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Lee Jin Woo at White Cube Hong Kong

Lee Jin Woo /Inside the White Cube: Lee Jin Woo /Jun 1 – Sep 7, 2024 / 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 a solo exhibition by Korean artist Lee Jin Woo, featuring new paintings and works on paper. Born in Korea in 1959, this Paris-based artist creates work in which the method of its making is integral to its comprehension. The process commences with the burning of wood to create charcoal and ash, which is then overlaid with hanji – a handmade Korean paper from mulberry tree bark. The surface is then pounded and scraped repeatedly with wire brushes to create abstract compositions of undulating light and shadow.  Referencing the legacy of Korean Dansaekhwa painting, Lee’s paintings share with the movement the emphasis on materiality and ‘repeatability’, whilst also defining a new visual language. His deep respect for traditional Korean materials, as well as the space this opens up for a new wave of Korean art, unites him with the leading father …

Louise Giovanelli at White Cube Hong Kong

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Louise GiovanelliHere on EarthMar 26 – May 18, 2024 White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube is pleased to present Louise Giovanelli’s first solo exhibition in the city. Louise Giovanelli’s (b.1993, London, UK) work considers the significance and history of painting as a system of representation. Titled Here on Earth, the exhibition debuts a new group of paintings in which the central female figure is doubled and repeated–frozen in a moment of ecstasy – exploring the tension between representation and materiality, figuration and abstraction. Working from found imagery drawn from a wide range of sources, the artist seeks to isolate narratively ambiguous moments. As she explains, ‘a painting should be the beginning of something. The best paintings are those that endure in your mind – because there’s this sense of mystery to them.’ Giovanelli’s first museum exhibition in China takes place concurrently at He Art Museum (HEM) from 23 March until 16 June 2024.

Léon Wuidar at White Cube Hong Kong

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Léon Wuidar / Jan 17 – Mar 16, 2024 / White Cube Hong Kong /50 Connaught Road, Central /Hong Kong /+852 2592 2000 /Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm / whitecube.com Marking the artist’s inaugural show in Asia, White Cube is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Léon Wuidar (b. 1938). Chronicling the artist’s remarkable six-decade career, the selection of paintings spans from the early 1960s to the present day, uniting Wuidar’s exuberant simplicities of form with his distinctive, exacting technical precision. Further illustrating the artist’s enduring experimentations with colour, line and composition, accompanying the paintings is a series of previously unseen works on paper, created by the artist in the 1990s. Click here for more information on the artist and the exhibition.

Bram Bogart at White Cube Hong Kong

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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. …

Julie Curtiss 朱莉·柯蒂斯

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Hair, both beautiful and abject, ornamental and beastly, is a semiotic system that holds a powerful attraction for French-born, Florida-based artist Julie Curtiss. Born and raised in Paris, Curtiss studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts and then at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden before making her way to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Arguably, the Chicago imagists of her alma mater, like Christina Ramberg – to whose work Curtiss’ is often compared – and her years working as a studio assistant to both Jeff Koons and Brian Donnelly (aka KAWS) have informed Curtiss’ aesthetic, with its vibrant colours, cartoonish figuration and smooth, skilfully rendered lines. It’s a highly stylised visual language that helped her work get noticed on Instagram and reach stratospheric heights of success in the art world. But unlike Kaws’ Happy Meal cartoons and figurines, Curtiss’ work is personal, a deep dive into the female psyche and femininity through Jungian archetypes. Bitter Apples, Curtiss’ first exhibition at White Cube Hong Kong, brings together works across varied media, including …

Julie Curtiss at White Cube Hong Kong

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Bitter Apples /Sep 21 – Nov 11, 2023 / White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com White Cube is pleased to present Julie Curtiss’ first exhibition in Greater China, opening in September. The presentation features painting, sculpture and works on paper, as well as Curtiss’ first film work, a Surrealist narrative incorporating sculptural props made by the artist. The new works feature birds, insects and lush, tropical plants influenced by Curtiss’ new studio location in Florida. Sparking parallels with art-historical depictions of Eden and Paradise, the motifs serve as fertile ground for the artist’s slyly humorous take on temptation, gender and sexuality. A new edition, made by traditional Japanese woodblock printing, has been created on the occasion of this show.

Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, Su Yu-Xin

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Inside the White Cube: New Moroism / White Cube / Hong Kong / May 31 – Sep 9, 2023 / By Christina Ko / Blurred lines are very much the theme at White Cube’s summer exhibition, Inside the White Cube: New Moroism. In the literal sense, it refers to the Moroism movement, which emerged in Japan in the 19th century and saw stark outlines replaced by vague or hazy delineations of spatial boundaries. In a more abstract sense, these blurred lines are cultural ones: the four artists contributing to the show are of Asian descent, but no longer live or have never lived in their respective ethnic homelands, and pay homage to their heritage through their work. As such, the painting-dominant show is both romantic and restrained, filled with imagination and longing through an exploration of the concept of home, as embodied in each artist’s practice. The gallery’s lower floor features three works by London-based Michael Ho, who was raised in a small town in the Netherlands, a so-called third-culture kid whose childhood was and …

New Moroism at White Cube Hong Kong

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Inside the White Cube: New Moroism /May 31 – 9 Sep, 2023 / White Cube Hong Kong /50 Connaught Road, Central /Hong Kong /+852 2592 2000 /Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm / whitecube.com White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present New Moroism, a group exhibition which brings together four artists who seek to expand the parameters and ideation of figuration in painting. Part of an emerging generation of artists whose roots are in Asia, Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai and Su Yu-Xin reflect a new approach and sensibility, responsive to trans-regional shifts and migration. Embracing the concept of ambiguity within their paintings, the artists each explore Moroism, an aesthetic paradigm which is derived from the ‘mōrōtai’ style (mōrō literally translated as ‘vague’ or ‘indistinct’) that emerged in Japan of the late Meiji era (1868–1912), also found as a pictorial intention originating in traditional Chinese painting theory. Determined by the artists’ shared East Asian heritage, the works in this exhibition are grounded in personal narrative. Chris Huen Sin Kan’s large-scale oil paintings feature a recurring cast of characters including his wife, son, daughter and dogs. …

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones at White Cube Hong Kong

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Deep Dive /Mar 22 – May 20, 2023 /Opening: Mar 21, 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 ‘Deep Dive’, a solo exhibition by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones and the artist’s first in the region. For this, the artist has created a new suite of paintings and delicate lithographs that address historical subjects – such as mythology, religion and the spectacle of ceremony – through the lens of the contemporary diaspora. As a British Nigerian living and working in Brooklyn, New York, his influences are wide ranging, and comprise African, American and European references. Grounded though the works are in the myth and culture of his own Yoruba heritage, Adeniyi-Jones also looks to the Black-American culture of his immediate surroundings, embracing both the similarities and differences between this lineage and his own. Executed in oil on canvas or in acrylic on board, the paintings feature near life-size figures in vibrant colours set against a background of foliage, making reference to …

Imi Knoebel at White Cube Hong Kong

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Green FlagsUntil Mar 11, 2023 White Cube Hong Kong50 Connaught Road, Central Hong Kong+852 2592 2000Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm whitecube.com In 1913, Russian artist Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) made what is widely regarded as modern art’s first entirely abstract work, the self-descriptively titled painting Black Square. As a student, German painter Imi Knoebel was inspired by Malevich’s theory of Suprematism, which rejected all representational imagery in favour of the ‘supremacy of pure artistic feeling’. When Knoebel joined Joseph Beuys’ class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1964, the young artist began his career-long exploration of the expressive potential of art’s fundamental building blocks – line, form, colour and material. Today, at 82, Knoebel creates an ever-evolving flow of nonobjective works. Ranging from geometric to freeform, from monochrome to multiple colours, they are inspired by his hands-on studio experiments rather than any overarching program. ‘When I am asked about what I think when I look at a painting’ Knoebel has said, ‘I can only answer that I don’t think at all; I look at it and can only take in the …