Since the 1990s, Welsh conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans has created work about language, perception and representation. The artist skilfully weaves in elements of the musical, literary, philosophical and cinematic, resulting in exhibitions that are densely layered and at times even cryptic.
Pan Daijing: ‘Echo, Moss, Spill’ at Tai Kwun Contemporary
Visitors are greeted by an eerie echo of operatic voices floating up the spiral, brutalist staircase as they make their way to the third floor of the Tai Kwun Contemporary exhibition space in Hong Kong. The operatic work, One Hundred Nine Minus (2021) is the first of a three-part video, sound, and performance installation titled 'Echo, Moss & Spill',... Continue Reading →
Bruce Nauman: Presence/Absence at White Cube
This year marks the 80th birthday of American artist Bruce Nauman. Following on from a recent Tate retrospective, is 'Presence/Absence’ at White Cube, the first exhibition in Hong Kong for the pioneering video artist.
Sherrie Levine: Hong Kong Dominoes
American artist Sherrie Levine's recent exhibition Hong Kong Dominoes at David Zwirner in Hong Kong (4 September–13 October 2021) is comprised of six bodies of work that span three decades of the artist’s career. Levine rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists based in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s. Originally trained as a... Continue Reading →
Hans-Peter Feldmann at Simon Lee Gallery
Hans Peter Feldmann’s recent exhibition at Hong Kong’s Simon Lee Gallery, features works from across nearly five decades of the Dusseldorf-born artist’s career, including sculpture, photography, installation, collage and found objects.
Rodel Tapaya’s Random Numbers
Over the past two decades, Rodel Tapaya has become one of the leading Filipino artists of his generation, gaining international recognition in 2002 when he was awarded the Top Prize at the Nokia Art Awards Asia, followed by the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize in 2011.
Gary Simmons ‘Dancing in Darkness’
Simmons has used his practice to retrace, reclaim, and reconstruct African-American history and experience by uncovering the way institutions enforce inequality and assert control.
Neri Oxman: Material Ecology Exhibition at MoMA
First published on plant-terra, April 2020 A new exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcases the radical projects and sustainable design of boundary-breaking polymath and innovator Neri Oxman. American-Israeli architect, designer, academic and inventor Neri Oxman has built a reputation for being at the cutting edge of new design materials and methodologies.... Continue Reading →
McArthur Binion at Lehmann Maupin and Massimo de Carlo Gallery, HK
After decades of being overlooked, it's fair to say that 73-year-old American artist McArthur Binion is having a moment. With a spate of recent exhibitions, notably his inclusion in the 2017 Venice Biennale Viva Arte Viva and a 2018 solo exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, this past month the artist has also celebrated the opening of several... Continue Reading →
A Visit to Kanaal
Previous years have seen Belgian collector, art and antiquities dealer, gallerist and celebrated designer, Axel Vervoordt, stage some of the most beautiful exhibitions during the Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Fortuny. Filled with works from his collection –– paintings by Gutai and Dansaekwa masters Kazuo Shiraga and Yun Hyong-Keun, Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, as well... Continue Reading →
Chen Danqing at Tang Contemporary
Shanghai-born artist Chen Danqing was only 14 when he started painting Mao propaganda posters in the 1970s. “I painted more than 100 portraits of Chairman Mao on the street walls in Shanghai and its suburbs and also on factory iron sheets,” he says. “During that time, there were millions of amateur and professional painters in... Continue Reading →
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