Hong Kong, September 11 – October 4, 2015, http://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/ Max Chan Wang, Garret Lai Ho Feng, Leung Wing Yee A photographic exhibition focusing on themes like the passing of time and memory.
Hong Kong, 9 September – 6 November, 2015, http://www.pearllam.com Exhibition of one of the noted American abstract expressionist painter’s works. Abstract expressionism, the first ‘truly American’ style got a different flavor since its role as CIA’s cultural weapon during the Cold War has been confirmed. While the exhibition covered a period from the 1940’s until…
Hong Kong, August 29 – September 20, 2015, http://wooferten.blogspot.hk/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1445782452408927/ Curator: Hitomi Hasegawa, Artists: 会田誠 Makoto Aida, LING & COMMA (Gao Ling 高靈 & Elaine W. Ho 何穎雅 ), 梁志剛 Michael Leung, 文晶瑩 Phoebe Man, ROBOT (Takuji Kogo 古郷卓司 及John Miller), Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi五十嵐惠), 林愷倩 Lam Hoi Sin, Sputniko!, 鈴木涼子 Ryoko Suzuki, Yuk Kin Tan,…
Hong Kong, September 18 – October 17, 2015, Hong Kong, https://www.facebook.com/Hanart.TZ.Gallery Curator: Valerie C. Doran. Hanart TZ Gallery recently focused mainly on Chinese ink painting, plus some western-style paintings by artists of greater China origins. A video-art exhibition of Yuan Goang Ming, one of the founders of Taiwanese video was quite a surprising turn of…
Gyeonggi-do, Paju-si, September 5 – 29, 2015, http://mimesisart.co.kr/mimesis-art-museum/ The visit to this museum has been shaped by the long way it took to get there. I have heard some good words about Paju Book city, and I was curious about the place as well as about the museum. I can confirm that there is indeed…
Seoul, September 25 – November 15, 2015, http://www.museum.go.kr The temporary exhibition of Early Buddhist Sculpture was very welcoming and easy to navigate. It was just the right size to spend between half an hour (running through) to two hours (taking careful looks). It was logically structured along a simple narrative from early origins of Buddhism…
Hong Kong, September 18 – October 13, 2015, http://www.pearllam.com An Italian artist like Pino Pinelli, now in his 70’s, has lived through a lot. The press release mentioned a “deep influence by the Zero Group” but he was not part of them. The body of work seems to revolve around monochrome “paintings” that change their…
Hong Kong, September 17 – October 10, 2015, http://www.leogallery.com.cn Alec von Bargen is an actor-turned photographer. His acting experience seeps through into his photographic work, which is always centered on human individuals, their expressions and feelings. Formally, works are either specific portraits of anonymous individuals, or photographs of more generic silhouettes that metaphorically stand for…
Hong Kong, September 1 – October 5, 2015, http://www.galeriehuit.com.hk Fujimura is an artist in his 50’s, Japanese, living in the U.S. Works seem to be made by applying ink or dry pigment onto paper mounted on a stretched canvas. Beautiful works, somewhere between abstract expressionism and Asian ink painting. Suitable for any living room or…
Seoul, August 28 – October 25, 2015, http://ilmin.org/ Cho Duck Hyun’s main skill is the ability to minutely copy photographs as graphite pencil drawings on large canvases covered with Korean mulberry paper. The photos are reproduced in black and white, and the originals are also usually black and white vintage photographs. This technique that produced…