葉家偉 Alexis Ip X Hong Kong Dimensions
Blue Lotus Gallery is proud to present a new and fascinating group exhibition showcasing the incredible work of award-winning French and Hong Kong Artists, curated by Blue Lotus Gallery and selected for the official program of Le French May 2018. Hong Kong Dimensions will take you on a deeper and unique journey through the iconic city in terms of space, time, the ultra real, the imagined, and the point where they intersect.
This exhibition explores Hong Kong in all its dimensions from above and under, its back alleys, its everyday moments in old neighborhoods, and its collision with nature. Driven by curiosity or a desire for preserving its cultural heritage, each artist expresses his personal testimonial of their beloved city in their own special way from descriptive to fantastical and whimsical. Breaking through the photograph Hong Kong Dimensions brings you work that plays with layers in space and time, where still life comes to life, where the real looks fake and the manipulated looks natural. Having its cornerstone in photography, artists final form varies in distinctive ways from 2D, expanding to 3D work, hand drawings and even moving collages resulting in unique pieces that reveal talent beyond photography. Most of the works that will be shown are unique pieces, ranging from the extreme handmade to the hyper-digital.
+++ workshops, artist talks, book launch and tours are scheduled during the duration of the exhibition
OPENING RECEPTION: 12 May: 3 - 6pm
EXHIBITION DURATION: 12 May to 16 June 2018
ARTIST TALKS:
26 May: 4pm Pete Ross | 5pm Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze + book launch and signing
02 June: 4pm 葉家偉 Alexis Ip | 5pm Daphné Mandel
FOTOMO WORKSHOP: 09 June: 2 - 4pm with 葉家偉 Alexis Ip [for ages 12+]
VENUE: 1606 Chai Wan Industrial City Phase 1, 60 Wing Tai Rd., Chai Wan
OPENING HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
CONTACT:
Press & Inquiries (English):
Christina Jensen: christina@bluelotus-gallery.com
Sarah Greene: sarah@bluelotus-gallery.com
Press & Inquiries (Chinese):
Eunice Lam: eunice@bluelotus-gallery.com
For images and/or interviews with the artist, please contact us.
Video credit: Jin Heng
Hong Kong Museum of Art Reopen 2019 Walkthrough 香港藝術館重開走一圈!
Hong Kong Museum of Art was first opened in 1962 but was closed and reopened on 30 November 2019 after multi-year renovation. It is located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, right next to Space Museum, Peninsula Hotel, Star Avenue and K11 MUSEA. It has great view of the famous Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong and thus has many awesome Instagram spots. Also it has a wide range of displays such as antiques, paintings, sculptures, calligraphy and other art from artists of Hong Kong, China and overseas. Hong Kong Museum of Art is a must-see place for both tourists and art lovers!
香港藝術館經過多年的重建終於在2019年11月重開!集合了各種藝術品包括書法、畫作、古玩等等,香港藝術館非但是一所藝術館,而且更是一個打卡勝地!鄰近維多利亞港、星光大道及K11 MUSEA,香港藝術館有不同的地方值得你們去發掘!
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Ming Art Macau - Art of the Ming Porcelain - China Hong Kong Art
Today I visited the Instituto para os Assuntos Civicos E Municipais and enjoyed the exhibition of The Beginning of the Art of the Ming Porcelain with Chinese ceramics and Ming porcelain from the Ming Dynasty.
Instituto para os Assuntos Civicos E Municipais is the former city municipality from when Macau was still a Portuguese colony. Today it is more like a Macau art museum used for small specialised exhibitions like this with Ming porcelain from the Ming Dynasty.
DAPHNÉ MANDEL X Hong Kong Dimensions
Blue Lotus Gallery is proud to present a new and fascinating group exhibition showcasing the incredible work of award-winning French and Hong Kong Artists, curated by Blue Lotus Gallery and selected for the official program of Le French May 2018. Hong Kong Dimensions will take you on a deeper and unique journey through the iconic city in terms of space, time, the ultra real, the imagined, and the point where they intersect.
This exhibition explores Hong Kong in all its dimensions from above and under, its back alleys, its everyday moments in old neighborhoods, and its collision with nature. Driven by curiosity or a desire for preserving its cultural heritage, each artist expresses his personal testimonial of their beloved city in their own special way from descriptive to fantastical and whimsical. Breaking through the photograph Hong Kong Dimensions brings you work that plays with layers in space and time, where still life comes to life, where the real looks fake and the manipulated looks natural. Having its cornerstone in photography, artists final form varies in distinctive ways from 2D, expanding to 3D work, hand drawings and even moving collages resulting in unique pieces that reveal talent beyond photography. Most of the works that will be shown are unique pieces, ranging from the extreme handmade to the hyper-digital.
+++ workshops, artist talks, book launch and tours are scheduled during the duration of the exhibition
OPENING RECEPTION: 12 May: 3 - 6pm
EXHIBITION DURATION: 12 May to 16 June 2018
ARTIST TALKS:
26 May: 4pm Pete Ross | 5pm Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze + book launch and signing
02 June: 4pm 葉家偉 Alexis Ip | 5pm Daphné Mandel
FOTOMO WORKSHOP: 09 June: 2 - 4pm with 葉家偉 Alexis Ip [for ages 12+]
VENUE: 1606 Chai Wan Industrial City Phase 1, 60 Wing Tai Rd., Chai Wan
OPENING HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
CONTACT:
Press & Inquiries (English):
Christina Jensen: christina@bluelotus-gallery.com
Sarah Greene: sarah@bluelotus-gallery.com
Press & Inquiries (Chinese):
Eunice Lam: eunice@bluelotus-gallery.com
For images and/or interviews with the artist, please contact us.
For more information: bluelotus-gallery.com
Video credit: Jin Heng
Hong Kong Museums
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[160725] #TTTOP x Sotheby's: The Art of Our Time (curated by T.O.P)- October 3, HK.
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Art exhibition: a new way to read Hong Kong and Macao
A new art exhibition suitcase and the city opened on Tuesday at Shun Tak Center in Hong Kong. Two modern artists from Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland interpreted Hong Kong and Macao from new angles with their artworks.
Star Curators : Hong Kong Museum of Art
I always feel that the Hong Kong Museum of Art is like a school. The exhibition hall is like a classroom. The teaching materials and plans are the published works, writings and methods of planning an exhibition. The aim is to gauge how the audience receives our exhibition and what they gain from it.
The China Pavilion of 58th Venice Biennale starts its China tour
The first stop of the tour of China Pavilion of 58th Venice Biennale opened on Saturday at the Guardian Art Center (GAC) in Beijing.
The exhibition is organized by the GAC, supported by China Arts Entertainment Group Ltd. (GAEG), and curated by Wu Hongliang, vice president of Beijing Fine Art Academy.
The exhibition features 34 works of art, covering different types of installations, images, prints, and sculptures.
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HONG KONG DIMENSIONS X Blue Lotus Gallery
Blue Lotus Gallery is proud to present a new and fascinating group exhibition showcasing the incredible work of award winning French and Hong Kong Artists, curated by Blue Lotus Gallery and selected for the official program of Le French May 2018. Hong Kong Dimensions will take you on a deeper and unique journey through the iconic city in terms of space, time, the ultra real, the imagined, and the point where they intersect.
This exhibition explores Hong Kong in all its dimensions from above and under, its back alleys, its every day moments in old neighbourhoods, and its collision with nature. Driven by curiosity or a desire for preserving its cultural heritage, each artist expresses his personal testimonial of their beloved city in their own special way from descriptive to fantastical and whimsical. Breaking through the photograph Hong Kong Dimensions brings you work that plays with layers in space and time, where still life comes to life, where the real looks fake and the manipulated looks natural. Having its corner stone in photography, artists final form varies in distinctive ways from 2D, expanding to 3D work, hand drawings and even moving collages resulting in unique pieces that reveal talent beyond photography. Most of the works that will be shown are unique pieces, ranging from the the extreme handmade to the hyper digital.
+++ workshops, artist talks, book launch and tours are scheduled during the duration of the exhibition
OPENING RECEPTION: 12 May: 3 - 6pm
EXHIBITION DURATION: 12 May to 16 June 2018
ARTIST TALKS:
26 May: 4pm Pete Ross | 5pm Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze + book launch and signing
02 June: 4pm 葉家偉 Alexis Ip | 5pm Daphné Mandel
FOTOMO WORKSHOP: 09 June: 2 - 4pm with 葉家偉 Alexis Ip [for ages 12+]
VENUE: 1606 Chai Wan Industrial City Phase 1, 60 Wing Tai Rd., Chai Wan
OPENING HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
CONTACT:
Press & Inquiries (English):
Christina Jensen: christina@bluelotus-gallery.com
Sarah Greene: sarah@bluelotus-gallery.com
Press & Inquiries (Chinese):
Eunice Lam: eunice@bluelotus-gallery.com
For images and/or interviews with the artist, please contact us.
Hong Kong artists showcase work in modern art exhibition
One of the world's biggest modern art exhibitions has opened in Hong Kong.
This year's Art Basel is showcasing emerging local artists from Asia.
But as China's economy slows down, art collectors are keeping their purse strings tight.
Al Jazeera's Sarah Clarke reports.
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Salon | The Desert of the Real
Li Zhenhua, Curator of Art Basel’s Film sector, and Director & Founder, Beijing Art Lab, Beijing/Zurich, in conversation with Sun Xun, Artist, Beijing, and Zhao Zhao, Artist, Beijing
Date: Saturday, March 26 2016, 12noon to 1pm
Filmed on site at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2016
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HARI LUALHATI : Art Exhibition in Floren Gallery, Hong Kong 2008
Hari Lualhati, Alternatibo, Art Exhibition in Floren Gallery, Hong Kong.
Date: June 13, 2008
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Hari Lualhati is an ARTIST (Painter, Illustrator, Graphic Artist, Designer) born in Philippines and obtained a Degree in Fine Arts in University of the Philippines, Diliman year 2006 (Cum Laude). Hari Lualhati has worked in Manila, Hong Kong and Shenzhen China. Hari is now based in South Africa.
Ten Thousand Buddhas and Hong Kong Heritage Museum - HK Vlog #9
Happy Easter!! On this day in Hong Kong, we did a walking tour in the New Territories. This is the best self-guided walking tour we've ever done - it had a little bit of everything and we (even hubby) really enjoyed it! :)
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 | Highlights
Select gallerists share insights into some of the artworks they exhibited in 2019. Learn from the experts as Taka Ishii discusses Kimiyo Mishima’s 1960s collages, Tyler Rollins explains Sopheap Pich’s sophisticated use of organic materials, and Richard Nagy explains the thinking behind his Egon Schiele solo booth, the artist’s inaugural presentation in Hong Kong. Hunt kastner’s Katherine Kastner and Camille Hunt – the first ever gallerists to represent the Czech Republic at Art Basel Hong Kong – introduce Anna Hulačová’s much-praised concrete sculptures while Empty Gallery’s founder Stephen Cheng presents the technoid paintings of Tishan Hsu.
The Encounters sector, which is dedicated to monumental artworks, was particularly popular. A silver zeppelin courtesy of Lee Bul, topsy-turvy skyscrapers by Elmgreen & Dragset, and an ethereal fleet of threadbare boats by Chiharu Shiota were among the most spectacular pieces featuring in this year’s edition, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor.
Revisit these and many more in our highlights video – and share memories using the hashtag #artbasel. The next Art Basel show will take place in Basel from June 13-16, 2019.
Art & Culture in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is charged with artistic energy, thanks to Art Basel HK, Le French May and a huge Rubber Duck that bring an arty spring. Come and explore the world of arts in Hong Kong, Asia's World City.
East meets west at Hong Kong art show
Gu Wenda's installation, 'United Nations: Man & Space' is towering over the entrance to Hong Kong's Art Basel, a modern and contemporary art show.
Made entirely of human hair, it's part of an ongoing project that the artist has spent over a decade creating.
He's collected human hair strands from around the world to create these monumental installations.
Gu's work is one of many installations found at this year's Art Basel Hong Kong.
It's showcasing 245 premier galleries from 39 countries and territories.
Over half the galleries here are from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, underlining the fair's commitment to featuring the best artworks from the region.
Art enthusiasts from around the globe can come here to view works from internationally-known artists such as Pablo Picasso, Damien Hirst, and Joan Miro.
There's also contemporary artists from the region, including Chinese artists Ai Weiwei and Liu Kuo Sung.
Here, galleries are no longer second-guessing Asia's taste in art.
They're instead testing the market and beginning to showcase their best work.
At the shows preview on Wednesday (14 May), galleries were already reporting strong sales, with pieces by Zhang Enli, Gary Hume and Christian Marclay selling for between $180,000 to $375,000 USD.
Many of the galleries that are participating, particularly from the west now, are no longer trying to pander to a western expectation of what Asian tastes, if such a thing could exist, are, says Magnus Renfrew, the Asia director of Art Basel.
And now people are really bringing their best material, it's absolutely the right way to play it.
Not only has the west changed its approach to Asia's art market, a lot of Chinese buyers are also changing their approach to art.
Co-owner of Galerie Gmurzynska Mathias Rastorter believes there's been a shift in approach from investment buying to collecting for the love of art.
A lot of buying is now differentiated between investment buying or in collecting, he says.
And I think the situation in China has always been more thought of as an investment buying rather than as a collecting. And I think in a positive sense, that seems to be beginning to change.
This is apparent in the way many of the galleries here have made it a point to focus on presentation.
They're showcasing one or two artists, rather than having a variety of works by famous artists.
Rastorter's gallery is showcasing three artists, Fernando Botero, Picasso contemporary Wilfredo Lam and Scott Campbell.
Most of the people that are coming here want to see where you're best at, he says.
And the more you actually show a focus, a concentration on what's your strength in the gallery, the more the credibility comes to buy from you.
Art Basel Hong Kong acts as an important art exchange point between east and west.
Many western art curators and enthusiasts have come here to see what the Asian market has to offer, while Asia is taking a glimpse at what their European counterparts have in store.
For us it's about dialogue, says gallery owner Pearl Lam.
I think art fairs are also about dialogue and how it's opened up to have a cross-cultural activities.
Lam's gallery is showcasing works by a collection of Chinese contemporary artists, including Juju Sun, Zhu Jinshu, and Zhang Jianjun.
There's also American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, who incorporates Chinese texts into her installation pieces.
Lam insists that while Chinese contemporary art is becoming more mainstream and popular, art shouldn't be bound by borders.
Art is not just about passport, she says.
So it's not about nationalities, or not nationals. As they are good artists. So every gallery has the responsibility to reflect that.
Art Basel Hong Kong runs 15-18 May 2014.
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Wendy Wu Tours Asian Cruise with Terracotta Warriors Tours! | Planet Cruise Deal of the Week
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Art Basel in 5 minutes: our critics give their take on Hong Kong's annual art extravaganza
Resident art critic for South China Morning Post Enid Tsui joins up with gallery owner, curator and writer John Batten for a whirlwind tour through the 239 gallery displays of more than 3,000 artists for their own take on what’s hot, what’s interesting – and what works are destined to polarize audiences at Art Basel 2016.