ASHK Members’ Guided Tour: Tobias Klein: Metamorphosis or Confrontation
VIEW EVENT DETAILSActivities:
- 10:50am Gather at Fung Ping Shan Building and Registration
- 11:00am Start of guided tour
- 12:00pm End of guided tour
The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) would like to invite the members of Asia Society Hong Kong Center to visit the current exhibition – ‘Metamorphosis or Confrontation’ – Tobias Klein’s most extensive solo exhibition to date on the theme of Digital Craftsmanship.
The UMAG exhibition traces Klein’s work over the past decade and is structured in four distinct areas: Bones, Masks, Mutations and Forces. Each theme unravels the relationships and evolution of the artist’s body of work, while at the same time demanding that visitors take a position of negotiation, evolution or confrontation.
About the Exhibition
The first room, Bones, has been transformed into a cabinet of curiosities (Wunderkammer) and the second room, Masks, is inspired by the cultural allusions of Cantonese Opera masks. Mutations, the third exhibition space, places three different works in a stimulating constellation—The Invisible Human, Melted Proportions and Witnesses. In the final room, Forces, Klein establishes a dialogue between traditional forms of Chinese wood carving, experimental glass blowing and the ornamentation of digital transformations. Seen as a whole, the four individual rooms allow for an understanding of the mastery of both digital and analogue materials and present the rich tapestry of Digital Craftsmanship.
About Tobias Klein
Tobias Klein was trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2014, he taught for more than ten years at the world-renowned Architectural Association School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art. Klein holds a PhD from RMIT Melbourne and currently teaches in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. By exploring applications of 3D printing in architecture, art, design and interactive media installations, Klein has created a fusion of contemporary CAD/CAM technologies built from natural materials, found objects and cultural historical references. In his work, Klein develops the emerging discipline of Digital Craftsmanship as an operational synthesis between digital and physical tools and techniques.
Dr. Tobias Klein will guide the members of Asia Society Hong Kong Center through this exhibition.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Event Details
1/F Fung Ping Shan Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam
(Please enter via the Fung Ping Shan Building and not the T.T. Tsui Building entrance)