(11/12/2013 – ?) An exhibition of student’s work at City University of Hong Kong created under the guidance of Adrian Wong. A mixture of really bad sculpture, boring sculpture and some pretty good pieces too. The biggest ‘fails’ for me were those sculptures utilizing toilet paper – probably the author’s thought of it as shocking,…
Category: Exhibitions
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Microwave Festival: Main Exhibition
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(11/9 – 11/17/2013) Microwave Festival website A small exhibition, containing 5 artworks in total. In accordance with the overall space & moon theme of the festival, the artworks on display all related to the topic, and I felt the relation was a bit too predictable: A withered rose that has supposedly been exposed to Mars-like…
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Spring Workshop: A Constructed World “The Social Contract”
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(11/2 – 12/5/2013) Spring Workshop website Spring Workshop is an art space located on the South side of Hong Kong Island (Aberdeen). Located in an old warehouse building, it was minutely clean and precisely designed inside. The exhibition by an the artist group called A Constructed World was of a special kind: Prior to entering…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Asia Code _ ZERO_ 空 + Changhoon Lee “Either Very Short of Very Long”
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Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, 10/11 – 12/22 (Asia Code), 10/11 – 10/27/13 (Changhoon Lee) www.somamuseum.org www.somadrawing.org The handout of the show announced the theme of “Zero” (空 – Chinese character for emptiness) identified as the specific feature of ‘Asian’ art. Works in the show were related to this concept, taking up the theme from different…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Takashi Murakami “Takashi in Superflat Wonderland”
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Plateau, Seoul, 7/4 – 12/8/2013 The Murakami show at Plateau Seoul has been on since the summer, however it was just in the autumn that I managed to stop by. Murakami’s work is so iconic that I did not consider it necessary to see, but after the visit I still found it worthy to see. The…
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Platform China (HK): Lyota Yagi + Takehiro Iitawa “Once was Now, Now is Over, Yet will come”
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(10/30/2013 – ?) Platform China FB Following the talk earlier in the week, Lyota’s and Takehiro’s opening took place on Thursday. Overall, the artist presentations prepared me well for the show. Without attending the talk, the works would probably mean less to me… or more. For Lyota’s work, seeing the car racing track made of…
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HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery: Painting On and On 5: Taciturn
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(10/25 – 11/23/2013) HKICC website A group exhibition of Au Hoi Lam, Gaylord Chan, Ko Sin Tung, Kong Chun Hei, Lee Kit, Liu Chun Kwong, Frank Vigneron and Wai Pong Yu. This show collected the best of a certain art scene in Hong Kong. The common denominator of the painting on show has been a…
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Seoul.Art.Summer.2013
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This post provides a flashback of this year’s summer time in Seoul. I spent most of July and August in Seoul. It has been more than a month since my departure, but memories still linger in my head. On the contrary to my experience in Europe where summer is the holiday season or Shanghai where…
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Blindspot Gallery: Jiang Pengyi “Everything Illuminates”
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(10/5 – 11/2/2013) Blindspot Gallery website When I received the invitation I first wondered whether this is an installation or photo exhibition. The images showed objects, like a crystal chandelier, a paper sheet or a mysterious liquid which were emanating light – the light was coming straight out of them from another light source illuminating…
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Para Site: “The Floating Eternity Project”
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(9/15 – 11/10/2013) http://www.para-site.org.hk/ After a plague-themed exhibition in the summer, Para/site is showing a death-themed exhibition in the autumn – that was my first thought when finding out about this show. I was surprised that the exhibition architecture of the space stayed the same as last time. I thought it would be temporary. Given…