Hong Kong, H Queens, March 27 – 8 May, 2018, https://www.pearllam.com The second, new, space of Pearl Lam in Hong Kong, in the newly opened H Queens building showing Arcangelo Sassolino’s works was both complementary and consistent with the other existing Pearl Lam location is in the Pedder Building, showing abstract painter Huang Yanqing. The…
Hong Kong, Pedder Building 6/F, 27 March – 11 May, 2018, https://www.pearllam.com The fixed layout of the gallery walls gave me a familiar feeing: The reception with the glass wall, the longer corridor behind the reception corner, and then the two less busy “contemplative” side rooms left and right, one of them ending at the…
Hong Kong, July 22 – September 15, 2016, http://www.pearllam.com/ If the exhibitions at Karin Weber and K11 Chi Art Space represented the joyful side of Hong Kong’s young artists, then “Interstitial” represented the existential angst-laden side. Instead of everyday leisure and fun, existential questions and personal fears came to the fore. The use of technology…
Hong Kong, May 12 – June 30, 2016, http://www.pearllam.com One cannot but think of Francis Bacon the painter when looking at images of Micallef’s paintings. They are portraits, but anonymized and presented as a strange thick mash of skin-tone colors, hinting at the energy of a living body without freezing it in time. Looking at…
Hong Kong, March 22 – 26, 2016, HKCEC Another year and another Art Basel fair in Hong Kong. It’s close to impossible to encompass everything that has been going on, but here a few random moments from the fair itself, which I found worthy enough to pull my phone out of the pocket and press…
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, 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…
(9/19 – 11/2/2013) http://www.pearllam.com/city/hong-kong/ This show has a bit of a ‘showroom feel’ at first. The polished LED displays in the white space looked similar to the iPhones in an Apple Store. I also instantly recognized the arch-shaped displays that have been on show at Rockbund Museum in Shanghai earlier this year. The work was…
20 May – 28 June 2013, Pearl Lam Fine Art Shanghai I was not familiar with Entang Wiharso’s work before entering this exhibition, so I first and foremost appreciated the show as an introduction to the oeuvre of this well established artist from Indonesia. Wiharso basically works in two modes: One mode of expression is…
Pearl Lam Gallery,Shanghai April 15 – May 12, 2013 With Michael Wilkinson’s show at the Pearl Lam Gallery in Shanghai, I felt for the first time that the artworks on display positively interacted with the space they were displayed in. In previous shows, I often felt that there was a kind of competition for attention…