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Art Basel | Hong Kong 2014 (photoblog)

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Art Basel in Hong Kong was held last week from 15-18 May 2014 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) with numerous parallel events. We kicked off our art week in Hong Kong on Tuesday (13 May) with a quick visit to Hong Kong Art Centre’s Second Contemporary Collectors exhibition Passion/Possession featuring works from 10 Indonesian collectors curated by Agung Hujatnikajennong and ended our evening with Art Gallery Night (in the Central and Sheung Wan area). After the Art Basel Vernissage it was followed up by a post party event at Absolut Art Bar with Ming Wong’s performance inside Nadim Hassan’s Apocalypse Postponed installation on Wednesday. Thursday night was Wong Chuk Hung Art Night (gallery hopping in the Aberdeen area), and the artists and designers who live and work in Chai Wan opened their doors to the public for Chai Wan Mei Open Studios on Friday and the weekend. While there were many day events at the fair – with talks and workshops organised by Art Basel, but we attended Asia Art Archive Brunch & Talk by Wong Hoy Cheong on ‘Rage, Hope and Love: Working with Communities & Housing’, followed by a visit to Para/Site‘s exhibition ‘Ten Millions Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong’, and finally Xu Bing’s ‘It Begins with Metamorphosis‘ exhibition at The Asia Society Museum.

 

Agus Suwage’s work at the Passion/Possesion exhibition at HKAC.

‘Lazy Chair’ by Yuli Prayitno at the Passion/Possesion exhibition at HKAC.

Da Xian: Doomsday by Huang Yong Ping at the Passion/Possesion exhibition at HKAC.

Gu Wenda’s installation at the ‘Discoveries’ section in Art Basel HK.

Yee I-Lann’s ‘Picturing Power’ series finally gets a proper debut in Asia at Silverlens’ booth at the fair after having exhibited the series in Europe and America.

Ai Wei Wei’s Freedom bicycle installation at Art Basel Hong Kong.

Agus Suwage’s latest series using watercolour, presented by Nadi Gallery at Art Basel HK.

FX Harsono’s latest series ‘The further we go, the less we understand’ presented by Galeri Canna at Art Basel HK.

Yang Yongliang’s latest series of work are all video based works. On closer look the typical ‘Chinese Landscapes’ are made up of urban architecture.

Grayson Perry ‘Map of Truth and Beliefs’ (2011) at Art Basel HK.

One of the miniature works by Lam Yau-sum presented by Grotto Fine Art that specialises in contemporary Hong Kong art.

Rudi Mantofani’s latest series ‘Space-Scape’ by Galeri Semarang.

Detail of the work on MH 370 by Chinese artist Qiu Zhi Jie in one one of the booths in Art Basel HK.

A work on MH 370 by Chinese artist Qiu Zhi Jie in one one of the booths in Art Basel HK.

Li Wen had a solo presentation by iPreciation at the fair.

Ming Wong performing at Absolut Art Bar

Albert Yonathan Setyawan at Yallay + Isabel van den Eynde Gallery in Aberdeen area.

Detail look at Albert Yonathan Setyawan at Yallay + Isabel van den Eynde Gallery in Aberdeen area.

Eko Nugroho’s Wayang Kulit puppets at Yallay + Isabel van den Eynde Gallery in Aberdeen area.

Hou Chun-ming’s Crimes and Punishment in Hong Kong (1996) series of mimeographs presented in Para/Site’s exhibition at Sheung Wan Civic Centre.

The exhibition ‘A Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong’ by Para/Site’s exhibition at Sheung Wan Civic Centre.

The exhibition ‘A Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong’ by Para/Site’s exhibition at Sheung Wan Civic Centre.

A re-contruction of Xu Bing’s work room, part of the exhibition at Asia Society.


Xu Bing’s ‘Background Story’ (2014) made from natural debris in a lightbox.

The back of the artwork ‘Background Story’.

The original artwork by Wang Jian ‘Landscape in the Style of Xu Daoning’ that was replicated by Xu Bing in the form of lightbox and natural debris.

 


May 21st, 2014 |

Tags: Art Basel Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive, ming wong, Wong Hoy Cheong, Yee I-Lann




SUPER SINGAPORE round 2

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The Singaporeans have certainly been laying the art on. Just two months on from Art Stage, we tramped down for the year’s second art blockbuster event, the slightly delayed Singapore Biennale, and a good seven or eight shows on the side.

By all accounts, SB2011 is less of a spectacle than its predecessors – no art statements running across City Hall in bright lights, no colourful containers brightening the urban shoreline. It shies well away from big beautiful themes like 2006’s Belief, and 2008’s Wonder. This year’s Biennale, themed “Open House”, is decidedly interior in its conceptual and physical architecture.

(Broadsheet’s 40th anniversary edition gives a good preview, including a lengthy interview with Artistic Director Matthew Ngui and Curators Russell Storer and Trevor Smith: http://www.cacsa.org.au.)

Less can be more, though, and, not expecting wow (there was simply not very much build-up to the event), I really enjoyed the Biennale as an experience. I found myself getting into works I didn’t expect to like, and that there was just about enough time to cover the 63 works over a day and a bit (ideally two though) without reeling over from too much information. The curatorial emphasis on process over subject, object and in a number of cases, presentation, I think worked on me, ranging through sometimes vastly different approaches from space to space, room to room, dark corner to dark corner (of the National Museum) – the question marks and surprises, as much as the resonances did force you to engage and explore. I particularly liked the Old Kallang Airport site – moving through the succession of rooms in the East and West blocks like changing levels of a video game, or the hide-and-seek of the main building. There was an Alice-in-Wonderland effect, you were tiny among the giant rolls of Michael Beutler’s Pipeline Field, or in Sheela Gowda’s magnified bathroom of horror, but god-like peering into the unrealised utopias of Michael Lee’s Office Architect. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Frequency and Volume: Relational Architecture 9 was a big hit with visitors as our bodies tuned into radio channels tracking the large shadows we cast on the wall.

Michael Beutler, Pipeline Field


Sheela Gowda

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Frequency and Volume: Relational Architecture 9

There was a definite sense of nakedness and exposure, sometimes as a challenge, sometimes as an act of trust or intimacy, sometimes conspiratorial. There were relatively few works that were all dressed up and ready to go for the ball. For Rumah Sulaiman Belakang Kedai Ah Guat, Shooshie Sulaiman relocated the structures of two sites of personal significance– in Titiwangsa KL and Malacca, to SAM’s 8Q building, and they contextualise a video of a conversation with Ah Guat, and drawings and collages from over the span of her practice, creating a layered reading of artistic process, space, and memory through an excavation of the personal.

Shooshie Sulaiman, Rumah Sulaiman Belakang Kedai Ah Guat

Confession, identity-construction and voyeurism seemed to play a big part in the curatorial conversation, from Ruang Rupa’s hilarious and touching fantasy lives of Singaporeans to Ise’s grocery-shopping adventures with local families to Jill Magid’s Evidence Locker to the poster-child of the Biennale, Candice Breitz’s Factum which compares interviews with identical twins and a set of triplets. I particularly enjoyed Tala Mandani’s tiny animated vignettes of clumsy men doing violence to themselves, and Simon Fujiwara’s extraordinary manifold reconstruction of Hotel Mumber using eroticism as an intriguing entry-point.

Ruang Rupa, Singapura Fiction

I was surprised by the amount of sex (as parody: Tracy Moffat, Ming Wong) and violence (to inanimate structures – Lisi Raskin’s muscled reconfiguration of the mezzanine floor of Kallang West Block, Mike Nelson tearing up walls and pedestals, Superflex drowning McDonalds). I found I quite liked the violence bit.

Mike Nelson

Other personal favourites which linger in my mind are Tiffany Chung’s poetic landscape installation Floating into the Future from a Distant Past, and earlier mappings of Vietnam, and Phil Collins’ wonderful music video The Meaning of Style, carving new spaces for imagining our third-world realities.

Tiffany Chung, Floating into the Future from a Distant Past

It’s worth catching the Biennale (to 15 May 2011) if you’re in this part of the world – not so much as a great new album of contemporary art, but certainly an inspiring and interesting playlist which can help to make us think more deeply about what some artists today are trying to get at.

For a “greatest hits” of Southeast Asian contemporary art, you can also catch Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia, 1991 – 2010 at SAM (to 26 June 2011). Do also make an effort to visit Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya at NUS Museum, a wonderful exploration, both as an exhibition and a publication, or what curator Shabbir Hussain Mustafa describes as an “exhibitionary complex”, of the evolution of the museum in Malaya. Tap into some fantastic archival material including letters and recorded conversations on Malayan exhibitions in London in the 1920s, the genesis of the Raffles Museum, and the Asian Art Museum at University Malaya and their collections, Asian art objects from the NUS Museum and Asian Civilisations Museum collections, natural history artefacts from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (NUS) Collection, Dr Ivan Polunin’s remarkable Singapore film archive and the eclectic collection and paintings of artist and healer Mohammad din Mohammad, for new ways of seeing old ways of seeing.

Mella Jaarsma at SAM

Camping and Tramping Through the Colonial Archive: The Museum in Malaya

Bernando Pacquing, Untitled at ICA’s “Roberto Chabet : Complete & Unabridged”


April 4th, 2011 |

Tags: Candice Breitz, Ise, Jill Magid, Kallang Airport, Lisi Raskin, Mella Jaarsma, Michael Beutler, Michael Lee, Mike Nelson, ming wong, NUS, Open House, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ruang Rupa, Sheela Gowda, Shooshie Sulaiman, Simon Fujiwara, Singapore Biennale, Superflex, Tala Mandani, Tiffany Chung, Tracy Moffat




Last chance to see….

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If in Singapore this week, we strongly recommend you try to catch the last few days of FX Harsono: Testimonies at Singapore Art Museum, which ends 9 May.  If you can’t, download the exhibition catalogue from the SAM website.

While at SAM do also go see Ming Wong, Life of Imitation, which runs to 22 August – well worth the price of the tickets!

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December 5th, 2010 |

Tags: f x harsono, ming wong




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