Ruth Asawa and Scott Kahn at David Zwirner Hong Kong
Ruth Asawa: Doing Is Living /Scott Kahn: Once in a Blue Moon / November 19, 2024 – February 22, 2025Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 19, 5pm – 7pm David Zwirner5-6/F, H Queen’s 80 Queen’s Road CentralCentral, Hong KongTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm+852 21195900 Ruth Asawa: Doing Is Living David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013). Relentlessly experimental across a range of mediums, the artist is known for her works built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex compositions. The artist moved effortlessly between abstract and figurative registers in both two and three dimensions, creating a vast and varied oeuvre that, despite its visual heterogeneity, reflects above all her belief in the total integration of artistic practice and family life. The first solo presentation of Asawa’s work in greater China, the exhibition provides an overview of the artist’s wide-ranging practice, focusing in particular on her affinity for the natural world, which in turn provided a constant source of inspiration in her art. Scott Kahn: Once in a …
