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 …