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Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Tetsuo Mizù, Julie & Jesse, Kohei Kyomori 前川強、水島哲雄、Julie & Jesse、京森康平

Contours of Expression /Whitestone Gallery /Hong Kong /Aug 9 – Sep 20, 2025 /Ilaria Maria Sala / The Hong Kong branch of the Japanese-owned Whitestone Gallery has inaugurated its new Hong Kong space in Wong Chuk Hang with a group show, Contours of Expression. It features four artists: Tsuyoshi Maekawa, a member of the avant-garde Gutai Art Association group, which was active from 1954 to 1972; abstract painter Tetsuo Mizu, who passed away this January, at 80 years of age; Kohei Kyomori, born in 1985; and the Hong Kong and Jingdezhen-based ceramic artist duo Julie & Jesse – Swiss designer Julie Progin and American artist Jesse Mc Lin. Maekawa’s works date from the early 1960s to 2015 and are all variations of his signature jute/burlap cloth on canvas: using adhesive and paint, he shapes the cloth on the canvas so as to create a three-dimensional element. He adds paint either before shaping the cloth or after, creating abstract works that immediately recall the Gutai approach, with its bright colours and devotion to a process that …

Whitestone Gallery’s Asia Voyage: An Ongoing Journey

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whitestone–gallery.com After starting its artistic journey in 1967, Whitestone Gallery has steadily grown to become a renowned name in the art world. With a rich history of promoting contemporary art, Whitestone has never slowed the pace at which it grows and explores, driven by a passion for introducing exceptional art to global audiences. In 2017, the gallery expanded its footprint when Whitestone Gallery Taipei and Whitestone Ginza New Gallery opened their doors. Further strengthening its presence in Asia and providing exposure to artists from the region, Whitestone grew further in 2018 with the opening of Whitestone Gallery H Queen’s in Hong Kong, situated at one of the city’s most prestigious art addresses. During the Covid-19 pandemic, recognising the shift towards online platforms, Whitestone opened an online gallery, allowing art enthusiasts to access and purchase works remotely. Continuing its growth, Whitestone opened three additional spaces in 2023, in Beijing, Seoul and Singapore, representing yet another exciting chapter in its ongoing mission to connect artists, collectors and art enthusiasts worldwide. Whitestone Gallery Beijing is nestled within the vibrant …

Tang Kwong-san, Szelit Cheung, Tap Chan 鄧廣燊, 張施烈, 陳沁昕

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Space and Memory 空間與記憶 / Whitestone Gallery 香港白石畫廊 / Hong Kong / Aug 31 – Sep 30, 2021 / Christie Lee / Hong Kong provides interesting material to mull over ideas of space and memory. The city’s density means that every day there are legions of personal and collectives memories being made. But the city’s ultra-capitalist mindset means that the new often replaces old at blistering pace. In the past few years, there have been concerted efforts by various parties in society and politics to preserve, rub out or construct memories. Space and Memory, an exhibition of three Hong Kong artists at Whitestone Gallery curated by Aimee Man, examines memory’s role in place-making and identity construction. Although cast as a group exhibition, it feels like three individual exhibitions, all exploring the same theme, instead of an exhibition where works by the artists are knitted together by a focused narrative. At first glance, Tang Kwong-san’s works lean towards the personal. The first thing you see in the space might be ’96 7 14 (2020), a life-size painting of …

Donald Moffett at Whitestone Gallery

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NATURE CULT / May 18 – Jun 26, 2021 /Opening: Saturday, May 15, 2 – 6pm / Whitestone Gallery8/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road CentralCentral, Hong Kong http://www.whitestone-gallery.com/exhibitions Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present NATURE CULT, the first solo exhibition of American artist Donald Moffett in Asia. Coinciding with Art Central Hong Kong, Moffett’s exhibition highlights his recent works characterised by a provocative minimalism, glossy surfaces and uncanny forms exploring subjects on nature, the body and desire. The show at the gallery in H Queen’s will also feature works from across Moffett’s oeuvre, including He Kills Me, 1987; an iconic work by the artist made in New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. In the past two decades Moffett has developed a unique application of paint in which orifices and bristled surfaces invite implications of the human body, botanical and molecular forms, as well as bullet holes. The emergence of this extruded series marked a major shift in Moffett’s work and challenged traditional notions of painting. In Moffett’s recent NATURE CULT series, from which the show …

Ren Sihong at Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong

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Enlightenment Sep 5 – Oct 3, 2020Opening: Saturday, Sep 5, 4 – 7pm Whitestone Gallery 7- 8/F H Queen’s80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong Whitestone Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Ren Sihong, one of the most prominent Chinese artists who were born in the 1960s and have flourished since the late 1980s, significantly shaping China’s contemporary art history. The exhibition will showcase the artist’s works created in the last three years, the ‘Black and White’ series which started in 2017, ‘Value of Colors’, started in 2018, and ‘Spirit of Flowers’, started early this year during the pandemic period. Stepping away from his previous style, Ren has adopted an expressionist and abstract way of painting his recent works and hopes to enlighten the viewers through this intriguing energy. Born in 1967 in Hebei, Ren Sihong found his talent in painting when he was young, and therefore enrolled in Oil Painting Department in Hebei Normal University and later on continued his study in Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. After graduation, he …

Andreas Mühe 安德里亚斯·穆埃

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Pathos as Distance / By Diana d’Arenberg Parmanand / Shown at Whitestone Gallery in Hong Kong, Pathos as Distance by Andreas Mühe is a survey of the artist’s work, comprising 30 photographs taken from 2004 to 2018. The East German-born photographer, who grew up in the last decade of the Cold War in a still divided Germany, creates images that portray the present through the lens of history using temporal distance to invoke pathos in a contemporary society suffering from historical amnesia. Mühe displays a fascination with power, pomp and grandeur, photographing monumental buildings, politicians, celebrities and rock stars, and even the German chancellor Angela Merkel. But he also dives into his country’s own history, subverting the totalitarian aesthetics and discourses of power that he draws on. The first photographs encountered in the exhibition are four self-portraits of the artist from the series Mühe Kopf (2018). Resembling album covers by German rock band Rammstein, with whom the artist has worked, the white, sculpted clay faces stare at the viewer with piercing blue, ceramic eyes. They are a form of vanitas, …

Philip Colbert

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Lobster Land / Whitestone Gallery / Hong Kong / May 23 – Jun 28, 2019 / Remo Notarianni / Multidisciplinary Scottish artist Philip Colbert has made the lobster his alter ego. “I became an artist when I became a lobster,” says the artist, who describes his work as “hyperpop realism”. Colbert’s quirky crustacean was a central figure of Lobster Land, a collection of his large-scale paintings and sculptures at Hong Kong’s Whitestone Gallery, and his first solo exhibition in the city. His images immerse the audience in a landscape of social media aesthetics, including thumb and heart emojis, that are interspersed with art-historical figures. Through his persona, Colbert analyses the visual vocabulary we have acquired by using social-media products that most people depend on daily. In the 2018 triptych Dream Hunt, which was presented at the exhibition, the lobster is seen trying to ride through a congested digital landscape, vaguely reminiscent of Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801). In Hunt Portrait I (Study) (2019), he sits holding a spear in his claw, on a horse that …