Art Openings Not to Miss: By Artalk
11-10-15
HKELD is going to start covering Hong Kong's awesome live music and visual art scenes starting this month. We're all too happy to partnering with Artalk to help us share their picks of upcoming art openings that you should take note of!
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Artalk is a website and magazine project dedicated to art review. Their focus is not the art, but on themselves and their surroundings. They believe Art is only a medium through which we gain insight about the artist. They believe that art and society are inalienable. Art responds to everyone in the society, regardless of their education, wealth and age. Everyone is entitled to look at art the way they wish to. That’s what they call art for all. To say that an art review contributes to a peaceful world may sound like an exageration. But yes, that’s what they believe. To be considered for a review or a plug, contact them here. Suggestions were made by Sin Ting@Artalk.
***Artalk's Picks***
“good day good night”
After a year of Umbrella Movement, there is an avalanche of art projects to mark its first anniversary. To win majority hearts in politics and social movements you have to view from different angles and keep your discourse concise and precise. In history, photography seems to be an explicit mean to achieve that. Out of many exhibitions, South Ho Siu Nam’s “good day good night” is more like a show-and-tell about his own experiences and perspective during the movement in Admiralty. Besides his photography book launch, the exhibition includes not only black and white photographs but also videos and works combining painting with photography. Happening at Blindspot Gallery from now till 14 November, you will relive the moments of Umbrella Movement and you may find a perspective or two that you missed during that 79 days.
http://www.blindspotgallery.com/en/exhibitions/current/good-day-good-night
“All Happy Returns”
Social movements have provoked thoughts and reflection on humanity, while Hsu Yin Ling’s “All Happy Returns” in Gallery Exit pushes us to another level, to question the essence of Being. The Taiwanese artist is famous for expressing human behaviours and mental states in paintings through the mind’s eyes of a character she created. “All Happy Returns” is set to be an interpretation of emotions from a taxidermist. This character educates himself and transforms the emotions he observed everyday into collages despise his inability to feel. The taxidermist building his cognition of emotions brick by brick like Hsu Yin Ling challenges spectators to rethink the rudiments of Being.
http://www.galleryexit.com/201507.html
《・・・》
Meanwhile in Tgt Art and Design Gallery, 《・・・》Exhibition presents the elementary in visual arts. Dots form lines, from lines we create symbols. During the process of perception, we constantly break down what in front of ours eyes into bits and bobs that are easier to fathom. Then, we construct a meaning based on personal experiences and opinions. 《・・・》is a friendly reminder and practice of this process. In collisions of opinions the artists hope that 《・・・》 would create connections among viewers from different walks of life.
http://www.facebook.com/hktgt
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