Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK) and The Hong Kong Art Gallery Association(HKAGA) are proud to co-present a Sculpture Exhibition, from the Thursday, 26 March, to Sunday, 27 September. An online Art Talk program was held on Saturday, March 28 at ASHK as well.
The Sculpture Exhibition tries to engage and revitalize the local art community through collaboration between galleries and cultural institutions and empower the public through art during this critical period in Hong Kong. The Sculpture Exhibition will feature 21 artworks from 18 local and international galleries around the historic premise of ASHK.
亞洲協會香港中心與香港畫廊協會很榮幸一同呈現雕塑藝術展覽，展期為2020年3月26日（星期四）至9月27日（星期日）。此外一個線上的藝術講座在3月28日（星期六）於亞洲協會香港中心舉行。
是次雕塑藝術展希望透過畫廊與文化機構合作推動香港本土藝術的同時，在這段特殊時期以藝術撫慰大眾的心靈。展覽將展出來自18間本地或國際畫廊的21件作品，遍佈亞洲協會香港中心的歷史建築物。
Over the Influence
Venus Ascending
Peter Shire
2013
In this work titled "Venus Ascending", Peter Shire explores the theme of female goddess through relatively unconventional materials including stainless steel, ceramic, enamel and metal leaf. Instead of a figurative representation of human body, the work resembles an abstract tree with red brunches, black and white leaves and golden peaches. Peach, fruit of summer, is the artist's favourite fruit embedded with his childhood memory and nostalgia. Meanwhile, peaches also have rich meanings in Chinese iconography, while also being an erotic symbol in certain context. These symbols of memory and desire are placed on a structure in which branches intersect with each other and form a poetic, ascending composition. As the audience walk around the sculpture, the space and shape change and transform beautifully. This work reflects both Shire's unceasing exploration of materials, composition and structure, in connection with his broader cultural interests and inspirations.
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery
Celebesia Albens (2017)
Sternotoma Mazingeri (2011)
Batocera Amabilis (2011)
Paracupta Maronkarzica (2012)
Neorrinha Belligerantis (2012)
Matteo Pugliese
Born in Milan in 1969, Matteo Pugliese is one of the few contemporary artists who skilfully synthesises classical Italian tradition with contemporary, multi-cultural concept. “The Beetles” are the incarnation of Pugliese’s memories of his childhood. Embedding tiny mementoes or amulets, this series of ceramic works are model-like vivid reproduction of the creatures. Yet, with the inclusion of personalized footprints of reminiscences, Pugliese produces a surreal form of Darwinist evolution, by interface between man and nature from different angles.
Galerie Ora-Ora
Take Me to Fly
Xu Hongfei
2014
“Take Me to Fly”(2014) depicts a lively interaction between a romantic couple; a chubby woman is flying in the air while an athletic man is holding her by the arm, guiding her along. This scene portrays a humorous narrative while playing with contrasting forms, which are all key elements to Xu Hongfei’s sculptures within his celebrated Chubby Woman series. Xu uses the sculptural body to comment on social and aesthetic concerns, reflecting his ideas in an aesthetic form. These sculptures do not depict a real overweight woman, but they are actually works of art produced through spiritualisation. Even though many of his works are nude, they do not have an uncomfortable tone. This is because they represent an ideology, concept, judgement and intellectual thought. For Xu, mediation is essential. His agency finds expression through his artworks, reflecting his beliefs about himself. Xu once expressed that an artist should stay true to himself and create art that frees the soul.
Sin Sin Fine Art
Monument
Jumaldi Alfi
2012
“Monument" (2012) is a sculpture created by the Indonesian artist, Jumaldi Alfi. The sculpture depicts a cactus growing out of barren rock, implying the idea of persevering and surviving even in the hardest times, which the artist points to the possibility of hope amidst difficulties. The materials used in creating the sculpture includes resin, stone powder and acrylic paint. The artist cast the rock from the pulverized dust of rocks recovered from the dangerous eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010.
Axel Vervoordt Gallery
Untitled
Bosco Sodi
2019
Sodi's sculpture was created at the artist's studio, Casa Wabi, in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he extracts raw earth from the ground and combines it with water and sand to form clay. He uses this elemental material, embedded with ancestral significance, to create minimalist sculptures. Once cured, the clay sculptures are fired in a traditional brick kiln with wood, jacaranda seeds, and coconut shells, a process that imbues the sculptures with varied terracotta hues, streaks of green and black, and a multitude of fissures in the surface, giving each cube a unique identity.
de Sarthe Gallery
12 Acute Unequal Angles
Bernar Venet
2016
Celebrated French artist Bernar Venet explores, through his interdisciplinary practice, the dynamics between line and material, form and force, the rational and the organic. Exactly as titled, 12 Acute Unequal Angles is comprised of twelve acute unequal angles, each constructed using Cor-ten steel. Though the artwork's subject is grounded in a mathematic rational, the outdoor sculpture itself is covered in a smooth layer of rust, relying on natural elements for its industrial aesthetic.
10 Chancery Lane Gallery
Woman Leaning
Wang Keping
2005
Wang Keping was one of the leaders of China’s first non-conformist artist group “The Stars” (Xing Xing), formed in 1979 during the post-Cultural Revolution “Beijing Spring”. This group of young avant-garde artists challenged the status quo and were pivotal in initiating the debut of free art expressions in the Post-Mao era. Their works were a voice of revolt within a China that was on the verge of transformation. Wang Keping’s sculptures were some of the most boldly political among the group. Wang Keping left for France in 1984 turning away from political focus and concentrating more on simplified sculptures of both figurative and abstract themes. Inspired by the simplicity of the modernist Constantin Brancusi, the elegance of Chinese Han figures and the bruteness of African sculpture, Wang Keping for the last 40 years has honed a unique sculptural voice truly his own. At the heart of his work is the wood. He describes his sculptural process as a collaboration of what the wood has to give him and what he has to give to the wood.
Rossi & Rossi
Hong Kong Blues
Rasheed Araeen
2018
First exhibited at the Hong Kong Sculpture Park on Tamar Park in 2018, “Hong Kong Blues” (2018) draws compositionally on works from the artist's early career (Minimalist sculpture from the 1960s-70s and Cruciform works from the 1980-90s) while echoing the innovative lattice structure of I.M. Pei's iconic Bank of China Building. The diagonally bisecting element present in Araeen's sculptures–and the repetition and stacking of this basic component–results in an undulating, dancing movement when circumscribed by the viewer. These ever-changing arrangements symbolise a different approach to minimalism by emphasising the need for social mobility in public space.
Note: this sculpture is not on-site at ASHK as of now.
Rossi & Rossi
Street Corner No. 2
Siah Armajani
1995
This work is an example of Armajani's architectural investigations, in which he attempts to probe the notion of space, especially that of the 'public'. These architectural investigations look into the issue of spaces for interaction, gathering, crossing and communication. Illogical conditions and improbable encounters unfold in these larger scale works, which is also evident in his sculptural models of bridges. However mundane the action of pedestrian movement is, Armajani expands the concept of 'public' as something shared and determined, solitary and occasional.
Note: this sculpture is not on-site at ASHK as of now.
Soluna Fine Art
Buncheong Big Jar – The Sky 31
Lee Kang-hyo
2018
Lee Kang-hyo treats ceramic surfaces like paper for ink brush painting, while the marks he creates depict changes of landscapes across Korea's four seasons. This mesmerizing piece is a wonderful fit at Asia Society. The institution is well-known for seamlessly integrating nature and the heritage, and thus the architecture is a combination of history and modernity. Lee's “Buncheong Big Jar: The Sky 31”, similarly, is also the perfect illustration of giving a traditional Korean craftsmanship a contemporary touch.
Note: this sculpture is not on-site at ASHK as of now.
Massimo De Carlo
Giant Triple Mushroom
Carsten Höller
2018
Carsten Höller’s “Giant Triple Mushroom” (2018), is part of a series of sculptures that shows three-dimensional collages of enlarged replicas of wild mushrooms. Half of the structure is composed of a Fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria), which is poisonous and psychoactive, the second quarter from a Porcino (Boletus edulis) and the last from one not, well-identified mushroom, which presents a weathered surface. The artist’s interest in Fly agaric mushrooms is based on their phenomenological and psychoactive properties. Giant Triple Mushroom is a combination of geometry and magic, code and invention, rationality and the absurd, and invites everyone to explore new methods of understanding.
Note: this sculpture is not on-site at ASHK as of now.
Karin Weber Gallery
Autumn Moonlight Stone
Zhu Jing Yi
2014
Zhu Jingyi was fascinated with traditional Chinese ink painting. Yet he always felt that the ink was not dark enough. He wanted to find the darkest shade of black, so he experimented with a lot of medium on paper such as oil, acrylic and emulsion paint. He discovered the potential three-dimensional effect and then stumbled upon resin, which could be melted and took shape instantly. He turned ink from two dimensional to three dimensional. This was a turning point and his signature ‘Standing Inks’ were born.
Note: this sculpture is not on-site at ASHK as of now.
Galerie Ora-Ora
Weaving Intimacy for Women 2
Man Fung-Yi
2009
For Man Fung-Yi, clothes are a record and carry the history of a person at certain places and times. In her Weaving Intimacy series, Man uses the strength of metal to solidify these memories, protecting and immortalizing these intimate and valuable moments in time. In the artwork “Weaving Intimacy for Women 2” (2009), this billowing dress form shows a feminine side with feelings of softness, tenderness and sensitivity. While the sculpture looks delicate and light-weighted, Man’s choice of using more “masculine” materials, such as bronze and stainless steel to create these feminine forms, provides contrast to an otherwise male-dominated art form and a reflection on society in general.
Galerie KOO
White Satsuma | Yoraku Pattern Vase
Akihiro Furugaki
2018
Furugaki Akihiro, potter of Satsuma ware. Born in Kagoshima Prefecture, 1974. He majored in Japanese painting at University and studied Suibokuga (ink and wash painting) and Kyoto-Etsuke (Kyoto style painting on pottery). He opened his own potter kiln "Kaichi Kama" in Kyoto in 2006. He moved his pottery to Kagoshima prefecture. He has held several private exhibitions in Tokyo, Kyoto and Kagoshima. His works have been highly valued for their beautiful and delicate style from home and overseas customers. Particularly, he is one of the few artists who knows the "Yuuri Kinginsai" technique, also known as the phantom technique. His "Yuuri Kinginsai" has been further developed by the artist himself to create a more delicate work of art.
Contemporary by Angela Li
The Child with Scarf
Li Hongbo
2016-2018
Li’s paper sculptures challenge viewers’ expectations and command viewers to think out of the box, while echoing the absurdities of the world and the confusion of its inhabitants. Influenced by the traditional Chinese folk craft of ‘paper gourd’, Li manipulates materials with a long history and infinite cultural attributes into different shapes, sizes, and directions. Each bust comprises roughly 7,000 to over 20,000 sheets of white paper stacked on top of each other. They are glued manually in a honeycomb structure, allowing the resulting sculptures complete flexibility and sturdiness.
Note: this sculpture is not on-site at ASHK as of now.
L+ / Lucie Chang Fine Arts
Drifting Clouds I
Xiang Jing
2010
“Drifting Clouds I” has been exhibited in “I Have Seen Happiness” in 2011 and “Birdcalls in the Floating World” in 2012. Xiang Jing’s artworks explore themes about the experience of growth, the female body and the comfort of the individual. Xiang leads the viewer to understand her views and interpretation of human nature through the different stages of the creation of her works, bringing the viewer to perceive the various faces of“ happiness”. The audience will find that “happiness” often appears in a face different from our presumptions; it reflects a state of calmness, as if it is a distant observation made out of the context of our society or even the universe.
Lehmann Maupin
Tall Bag G
Erwin Wurm
2019
Many of Wurm's works provide a subtle social critique of contemporary culture, particularly in response to the societal pressures and capitalist influences that affect our external personas in contrast to our internal ideals. His work explores the exciting possibilities of sculpture, pushing the boundaries of this static art form to incorporate participatory, temporal, and psychological elements. As an artist, Wurm is interested in conditions that test the limits of form and evoke the absurdity that can be found in the routine and mundane actions of everyday life - for all forms, including our own bodies, can be considered and activated as sculpture. Wurm will also often attribute human traits to inanimate objects, by giving human appendages to luxury handbags, for example, as a way to demonstrate the socially reinforced implications that these objects hold through anthropomorphic forms.
Note: this sculpture is not on-site at ASHK as of now.
Galerie KOO
Time Capsule
Ng Ka-Ho
2018
Ng Ka-Ho, born in Hong Kong in 1990. Graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University, bachelor’s degree of Visual Arts, Academy of Visual arts. Graduated from a master’s degree of mixed media, Kyoto University of Arts and Design. Received excellence award in Graduation Exhibition(MA) of Kyoto University of Arts and Design. Active in Japan and Hong Kong.
Alisan Fine Arts
Apple Flower 2
Kum Chi-keung
2015
Kum Chi-Keung's creative concept of the recent "Apple" series is a combination of public art, nature, and traditional Chinese culture. The artist uses car paint to paint colourful flower patterns on these unique shapes of the birdcages mix with apples, creating these "Apple Blossoms" sculptures that can be freely displayed outdoor. For Kum, apple symbolizes wisdom and health, the colour green shows the vitality of nature. Coupling with floral patterns, it shares the meaning of blossoms and bearing fruits and it is one of Kum's iconic works that obtain the essence of Contemporary Chinese art.
La Galerie, Paris 1839
Boxer
Polo Bourieau
2018
The “Boxer”, comes from a series of smaller sculpture works made in the intimacy of his workshop in Pietrasanta, which will be presented by La Galerie Paris 1839 at their gallery space in May (as an associated project with Le French May). This red Turkish marble shows a vibrant energy and spirit of a fighter, which carries a positive message of what Bourieau thinks of the recent collaborative art power in Hong Kong’s art community fighting back and supporting each other at this challenging time. Bourieau explores the process by which rough and simple geometric volumes to evolve into a figurative state and vice versa, trying to seize in precious and rare stones this ephemera and dynamic moment of transformation.
Massimo De Carlo
Adaptation
Elmgreen & Dragset
2018
The sculpture Adaption (2018) takes the form of a street sign in standardised shapes commonly seen all over the world. However, this particular sign don't display any symbols, colours, or markings — it is in stainless steel and mirror polished, so it reflects the space around and the people within it. Rather than announce itself with the urgency and high visibility that street signs normally do, it seems to camouflage itself by adapting to the surroundings. Instead of giving instructions and directions, it function as an open form ready to negotiate and absorb new ideas.
Divided into five 30-minute talk sessions, the Art Talk will feature HKAGA member galleries and artists on different subjects ranging from Hong Kong art, the role of art in politics to art practice of exhibiting artists. The full talk will be live-streamed and reported by event partner CoBo Social to encourage audience all over the world to get connected to art at their convenience.
藝術座談會將與2020年3月28日（星期六）在亞洲協會香港中心內的力寶展藝場舉行。講座將分為5節，每節為30分鐘，畫廊代表於藝術家們將會深入探討一系列問題，包括香港本土藝術、藝術與政治的關係以及參展藝術家的藝術實踐等。是次座談會將會全場線上直播，並由活動合作夥伴CoBo Social進行報導，以鼓勵藝術愛好者更方便得觀看和接觸藝術。
10 Chancery Lane Gallery
Alisan Fine Arts
Axel Vervoordt Gallery
Ben Brown Fine Arts
Contemporary by Angela Li
De Sarthe
Galerie Koo
Galerie Ora-Ora
Karin Weber Gallery
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery
La Galerie, Paris 1839
Lehmann Maupin
Lucie Chang Fine Arts/L+
Massimo De Carlo
Over the Influence
Rossi & Rossi
Sin Sin Fine Art
Soluna Fine Art
Villepin
Exhibition Period
March 26 – September 27, 2020
Free admission
Location
Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive Admiralty
Opening Hours
Tuesday-Sunday: 11am-6pm
Last Thursday of every month: 11am-8pm
Closed on Mondays
Last admission 30 minutes before closing
參觀展覽
2020年3月26日至9月27日
免費參觀
展覽場地
亞洲協會香港中心
香港賽馬會復修軍火庫
香港金鐘正義道9號
開放時間
星期二至星期日：上午11時至下午6時
每月最後一個星期四：上午11時至晚上8時
逢星期一休館
最後入場： 閉館前30分鐘
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ASHK X HKAGA Sculpture Exhibition
Extension of exhibition until September 27, 2020
We are pleased to announce that Asia Society Hong Kong Center and Hong Kong Art Gallery Association confirm to extend the ASHK X HKAGA Sculpture Exhibition to September 27, 2020. With the current situation COVID-19, Asia Society Hong Kong Center will be closed until May 7, 2020 and the exhibition will also be closed during this period. The virtual docent tour of the exhibition is available on HKAGA’s website: http://www.hk-aga.org/ashk-x-hkaga-sculpture-exhibition/ . We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
亞洲協會香港中心X 香港畫廊協會雕塑藝術展
展期延長至2020年9月27日
我們樂於在此宣布亞洲協會香港中心與香港畫廊協會合辦的《雕塑藝術展》，展期將延長至2020年9月27日。因應新冠狀病毒肺炎(COVID-19) 的情況，亞洲協會香港中心將暫停開放至5月7日，屆時藝術展也會因應閉館而暫停開放。為了使公眾可掌握更多展品的資訊，網上展覽導賞已在香港畫廊協會的平台http://www.hk-aga.org/ashk-x-hkaga-sculpture-exhibition/ 上發放。不便之處，敬希見諒。
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