May 30 – July 19, 2015; Para Site, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Sheela Gowda is a well-established artist from India, who participated in major biennials and exhibitions. The exhibition is only titled only by the artist’s name and it surveys a rather broad range of works and…
The Empty Gallery, 19/F Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan, Hong Kong It has been about two months since The Empty Gallery first opened its doors, and given my recent second visit for the Suishou No Fune gig, I thought it would be good to record some of my impressions. The Empty…
4/F, Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. 03.08.2015 – 05.03.2015. Curated by Patrick Flores and Anca Verona Mihulet This exhibition came as a pleasant surprise: Osage invited two guest curators to put together a complex show comparing, contrasting and connecting the “Southeast” of Asia and the “Southeast”…
Para Site: A Hundred Years of Shame – Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations. Mar 06 – May 10, 2015, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (link) The inaugural show in Para Site’s new space opened yesterday. The title of the show followed the established format of…
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, September 13, 2014 – January 4, 2015, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud. I am writing this a few months after my visit, so my memories are filtered through the time that passed, and supported by photos, but that shouldn’t matter. Even now a few month later I still find myself returning to…
Table of Contents: Art Issue Projects 藝術計劃: Huang Yen-Ying, Jang Jongwan “Dual Exhibition” Asia Museum of Modern Art (Taichung): “Klimt and Jugendstil”, “Genesis: The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore”, An Era of Abstraction: Chu Teh-chun, Richard Lin, Liu Kuo-Sung, Hsiao Chin”, “Magicians of Sculpture: The Imaginative Worlds of Philippe Hiquily and Arman” Eslite…
MOCA Taipei is showing an exhibition of Korean contemporary art. It is quite a comprehensive selection, ranging across media, from sculpture to video art to painting. This breadth means that there is a bit less depth. This on turn is made up by the thematic selection according to the P.O.P. acronym. The attempt to push…
05.16.2014 – 06.30.2014, Au Hoi Lam, Tang Kwok Hin, Yu Ji, Zhao Zhao, Ian Woo, Milenko Prvacki, Ng Joon Kiat, Jeremy Sharma, Grace Tan, Nilo Ilarde, Ringo Bunoan, Bernardo Pacquing, Maria Taniguchi, Masanori Handa, Kishio Suga, Young Rim Lee, Shin Il Kim, Mee Ai Om, Tintin Wulia, FX Harsono, Nipan Oranniwesna, It is worth visiting…
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong. Para Site, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, 5/10-8/10/2014, & other locations (only ‘till 5/25/2014) The title of the show seemed a bit too schematic, but once visiting the show I have to concur I was mistaken. The show spread out of the Para Site space…
The art fair is over. I want to record this event, but at the same time, don’t see much meaning in writing about the fair itself. A fair is a fair. Many artworks by many artists were on display for sale, many people came to town to buy, and many people followed those who buy…