Category: Art
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Haim Steinbach: tin drum at White Cube
In Haim Steinbach’s Hong Kong exhibition, ‘tin drum’, White Cube gallery brings together nine works spanning almost two decades of the New York-based Israeli artist’s career.
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Review: Machines of Desire at Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Machines of Desire’s Hong Kong chapter stages a collision of unconscious and conscious desires, a motivating force of contemporary consumption, through 12 works by eight artists.
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Nicolas Party: From Fantasy to Catastrophe
Red Forest, Party’s exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong (30 June–24 September 2022), his first in the city, delivers more vibrant, collector-pleasing compositions that launched his reputation into the artistic stratosphere.
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Review: Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube Gallery
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.
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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’,…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Liquified Sunshine | Force Majeur: Luke Ching Chin Wai & South Ho Siu Nam
The first exhibition in Hong Kong addressing and engaging with the city’s current political and identity troubles, Liquefied Sunshine | Force Majeure is a creative dialogue between Hong Kong artists Luke Ching Chin Wai and South Ho Siu Nam that explores the notion of storms, one natural, the other political.
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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…
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