ling Jian Peng Yu & Sun Yuan Vasan Sitthiket Preeyachanok Ketsuwan Chatchai Suphin