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Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong Celebrating 10th Anniversary

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Decade One: Chronolect /Dec 18, 2025 – Jan 31, 2026 / Jonas Burgert, Cai Lei, Heri Dono, Huang Yongping, Jigger Cruz, Leng Guangmin, Edgar Plans, Qin Qi, Wang Du, Xiyao Wang, Wu Yi, Yue Minjun, Yang Jiechang, Zhao Zhao, Zhu JinshiOpening: Thursday, Dec 18, 5pm – 7pmTang Contemporary Art Central10/F, H Queen’s80 Queen’s Road, CentralTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pmT +852 2682 8289 Etsu Egami, Hao Zecheng, Yoon Hyup, Kitti Narod, Jade Ching-yuk Ng, Alexander Skats, August Vilella, Meguru Yamaguchi, Yu Xuan, Nishi YukariOpening: Thursday, Dec 18, 4pm – 6pmTang Contemporary Art Wong Chuk HangUnit 2003-0820/F, Landmark South39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk HangTuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pmT +852 3703 9246 tangcontemporary.com Tang Contemporary Art is proud to announce to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our Hong Kong space, we are presenting a large-scale group exhibition Decade One: Chronolect. The exhibition’s title, Chronolect – a lexicon of time – captures the distinct artistic language developed over this inaugural decade. The exhibition aims to focus on the most precious gains in artistic practice—namely, “accumulation and growth”—connecting the iterative evolution of the artists’ works, the gallery’s and collectors’ explorations within the industry, and the …

Wang Du

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Post-Fetishism  Tang Contemporary, Hong Kong, Oct 1 – 29, 2016 By Elliat Albrecht At first glance they can make you blush. The fleshy, carnal texture of Wang Du’s works at Tang Contemporary is at once erotic and almost repulsive, like seeing the back of a stranger’s thighs up close. For his exhibition Post-Fetishism, the Chinese artist presents five recent charcoal drawings surrounded by pale silica frames implanted with thousands of individual synthetic hairs. The large-scale pictures are close-up views of contemporary fetishised objects: Apple headphones, stylish sunglasses, a cork from a 2004 French wine, a cigar cutter depicted in such large scale that it resembles a guillotine. On the floor are models of a child-size car, a Rimowa suitcase, a wonky skyscraper and an AK-47 made of a peach-coloured gel that gallerist Shasha Tittmann described as “similar to that of breast implants”, each as whiskered as the picture frames on the wall. They look as if they would wobble and shake if pushed. The works are numbered rather than named to draw attention away from the objects’ original functions. Born in 1956 …