One World Exposition brings together 18 media artists from Hong Kong and Mainland China presenting new collaborations and special pieces reflecting on the future of contemporary Chinese art in fields ranging from video and film to lighting, theatre, computer games and interactive media.
Works by 12 of the 18 artists will be exhibited at Osage Kwun Tong, opening on Friday 9 December with a special live online Q&A performance by Wang Jianwei and Danny Yung. Members of the public are invited to set up a Weibo account to participate, or tweet us your questions or email questions@osagegallery.com before Thursday 8 December, 8pm and we will translate them to Chinese and post on your behalf on the night! In addition to the exhibition, there will be a room dedicated to 20 films by video artists from mainland China screened continuously throughout the period. On the same night, a new collaborative installation by Wang Luming and Wang Zhenfei will be launched at Osage Open.
Other participating artists include aaajiao, Cao Fei, Linda Lai, Teddy Lo, Ou Ning, Eric Siu, Johnnie To and Yang Fudong.
Untitled/Again (Marienbad) is a performance-installation inspired by seriality, black swans and Alain Robert-Grillet and Alain Resnais' brilliantly cold classic "Last Year at Marienbad". This seminal piece of modern cinema is legendary for its self-contained yet ambiguous narrative structure in which memory and mores are subject to doubt – and events, locations and personas remain repetitive yet mutable and oblique. Artist Yason Banal forms a contemporary constellation around etiquette, entrapment and ennui by transporting Marienbad to different cities, inhabited by human figurines, sculptural garments and gallery artifacts.
This serial has been exhibited and performed at Osage Gallery in Hong Kong and Singapore, Jakarta Biennale, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, IFA Stuttgart and Berlin, Courtauld Institute of Art and the Tate Modern – traversing geographies, identities, contexts and media, almost always returning to Marienbad.
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osage kwun tong: 08.10.2011 – 09.11.2011
:: MACHINE IN THE BODY
Opening reception: Friday 7 October, 6pm
Artists: Li Xinping
Curators: Sonja Ng
Machine in the Body, a solo exhibition by Beijing based artist Li Xinping presents a select few of the new and old, as well as unfinished works across Li’s prolific career that provide an opportunity to closely examine the painting process and skillful technique by the artist and at the same time, explore the undefined area in which the artist’s practice situates. The subject matter in the paintings ranges from the manifestation of Western scientific motifs to traditional myths and folklores intimately grounded within the contemporary culture of China. This eclectic combination presented in Li’s works defies easy categorization and more importantly, as a result, has ironically positioned Li to be on the outer skirt of both the traditional and contemporary art circles in China today.
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osage kwun tong: 13.08.2011 – 24.9.2011
:: To Be Continued– Hong Kong
Opening reception: 12.08.2011, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Artists: Roberto Chabet
Curators: Ringo Bunoan and Nilo Ilarde
'To Be Continued: Hong Kong' brings together for the first time major works by Roberto Chabet from the 1980s to the present, including his latest and largest installation to date 'One thing after another'. Known as the founding father of conceptual art in the Philippines, this exhibition offers a rare chance to see Chabet's pioneering conceptual work utilising his signature materials - plywood, metal sheets and other common found objects – that have shaped Filipine conceptual art over the past 50 years.
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The Solitude of Jing Hua is a performance-based installation created by Julia Burns, Videotage's fuse:: resident, together with co-artist Enrica Ho. Set in a factory context, the central character, Jing Hua, embodies the insecurities and fears of a forty year-old woman searching for youth and stereotypical beauty. Her search is deeper than vanity; instead, it stems from the fear of solitude in old age. The Solitude of Jing Hua reflects the epidemic of low self esteem among modern women.
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osage kwun tong : 08.07.2011 - 22.07.2011
:: Children's Creative Arts Exhibition – Love . Harmony
Osage Art Foundation is pleased to present the Children's Creative Arts Exhibition – Love . Harmony, an exhibition of more than 200 two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks by over 300 little artists from the nine Hong Kong Christian Service (HKCS) Nursery schools.
Since 2005, Osage Art Foundation has partnered with HKCS in offering professional artistic support and providing assistance in design and publicity. One of the main objectives of the Foundation is to increase community participation in the arts through education and by providing access. This exhibition is a reflection of that commitment. Through this exhibition, and other initiatives such as the Art Initiative Programme (AIP), a pilot programme to introduce art workshops in pre-school curriculums currently being developed, Osage Art Foundation aims to foster the link between education and the arts, nurture creativity and critical thinking, promote and develop innovative practice in research, teaching and learning.
Staged Fictions: Patty Chang, Adrian Wong & Ho Tzu Nyen (opens 24 May) sheds light on the contingent nature of three diasporic artists Patty Chang, Adrian Wong and Ho Tzu Nyen; their video projects tease out the many contradictions on living in the contemporary era and express our inability to discern what is real from the imaginary. Read more ...
Artist: Juan ALCAZAREN, Ranelle DIAL, Roberto CHABET, Nilo ILARDE, Lani MAESTRO, Tozer
PAK, Gary-Ross PASTRANA, Cris VILLANUEVA, William LIM
Curator: Arianna GELLINI and Sonja NG
One of our key missions is to develop home grown curatorial talent. Conceptualized by Osage curatorial staff members Arianna Gellini and Sonja Ng, Points of Ellipsis... (opens 24 May) showcases themes and practices mined from the Osage Art Foundation's Regional Perspectives series of exhibitions on Roberto Chabet. Point of Ellipsis... questions the strategies that give exhibitions their meaning and how individual parts cohere or resist the imposition of a homogenous narrative. Osage Gallery has also invited two local artists Tozer Pak and William Lim to intervene with this project.
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osage kwun tong : 05.03.2011 - 09.05.2011
:: Complete & Unabridged, Part II
Opening reception: 04.03.2011, 6:00pm
Roberto Chabet and 51 artists
Curators: Ringo Bunoan, Isabel Ching and Gary-Ross Pastrana
"Complete & Unabridged, Part II", which opens at Osage Kwun Tong on 4 March ("Part I" opened in Singapore at ICAS on 17 February), is a major exhibition of over 50 contemporary artists from the Philippines, all of whom studied with or were mentored by Roberto Chabet at the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts, or at key artist-run spaces in Manila. Curated by Ringo Bunoan, Isabel Ching and Gary-Ross Pastrana, the wide range of works featured in the exhibition include painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Reflecting the diversity of interests and practices in Philippine art today, they are connected by a continuing discussion on alternative forms and ways of thinking about art - issues that Chabet has consistently raised through his own art, his curated exhibitions and teachings.
Artist Workshop:
5 March 2011 10:30am - 12:00noon
Language: English
Limited number of seats (50), please sign up via email to arianna@oaf.cc
As part of "Complete & Unabridged Part II", OAF in collaboration with Asian Cultural Council (ACC) is presenting an artist Workshop with internationally-acclaimed artist Yason Banal. This artist talk-workshop, for visual arts students, will investigate the difficult process of art making, exploring the dynamic relations between film, photography, installation, text and performance in contemporary art practice.
These media when used have a threefold dimension: as performative components, as means of documentation and as conceptual artworks, creating suggestive but oftentimes obscure artistic metaphors. Drawing inspiration from his own practice as well as other artists', Yason Banal will guide the participants through various concepts, materials and approaches exploring the enigmatic yet critical constellations that life, thought and art can potentially produce now.
Forum:
5 March 2011 4:00pm
Language: English
Limited number of seats, please sign up via email to amiehibbard@osagegallery.com
"Chabet in Three and Four Dimensions" is a forum held in conjunction with the series of four exhibitions centred on pioneering Filipino artist Roberto Chabet, presented by the Osage Art Foundation and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Since his first exhibition in 1961, Chabet has been instrumental in establishing the foundations for contemporary practice in the Philippines. His works, ranging from painting, drawing, collage, sculpture to installation, resist easy categorisation.
Please join us as exhibition curators Gary-Ross Pastrana, Ringo Bunoan and Isabel Ching discuss the different dimensions of Chabet's art practice, and Bangkok curator Ark Fongsmut adds his perspective on conceptual art practices in Thailand. Hong Kong-based writer and critic John Batten will act as respondent, and Charles Merewether and Lee Weng Choy will moderate the session and following discussion.
osage kwun tong : 22.01.2011 - 21.02.2011
:: 'Watching Soaps (I can't recall the day that I last heard from you.)'
Private view and reception: 21.01.2011, 6pm-8pm
Known for making in situ paintings for different situations, either for picnics and social gatherings, public interventions or at a prison visit, Hong Kong artist Lee Kit's interest is to redefine how we identify with the everyday by staging communal activities with his artworks and to seek an uncanny interpretation of an object. For this exhibition, Lee will exhibit a series of artworks that allude to multiple stories inside a single space. The unfolding of contradictory narratives transforms the exhibition site into a temporary film set, upstaging a tension between what is real and artificial, still and theatrical. What is left is an emotionally charged state, open for the audiences' improvisation and imagination, and which requires the attention of a careful gaze.
osage kwun tong : 22.01.2011 - 21.02.2011
:: A Lesson in Extremes
Private view and reception: 21.01.2011, 6pm-8pm
Osage presents A Lesson in Extremes, a group show of video works by Hu Xiangqian, Tsui Kuang-Yu, WAZA Group and Jun Yang.
The four video works presented in A Lesson in Extremes collectively explore exaggerated contexts, forms, conditions, and scenarios as a way of analyzing and disclosing the rifts that define coming to terms with our own lived reality. Pairing acute psychic distance or highlighting dramatic juxtapositions between past and present, local and global, these works not only reflect the notion of the extreme but what it means to inhabit a space at the margins of perceived normalcy.
Combining an air of performativity and a penchant for placing oneself in radical or incongruous situations, works by Hu Xiangqian and Tsui Kuang-Yu attempt to reveal the artist's implicit role in encountering and interpreting his own surroundings; while works by WAZA Group and Jun Yang choose a more abstract approach, reflecting upon urban change and the inner workings of the imagination and memory.
2010
osage kwun tong : 27.11.2010 - 16.01.2011
:: An Unexpected Turn of Events
Private view and reception: 26.11.2010, 6pm-8pm
Chen Shaoxiong and Tsuyoshi Ozawa have produced many significant collaborative projects since 2005 that express our fate and destiny. Though they originate from different countries and cultural backgrounds, their collaborative practices bear strong parallels whilst retaining their individual interest. By tracing the development of the two mid-career artists and exhibiting selected artworks from the past decade, this exhibition attempts to decode the slippage between the artists' subjectivities and their search for a common creative ground.
The two artists share many similar core interests, from utilizing the urban space as a site for improvisation to deconstructing the myth of a nation and its history; critiquing global politics and the media to coming to terms with violence and terror; exposing the social and physical conformity of urban life to reflecting on our essential human needs, their contingent approach towards art making is often in situ by nature and based on free will, like a pair of tricksters turning a loaded subject into something light hearted and even humorous.
osage kwun tong : 19.09.2010 - 07.11.2010
:: Lui Chun Kwong. You Are Here, I Am Not. From Ho Siu Kee to Kong Chun Hei
Lui Chun Kwong's artworks serve as the backbone of You Are Here, I Am Not. The exhibition consists of works by more than fifty Hong Kong artists. All the participating artists are graduates of the Fine Arts Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where Lui taught for more than twenty years. For this exhibition, Lui sees his works as ready-mades that become the starting point for collaboration with his former students. After initial discussions with Lui, the artists are at complete liberty to use the work, and even transform it with their own ideas and interpretations, to create a new work. With Lui's artworks as the point of departure, this exhibition will examine the possibilities resulting from collaboration between Lui and his former students and will further explore the intricate and complex relationship between teacher and student and its role in artistic creation. Through this fellowship of past teacher-student relations and their collaboration as artists in the present, as well as a platform to differentiate from their usual mode of thinking and working, it will also be an examination of the artistic practices of each artist in the exhibition.
Lui Chun Kwong (b. 1956) attended art courses under the Department of Extra-mural Studies at The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong before he studied in the Fine Arts Department of the National Taiwan Normal University. He joined the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 and further gained an MA degree from Goldsmiths College, under the University of London in 1994. He also founded The Hong Kong Modern Art Society of Watercolours with his fellow artists in 1988 and chaired the society for the first three years. Between 1998 and 2002, he served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society. His recent exhibitions include Legacy and Creations: Ink Art vs Ink Art at the Shanghai Art Museum (2010) and Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chun Kwong, Yan Shan Chun at Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong (2009). He is currently an honorary museum advisor to the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
Private view and reception: 18.09.2010, 5pm-8pm
osage kwun tong : 17.07.2010 - 12.09.2010
:: Java's Machine: Phantasmagoria by Jompet
Java's Machine: Phantasmagoriais the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong of Indonesian artist Augustinus Kuswidananto (a.k.a. Jompet). Jompet's work takes, as its starting point, the history of Java and explores syncretism or strategies to reconcile dispersed and disparate points of reference in Java's cultural history. This is exemplified by Java, the War of Ghosts, the centrepiece of the exhibition, which also, in turn, frames the other installations and video works in the exhibition. Jompet's work can be read as a discourse on post-colonialism and globalisation, a celebration of unruly beauty. As with Java's heritage, harmony can be negotiated in the multiplicity of patches that make up today's global community.
Jompet was born in 1976 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He graduated from Gadjah Mada University in 1999 with a degree in Social and Political Science. His multi-disciplinary practice involves installation, video, performance and music, delving into a wide range of subjects such as history and civilisation, the past and modernity, and technology and the spiritual realm. His work has been exhibited in many international exhibitions including Asia Art Award, Seoul, South Korea (2010), Oasis To Be, Bali (2010), Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia (2009), 10th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France (2009), Beyond the Dutch, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands (2009), Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan (2008) and Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan (2005).
Private view and reception: 16.07.2010, 6pm to 8pm
osage kwun tong : 29.05.2010 - 10.07.2010
:: Lee Mingwei: Liquid Forms
Curated by Eugene Tan
Lee Mingwei's first exhibition in Hong Kong features a series of works by the New York based artist, including a debut presentation of his latest work, Stone Project. Lee Mingwei has continually focused on themes of trust and self-awareness in projects that create a potential discovery and renewal. Lee has numerous solo exhibitions in USA, Taiwan, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand and his works have been included in many major international exhibitions.
Private view and reception: 28.05.2010, 6pm-9pm
osage kwun tong : 01.05.2010 - 10.07.2010
::The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today
Curated by Eugene Tan
Artists: Chen Jie, Ding Yi, Gong Jian, Masato Kobayashi, Jane Lee, Lee Kit, Michael Lin, Liu Wei, Milenko Prvacki, Yang Jiechang, Zhao Zhao
The Burden of Representation explores the state of abstraction in Asia today. In particular, the exhibition examines how artists in Asia have been and are continuing to rethink abstraction's relationship to representation. To what extent is abstraction about pure form, its representation or relationship to reality, or about representing the 'unrepresentable'? The exhibition demonstrates some of the positions in abstract painting in Asia today, and highlights how abstraction has become a point of convergence for different ideas about painting, including the social and the political. This in turn demonstrates the possibilities for abstract painting and its significance for cultural production today, in a context dominated by figurative and realist modes of painting.
Private view and reception: 30.04.2010, 6pm to 8pm
PROGRAMMES
Registration and enquiry: Sonja Ng, sonjang@osagegallery.com, (852) 2793 4817
30.04.2010, 5pm-6pm
EXHIBITION TOUR BY CURATOR EUGENE TAN
with artists Masato Kobayashi, Jane Lee, Lee Kit and Milenko Prvacki
01.05.2010, 3pm-4pm
LECTURE: 'HARDCORE AND IMPURE: ABSTRACT PAINTING TODAY'
BY TONY GODFREY, Programme Director, MA in Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art - Singapore, and Author of Painting Today (Phaidon, 2009)
Organised in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art - Singapore
A traditional way of looking at abstract expressionist painting has been to think of it as either colour field (Newman, Rothko) or gestural (Pollock, De Kooning). These terms do not seem very useful nowadays but they do represent two perennial trends within abstraction: firstly towards geometry and a sense of purity; secondly towards a more intuitive expression of the body (and mind?) through mark making. How can we rethink this today after two decades when irony and appropriation were so rife? Renaming the dichotomy 'hard-core' and 'impure', Tony Godfrey looks at recent abstract painting from Europe, America and Asia and concludes by asking how important will abstraction be within Asia in the coming years.
osage kwun tong : 08.05.2010 - 21.05.2010
::Children's Creative Art Exhibition: Symphony of Life
Osage Art Foundation is pleased to present the Children's Creative Arts Exhibition - Symphony of Life, an exhibition of more than 200 two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks by over 300 little artists from the nine Hong Kong Christian Service (HKCS) Nursery schools.
Since 2005, Osage Art Foundation has partnered with HKCS in offering professional artistic support and providing assistance in design and publicity. One of the main objectives of the Foundation is to increase community participation in the arts through education and by providing access. This exhibition is a reflection of that commitment. Through this exhibition, and other initiatives such as the Art Initiative Programme (AIP), a pilot programme to introduce art workshops in pre-school curriculums currently being developed, Osage Art Foundation aims to foster the link between education and the arts, nurture creativity and critical thinking, promote and develop innovative practice in research, teaching and learning.
The works exhibited are for sale and all proceeds will be donated to the Hong Kong Christian Service Children's Art Development Fund.
We would like to invite students and teachers of your institution to engage in guided visits of the above exhibitions during the exhibition period.
Location: Osage Kwun Tong, 5/F Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. For further information, please contact Sonja Ng at 2793-4817.
Private view and reception: 07.05.2010, 5:30pm
osage kwun tong : 27.03.2010-18.04.2010
::Parallel Worlds: Sara Tse and Shirley Tse
Parallel Worlds: Sara Tse and Shirley Tse presents the works of two closely-related artists working with sculpture and objects. The two sisters are internationally acclaimed artists, but living in different worlds: Sara Tse is based in Hong Kong and Shirley Tse has been based in Los Angeles since 1990. Both graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong but have taken different paths. They use different languages in their daily lives and belong to two different art communities. And despite the globalisation of the art world, their practices are informed and contextualised by different trajectories of contemporary art. This will be the first time works by the Tse sisters will be presented side by side. The exhibition will feature recent work as well as earlier works, which will exemplify and provide a deeper understanding of their works and practices, their connections, relationships as well as differences.
Private view and reception: Friday 26 March 2010, 6pm
PROGRAMMES
27.03.2010, 3pm-4:30pm
ARTIST TALK BY SARA TSE AND SHIRLEY TSE
Registration: info@osagegallery.com (852) 2793 4817
11.04.2010, 3pm-5pm
WORKSHOP
In 2007, Sara Tse made use of her friends' old blankets to cut up and weave together to make her brother's tricycle. Once she fell asleep whilst she was sewing. In her dreams, Sara travelled back into her childhood and fulfilled many of her past wishes. In this workshop, Sara will ask participants to bring old items of clothing or a blanket to reconstruct forgotten objects we once longed for as a child. Through the process of sewing and stitching we can recover past desires and experience the joys of dreaming again.
* Basic sewing technique is required.
Registration: Vivian Poon (852) 2995 7438
osage kwun tong : 27.03.2010-18.04.2010
::FUGUE in the key of UNDERSTANDING
Para/site Art Space - Hong Kong Jockey Club Curatorial Training Programme
Supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Osage Art Foundation
osage kwun tong : 23.01.2010-28.02.2010extended till 14.03.2010
:: Biography
Participating artists: Hu Xianqian (Guangzhou), Li Ming (Hangzhou), Li Mu (Shanghai), Tang Dixin (Shanghai), and Zhao Zhao (Beijing)
Curated by Biljana Ciric and Khim Ong
A new generation of artists in China today occupies a peculiar position. Weary of academy traditions, the overkill of political pop and cynical realisms, yet keenly aware and critical of contemporary phenomenon, these artists often possess strong individual expressions whose works create small waves, albeit contained within a close-knitted art circle and are less talked about nor circulated. The emergence of artist groups such as Shuang Fei, Shufu, and Observation Society; and collective activities such as Small Production, and Jump seem to suggest a need for a stronger collective voice, which are not taken seriously or which some may dismiss as being 'comfort zones' for the insecure.
Biography is a selective examination of these 'individual expressions'. The artists included in this exhibition--Hu Xiangqian, Li Ming, Li Mu, Tang Dixin, and Zhao Zhao--belong to a new generation of artists whose works are arguably symptomatic of the youths in China today: alternately personal, rebellious, indifferent, absurd...
Opening Reception: Friday, 22 January 2010, 6:00pm
:: Jane Lee | Lee Kit | Donna Ong
Jane Lee's works examines painting by pushing the limits of the materials and techniques used in painting. Her paintings highlight their processes to draw attention to the way the paintings have been made or constructed, and in so doing re-examine painting's significance and relevance for contemporary art practice.
Lee Kit's hand-painted cloths have been used on different occasions: as a towel, a tablecloth, curtains and bed sheet. These striped or grid-pattern cloths are mounted on the walls, accompanied by a photograph documenting how they have been used. They were washed, sullied or felt. Every touch, every trace of the event are recorded.
In Donna Ong's latest installations, which follows from her Crystal City installation (first shown at the National Museum of Singapore in 2009), glass bottles, jars, cups, bowls and decanters are used to create the skyline of a glass city. The configuration of these delicately assembled glass towers and interstitial space constructed a cityscape of a familiar yet unknown metropolitan.
2009
osage kwun tong : 04.12.2009-17.01.2010
:: Jiang Zhi : Attitude
Curated by Bao Dong
Following its debut in Osage Shanghai in September this year, Jiang Zhi: Attitude at Osage Kwun Tong features an expansion of the first presentation, with new works added to the exhibition. The exhibition will then travel to Beijing in 2010.
Taking the concept of 'attitude' as a point of departure, Jiang Zhi explores how 'attitude' is not simply a conscious behaviour, nor merely an expression of a point of view, but a form of social rhetoric where every form of 'attitude' is a node in the complex web of meaning-making. This exhibition is an investigation into, and a rewriting of, the phenomenon behind rhetorical expressions. Jiang extracts fragments of the social rhetorical as found in real life situations and reconstructs them, and in the process, breaks the chain of meanings. Stripped of its language-signifier, 'attitude' reveals its own significance, bringing forth the criticality that lies at the heart of the deconstruction.
Attitude in Hong Kong is an expansion of the first presentation, not only because it has included more works, but more importantly, how these works extends from the issues examined, allowing for new layers of meanings to emerge.
Opening Reception: Thursday, 3 December 2009, 6:00pm
Organised by Osage Art Foundation
Part of October Contemporary 2009
A Blow to the Everyday signifies a call to transform and awaken everyday awareness by embroiling people in collective fantasies and horrors and other provocative documents. It also implies questioning, through the practice of contemporary Japanese artists, the kind of involvement the individual activities of artists can have with communities and society at large and the kinds of communication and imagination they can stimulate in late-finance capitalist Japan.
A Blow to the Everyday is also the story of the survival of the artists concerned, as well an attempt to recall the reality of a different life through involvement with situations and people in the city. Their projects are nonsensical and absurd and may at times even appear to resemble the actions of the mythical figure Sisyphus. However, they also represent an earnest exploration of the possibilities of the only exchanges possible in the context of the actuality of the here and now.
Public Programmes: 10 October 2009
10:30am 'Contemporary Japanese Art'
By Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
11:30am Panel Discussion: 'Asia Art Today'
Participants: Tobias Berger, Patrick D Flores, and Yuko Hasegawa
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osage kwun tong: 10.10.2009 to 29.11.2009
:: (last) intervention
Artists :
Kingsley Ng, Samson Young
Organised by Osage Art Foundation
Part of October Contemporary 2009
(last) intervention presents new works by Kingsley Ng and Samson Young, two of Hong Kong's emerging generation of tech-savvy multi-disciplinarians.
Kingsley Ng is known for his intensely subtle poeticism, while Samson Young's work is typified by schizophrenic juxtaposition of rich darkness and child-like imageries; yet, both share a concern for the deployment of sound in immersive multi-media experiences. The pair takes 'Now or Never' as a carte blanche, a call-to-arms to make art like there's no tomorrow, and an opportunity in historicising the Now and the Here.
Focusing on the rapidly-disappearing Kwun Tong as a site of social intervention and creative meditation, the pair will create contrasting pieces that seek to re-define 'intervention' as an act of remembering, an act of inscribing time, a way of participating in Being, and a way of negotiating competing claims for justice and acts of witnessing.
Opening Reception: 09.10.2009, 6:00pm
Urban Palimpsest: a twilight sound-walk by Samson Young
Date : 17 October 2009
Time : 7am
Samson Young will lead participants through a sonic excursion of Kwun Tong at sunrise. A small group of walkers will be guided through an intimate tour to discover little-known spots in Kwun Tong, while listening to modified environment sounds / electronic compositions streaming from portable listening devices. Urban Palimpsest is a meditative inquiry into the connection between urban spaces and our collective sonic imagination, an exercise in distrusting the ears, and a momentary disruption of sonic judgement. The sound-walk will last for 45 minutes.
Registration & Enquiry: (852) 2793 4817 or info@oaf.cc
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osage kwun tong: 21.08.2009 to 04.10.2009
:: Cheo Chai-Hiang : The Story of Money
Cheo Chai-Hiang's The Story of Money highlights the ingenuity of the Chinese language, while at the same time alludes to its hidden layers of meaning in the context of the contemporary capitalist society.
Cheo Chai-Hiang (b. 1946) is an artist, lecturer, writer and independent curator who has worked in Singapore, UK, Spain, Italy, Australia and China. He has had many solo shows in Singapore, Italy, Australia and China and has also exhibited in international exhibitions, most recently, the Singapore Biennale 2008. Cheo has also been selected to participate in the upcoming Asia Pacific Triennale 2009.
osage kwun tong: 21.08.2009 to 04.10.2009
:: Nipan Oranniwesna : Being......at Home
Nipan Oranniwesna's Being......at Home explores the fragile state of contemporary societies in the age of globalisation, the related notion of nationalism, both within the context of Thailand, as well as globally. A Thai of Chinese descent, he addresses the issue of identity and its link to the notion of home.
Nipan Oranniwesna (b. 1962) graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from Silpakorn University, Bangkok and received his MFA and Doctoral degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Art & Music. In addition to the exhibition Globalization...Please Slow Down at the Thai Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), he has participated in numerous exhibitions within Asia. He lives in Bangkok where he is Head of Visual Art Department, School of Fine & Applied Art, Bangkok University.
osage kwun tong: 21.08.2009 to 04.10.2009
:: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu : Hong Kong Intervention
Sun Yuan's & Peng Yu's Hong Kong Intervention seeks to explore the social fabric of contemporary societies, taking Hong Kong as the site for their investigation. The project invites the participation of more than 100 Filipino domestic workers. These domestic workers works within the most intimate space of a household and yet, do not form part of that household. Their 'invisibility' within the lives of their employers alludes to the faux notion of globalisation and social integration, ironically often referred to and acknowledged as a global phenomena but which does not actually exist at the most fundamental level of our society.
Sun Yuan (b. 1972) and Peng Yu (b. 1974) both graduated from the oil painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and live and work in Beijing. They have been collaborating since 2000 and are two of China's most controversial artists, renown for working with extreme materials such as human fat tissue, live animals, and baby cadavers to deal with issues of perception, death, and the human condition.
Opening reception: Friday, 21 August 2009, 6:00pm
Artist-in-Conversation
Saturday, 22 August 2009
2:00pm
Cheo Chai-Hiang with Chai Chang Hwang and Isabel Ching
Dragon, Tigers and Lions: Contemporary Art in China and Southeast Asia
Speakers:
Dr Patrick D Flores, Lee Weng Choy, Davide Quadrio
Moderator:
Dr Eugene Tan
Venue:
Osage Kwun Tong
Language:
English
Exhibition Tours
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 3:00pm
Sunday, 27 September 2009, 3:00pm
Venue:
Osage Kwun Tong
Language:
English
The Story of Money, Being......at Home, and Hong Kong Intervention continue till 4 October 2009
osage kwun tong: 04.07.2009 to 16.08.2009
:: Dwelling
Artists: Gavin Au Ka Yiu, Au Wah Yan, Kwan Sheung Chi, Hanison Lau Hok Shing, Leung Chi Wo, Jonathan Hoi Yat Leung, Kimhoo So & Ahong Cheung, Samuel Adam Swope, Tsang Chui Mei, Wong Chun Hei, Kacey Wong, Yeung Hok Tak
Curated by Jeff Leung
The exhibition engages with the issue of space and examines three aspects. ‘Space for Practice’ focuses on the physical space that is in actual use, the limits and control implied or directly shown through its manipulation/operation, which reflects the common quality of people utilising compact space and reveals symbols of a socioeconomic class symbol ingrained in different homes. ‘Space out of Space’ examines how individual space is created beyond the constraints of physical space as the artists extend their private space in a non-confrontational way, they employ immediate spatial tactics in a predetermined space to create a self-sustained ‘Little Paradise’.Finall, ‘Space as a Metaphor’ portrays space as a site for ‘signification' through the work of the artists.
The exhibition invites viewers to re-imagine, through the artists’ experiences, their own living spaces in various perspectives and opens up possibilities for its imaginative use.
Artists' Talks
Saturday 25 July 2009
3:00pm
Hanison Lau Hok Shing and Tsang Chui Mei
Venue: Osage Kwun Tong
Saturday 1 August 2009
3:00pm
Wong Chun Hei and Kimhoo So & Ahong Cheung
Venue: Osage Kwun Tong
Dwelling continues until 16 August 2009
osage kwun tong: 04.07.2009 to 16.08.2009
:: Children's Creative Arts Exhibition:
Their Melodic Palette
Osage Art Foundation is pleased to host the Children’s Creative Arts Exhibition, an exhibition of more than 200 two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks by over 300 little artists from the nine Hong Kong Christian Service (HKCS) Nursery schools.
Since 2005, Osage Art Foundation has partnered with HKCS in offering professional artistic support and providing assistance in design and publicity. One of the main objectives of the Foundation is to increase community participation in the arts through education and by providing access. This exhibition is a reflection of that commitment. Through this exhibition, and other initiatives such as the Art Initiative Programme (AIP), a pilot programme to introduce art workshops in pre-school curriculums currently being developed, Osage Art Foundation aims to foster the link between education and the arts, nurture creativity and critical thinking, promote and develop innovative practice in research, teaching and learning.
The works exhibited are for sale and all proceeds will be donated to the Hong Kong Christian Service Children’s Art Development Fund.
Their Melodic Palette continues until 16 August 2009
We would like to invite students and teachers of your institution to engage in guided visits of the above exhibitions during the exhibition period.
Location: Osage Kwun Tong, 5/F Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. For further information, please contact Anne Chan or Alice Wong at 2793-4817.
osage kwun tong: 30.02.2009 to 28.06.2009
:: Beyond the Image
Liang Quan, Lui Chunkwong, Yan Shanchun
Osage Gallery is pleased to present Beyond the Image, an exhibition of three of the most established abstract painters in the region, Liang Quan, Lui Chunkwong, and Yan Shanchun. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to bring together works by the three artists to audiences in Hong Kong. Although distinctly different in their approaches to painting, their works explore the intricate relationships between tradition and innovation, abstraction and representation, real space and poetic imagination.
osage kwun tong: 30.05.2009 to 28.06.2009
:: Feigned Innocence: We all Look
Artists: Simon Birch, Julia Burns, Eva Chan, Fanny Cheuk, Christopher Cheung, Matina Cheung, Siu Chong, Almond Chu, Henry Chu, Silas Fong, Norman Ford, Laleeskin, Jonathan Hoi Yat Leung, Manu Luksch, Christian Niccoli, Steven Schkolne, Sinsong, The Surveillance Camera Players, Samuel Adam Swope, Yangachi
Curated by Evangelo Costadimas, Lam Hoi Sin, Iris Lo and Nana Euna-Seo
An exhibition that explores looking or being looked at. The give and take between the watcher and the watched, an interplay of power and desire. Four stories in four self-contained rooms that challenge prescribed ways of visual conduct in human nature. Stories that tread on the fine lines between a spectator and an inspector, an observier or a spy, a watcher and a voyeur.
This exhibition is curated by the students of the 08/09 Para/Site Art Space - Hong Kong Jockey Club Curatorial Training Programme.
osage kwun tong: 27.02.2009 to 24.05.2009
:: Some Rooms (Hong Kong)
Artists: Silas Fong (Hong Kong), Doris Wong (Hong Kong), Tintin Wulia (Indonesia), Vincent Leong (Malaysia), Poklong Anading (Philippines), Louie Cordero (Philippines), Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore), Donna Ong (Singapore), Pratchaya Phinthong (Thailand) and Wit Pimkanchanapong (Thailand)
Curators: Kate Chattiya (Thailand), Isabel Ching (Singapore), Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya (Hong Kong), Eva McGovern (Malaysia) and June Yap (Singapore)
Osage Gallery is pleased to present Some Rooms, the second in an annual series of exhibitions that explore collaboration and curatorial process. This year, the exhibition will take place across two venues, Osage Kwun Tong in Hong Kong and Osage Shanghai, featuring fourteen of the most exciting artists from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, working with diverse styles and mediums. These fourteen artists will collaborate individually with one of six curators, also based in the region. In this way, the exhibition becomes a platform for the artists to extend their practice, or to explore a new direction in their work, in collaboration with the curator they are working with. Some Rooms will not only introduce the work of these emerging artists but also demonstrate the potential and possibilities that can emerge from meaningful curatorial dialogue and collaboration, when the starting point taken are those of the artists’ individual practices.
Some Sounds Some Spaces marks the closing day of Some Rooms a three-month long exhibition that explores artistic collaboration and curatorial practice. Taking its cue from the main goal of the exhibition, Some Sounds Some Spaces is the first step in the development of a project that aims at integrating curatorship, as currently practiced in the visual art and new media art context, with traditional musical performance.
2008
osage kwun tong: 28.11.2008 to 08.02.2009
:: Miao Xiaochun : Microcosm
Osage Kwun Tong is proud to present a multimedia exhibition of Beijing-based artist Miao Xiaochun’s newest works. His computer generated imagery and video works will be shown alongside works on traditional Xuan paper, inkjet on canvas and hand embroidered silk. The exhibition is built around a centerpiece called Microcosm, which is Miao’s interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch’s famous fifteenth century masterpiece, the Garden of Earthly Delights. Miao's Xuan paper prints and silk embroidery pieces, which he refers to as “line” works, relate to his examination of the expressive power of the line, the inspiration for which came about whilst he was developing the 3D computer modeling for Microcosm.
Presetnted by Osage Art Foundation as its participation in October Contermporary 2008, Site:Seeing is a new media art exhibition that features Kingsley Ng and Zulkifle Mahmod from Hong Kong and Singapore respectively. Each presents a new media art project that seeks to examine the relationship between public spaces and a city's transient inhabitants, as well as to subvert the usual experience of physical sensorial bombardment that comes with viewing the city’s attractions. Site:Seeing aims to bring to question the operation of desire related to viewing tourist sites and the role of human-locale interaction in the act of touring under these post-modern urban circumstances that go towards defining a city’s identity. By preferring phenomenon that goes un-noticed, it variously highlights, sidesteps and questions the current technology that facilities the archiving of travel and the desire that feeds such technology.
osage kwun tong: 10.10.2008 - 16.11.2008
:: Jiang Zhi: ON THE WHITE
ON THE WHITE is Jiang Zhi's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. It is an introspective examination of confrontation, entanglement, coexistence and contradictions. A male and a female body move under the white cloth. Rather than emphasizing gender difference, the bodies seem to be governed by mystical force and tension, indicating a sort of yin/yang co-dependence that underlies the basis of life. Indistinct forces are shown to be at work, intimating what is experienced and felt rather than theorized or verbalized. The white cloth manifests a fluid form and visual/conceptual ambiguity from which can arise intuition, direct insights and a nuanced understanding that approaches the truth.
Curated by Isabel Ching
osage kwun tong: 05.09.2008 - 06.10.2008
:: Futuramanila
FUTURAMANILA is a group exhibition comprised of 23 contemporary Filipino artists brought together by an association created through artist-run spaces and exchange residency programs and who practice both in the Philippines and abroad. These artists who exhibit their works locally and internationally all possess a mutual connection with the collective Filipino identity. Along with this, their cross-cultural relations reinforce the core of the exhibit, providing a discussion drawn from various creative viewpoints.
Miao’s art practice involves a thoughtful exploration of major philosophical questions. His work addresses challenging issues of authorship and originality, while the works themselves are distinctive and easily recognizable as his own. He appropriates images from reproductions of masterpieces of Western art and re-works them into entirely new contemporary contexts.
osage kwun tong: 10.10.2007 - 18.11.2007
:: Siren: New Media Art
Siren: New Media Art presented by the Osage Art Foundation as its participation in October Contemporary 2007 is a collaboration with a number of Hong Kong’s most exciting young artists. Siren is a theoretical and physical space in which artists will develop new work that responds to the theme of October Contemporary and their immediate environment.
Siren includes a video and sound installation by Christopher Lau and Samson Young, new performance pieces by choreographers Nina Habulan-Gelladuga and Koala Yip and dancer Tomas Belen, an installation by new media artists John Wong and Pong Lam, and performances by a quartet from the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra.
Artist: Patricia CHIU, Alok / ahshun aka bjornho / Oetzi.P / Shelf-Index / Wong Chung-fai, Jamie JIM, LAM Tim Wai, Wilson TSANG, Moodless
“Food is art to our body, art is food to our soul” - LiFeast is a two-week art and food festival packed with exhibitions and performances. As a part of the Osage Sigma Projects, LiFeast is created to bring great sound, visual and performance art together with delicious food to Hong Kong audience, in the heart of the city. This event supports emerging artists and cutting-edge art forms from Hong Kong and the region. Read more ...
2011
osage soho: 26.11.2011 – 08.01.2012
:: Solo Exhibition by Kingsley Ng
Opening reception: Friday 25 November, 6pm- 8pm
Artist: Kingsley Ng
Curator: Arianna Gellini
As if flowing from a hypnagogic state, “Solo exhibition by Kingsley Ng” further draws us into the threshold of consciousness. In a quest for pure aesthetic synthesis, Ng is exploring the interstice of artistic creation, that divine moment where boundaries are distorted and thought, image and form are dissolved in a physical reality that sits just in the middle between possibility and reality. This Utopian space, this interstice is where dualities are pacified, where possibilities become factual tendencies for something, where these conflicting forces are neutralized in a perfect balance while complimenting each other. What we see is in reality a thought without an image, a series of codes, of axioms that deliberately render visible pure thoughts into rhizomes of reflections. Read more ...
osage soho: 22.10.2011 – 21.11.2011
:: Elsewhere: Au Hoi Lam and Sara Tse
Opening reception: Friday 21 October, 6pm
Artist: Au Hoi Lam and Sara Tse
Curator: Sonja Ng
"Elsewhere" marks the first collaboration between two local Hong Kong artists, Au Hoi Lam and Sara Tse. The exhibition looks into the idea of the non-linear journey navigated by the hints and fragments within the two artists’ own intertwining memory, dream, and experience, where hidden meanings and interpretation together form as one tale. Works in the gallery space are souvenirs, objects of desire attach to significant milestones within this imaginary journey, away from the here, and the now. Read more ...
osage soho: 17.09.2011 – 16.10.2011
:: PRELUDE A L’APRES MIDI D’UN FAUNE
Opening reception: Friday 16 September, 6pm
Artist: Jane Lee
Curator: Arianna Gellini
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.
- Claude Debussy
Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune presents a solo exhibition of iconic pieces and recent artworks by Singapore-based artist Jane Lee. Lee moves away from the restrictions of traditional compositional structure and instead explores the realm of sculpture within painting and the origin of paint: Colour. In her abstractions, colour has not only a highly attractive quality but more importantly it has an objectified presence. It invades and conquers the space in morbid and elliptical convulsions. In Lee’s artworks, colour becomes the composition itself. It subsumes matter into form; destructs the painting surface in agglomerates of colourful substance. From a pure two-dimensional entity, it explodes into a flourishing three dimensional object.
Complementing the large-scale exhibition 'To Be Continued – Hong Kong' at Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong is 'Imagined Geographies' at Osage Gallery, Soho – a special four week viewing of 30 new unique pencil on paper drawings by Roberto Chabet.
Drawing is a dot.
Drawing is another dot.
Drawing is one dot drawn to the other.
Drawing is a dot, a dash.
Drawing is a line.
Drawing is distance, measure.
Drawing delineates, demarcates, delimits.
Drawing is a line closing, enclosing.
Drawing is a line disclosing shapes.
Drawing shapes spaces, spaces shapes.
Drawing is interval, gaps.
Drawing is time.
Drawing is space between the shapes of now, and of then, and of when.
Drawing is a moment, and another moment, and other moments.
Drawing is a constellation of moments,
Circular, elliptical, spiraling,
Concentric, eccentric,
Random, haphazard accidental.
Drawing is interval, gaps.
Drawing crosses over, falls into, fills gaps.
Drawing skips, shifts, slips, slides, slithers.
Drawing figures, is figured.
Drawing pulls, pushes, tugs, drags.
Drawing is friction, gravity.
Earth draws, is drawn, draws maps.
Sun draws, draws shadows, photos.
Moon draws tides.
Stars draw mishaps, draw dreams, night creatures,
Crabs, goats, scorpions, twins, virgins.
Drawing feels, touches.
Fingers draw.
Hand draws.
The eye draws,
Draws the hand to draw.
The mind draws,
Draws the eye
To draw the hand
To draw the mind
To draw.
Drawing traces,
Erases gaps between hand, eye, mind.
Drawing thinks, thinks drawing.
Drawing is a word,
Written is drawn,
Is drawing,
Spoken utters.
Drawing is a verb.
Drawings sits, lies, stands still, walks,
Contemplating, meditating, unthinking
Sitting, lying, standing still, walking.
Drawing is pulse.
Drawing is breath.
Drawing is breath drawn.
Drawing is breath withdrawn.
Drawing is breath redrawn.
Drawing is change.
Drawing is chance.
Drawing folds,
Drawing enfolds,
Drawing, like an exquisite corpse,
Unfolds.
- Roberto Chabet "Lines on Drawing", 1999
Artists: Felix Bacolor, Yan Shan Chun, Tozer Pak, Shirley Tse, Wah Nu
Curators: Arianna Gellini and Sonja Ng
Osage Soho is pleased to present group exhibition Slipping Transmission. Through the works of Felix Bacolor, Yan Shan Chun, Tozer Pak and Shirley Tse, Wah Nu, Slipping Transmission traces and magnifies the evasive and implicit line that slips in between performing states and still moments of the everyday life. With the aid of photography, video, painting, and sculptural objects, the exhibition at the same time aims to explore the imperfections of these mediums in preserving and recording the slippage of time. Read more ...
osage soho : 30.07.2011 [Live performances: 3pm or 7pm]
:: AQUA Transmission
Musician: Vicky Shin
Tickets: HKD120/performance (one drink included)
Reservations: T +852 2537 0688 or info@osagesigma.com
Vicky Shin’s renowned water percussion will dialogue with the artworks in Slipping Transmission - the current exhibition at Osage Gallery, Soho. A suggestive performance featuring water and fire, AQUA Transmission will provide a sensorial musical journey transforming the dialogue between visual art and performing art within the space.
osage soho : 20.05.2011 - 10.07.2011
:: LSSIISLTENNT
Private viewing: 19.05.2011, 6pm to 8pm
Artist: Poklong Anading
Curator: David Chan
LSSIISLTENNT (opens 20 May) is a solo exhibition of emerging Manila-based Poklong Anading that deals with the slippage between the act of listening and to be silent. This experimental exhibition conveys a muteness and invite us to rethink our ties with time, space and our movement and the elements that make us human. Read more ...
osage soho : 05.03.2011 - 09.05.2011
:: Intermediate Geography
Artist: Roberto Chabet
Curator: Nilo Ilarde
This installation was first displayed in 2005 as part of Chabet's series of annual simultaneous exhibitions at Finale Art Gallery and West Gallery at SM Megamall in Manila, and will be reconstructed for Osage Soho. "Intermediate Geography" is like a reminder of the dichotomies between the known and the unknowable; the expressible and the inexpressible; private and public; oneself and the other; art and non-art.
:: ArtWalk 2011
Date: 16th March 2011
Time: 5pm - 12am
Osage is pleased to be participating again in the charity event ArtWalk 2011. Please come and join us on the night for wine and good food.
Tickets are on sale at:
Picture This (13/F, 9 Queen's Rd Central) - near Ice House Street corner
Connoisseur Art Gallery (1 Hollywood Rd) - near Escalator
Schoeni Art Gallery (27 Hollywood Rd) - under the Escalator
Plum Blossoms Gallery (1 Hollywood Rd) - near Escalator
CAIS Gallery (87 Hollywood Rd) - near Aberdeen Street
Money raised from the sale of ArtWalk tickets will benefit the Society for Community Organisation (SoCO).
For more information, please visit www.hongkongartwalk.com
osage soho : 20.01.2011 - 27.02.2011
:: Mortal Coil
Private view and reception: 19.01.2011, 6pm-8pm
Osage Soho presents Mortal Coil, a solo exhibition by Wilson Shieh.
Preoccupied with pop culture and its different forms of manifestation, Hong Kong artist Wilson Shieh gives us a pause for reflecting on the paradox of contemporary culture. The term "mortal coil" is fitting, for "mortal" is directed at our physical bodies and its characterization, and "coil" conveys an emotional vessel that ...is compressed and requires disentanglement.
Influenced by Chinese gongbi painting technique and known for his meticulous rendering of figure and ground, many have overlooked Shieh's dark humor that functions as a critique of celebrity culture. For this exhibition, Shieh presents three series of drawings as a trajectory to investigate how cultural icons can develop into legends and subsequently historical figures.
2010
osage soho : 24.11.2010 - 14.01.2011
:: Pyramid
Bea Camacho, Maria Taniguchi
Osage Soho presents Pyramid, the first collaboration between Philippine artists Bea Camacho and Maria Taniguchi. The two artists, both originally from the Philippines, are now living and working in Boston and London respectively. The collaboration arises out of their common interest in the uses of a reductive process to investigate the dialectics of representation and of imagery converging to a single point. Secondly, pyramid can be used as a metaphor for how we come to terms with something monolithic. During the post-modern era, the monolith is not so much physical but something completely dematerialized, in particular the ever persuasive saturation and instantaneous transmission of images left right and center.
Inspired by the late French post-modern theorist Jean Baudrillard's theory on simulation central for the 1990's discussion on aesthetics, Pyramid sheds light on how the artists negotiate with the weight of the content [the base of the pyramid] and the weightlessness of dematerialized information [the zenith of the pyramid], and explores whether we can still resurrect something spiritual and eternal with image making. This exhibition forms the bases of a discourse that questions what are the remaining functions of making image at this moment - after the machine, after television, after the internet.
osage soho : 06.09.2010 - 11.23.2010
::Group Exhibition
Alfredo Aquilizan, Maria Isabel Cruz, Jordin Isip, Louie Cordero, Mac Valdezco, Mike Arcega, Roberto M.A. Robles
osage soho : 02.08.2010 - 31.08.2010
:: Li Xinping
Osage Soho is pleased to announce Li Xinping's solo exhibition, featuring 12 new works by the Beijing based artist.
Li's painterly style has always carried a unique stand within Chinese contemporary art today as it encompasses the perimeters of decorative art and at the same time possesses the potential to engage in various mythological and philosophical discourses concerning the ancient history and culture of China. In his latest body of work, Li Xinping shifts his focus towards the broader theme of science and nature by microscopically examining the miniscule details generated from dissected images and mirror reflection of warped body parts. In the Tentacle and Image series (2010), vibrant colors and irregular shapes are juxtaposed to create stimulating geometric visuals reminiscent of radiating cells. Other works such as Gust (2009) and Cry Out (2009) retain Li's figural approach to express natural phenomenon and human emotion, with the latter bearing a comical touch within.
Li Xinping (b. 1959) graduated from Henan University with Top Honors in Fine Arts. He has subsequently studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing as well as the St. Petersburg Art Academy in Russia. His works have been presented at notable exhibitions and art fairs in Asia such as SUSI: Key to Chinese Art Today-Exploration&Discovery (2006) at the National Museum in Manila, Nokia Singapore Art 1999, and Art Taipei (2008, 2009). Li has twice represented Beijing in the National Art Exhibition in China. Since 2005, he has had numerous solo exhibitions at the Osage Galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai.
osage soho : 06.07.2010 - 31.07.2010
:: Chen Jie, Gong Jian, Jane Lee, Lee Kit, Milenko Prvacki, Zhao Zhao
osage soho : 24.05.2010-01.07.2010
::Back to the Future?
Artists:
Huang Xiaopeng, Jiang Zhi, Li Ming, Ken Lum, Shirley Tse, Adrian Wong, Zheng Guogu
Imagine Osage Soho becoming a film set, a prop for rethinking the connections among the past, present and future. Is there still a possibility of turning back the clock in order to see ourselves more clearly in the present or do we just morph into the future without a clear direction? Back to the future? attempts to instil psychological nuances and to invoke an intensity to a site what is seemingly mundane. Artists are invited to turn what is vernacular on its back and to transform audiences' perception into a series of concrete actions.
:: ARTHK 10: 27.05.2010 - 30.05.2010
Booth D10
CHEN Jie | JIANG Zhi | Jane Lee | Donna ONG| Wilson SHIEH | SUN Yuan and PENG Yu | Charwei TSAI | Adrian WONG | YANG Jiechang
Vernissage
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 at 6-9pm
Stand Talk by artist Wilson Shieh
Thursday. 27 May 2010 at 4.30pm at Osage Gallery booth D10
ART HK Sunday Brunch
Sunday, May 30 at 10am - 12noon
Osage Soho
osage soho : 24.03.2010-22.05.2010
::Tsang Chui Mei, Wong Chun Hei and Yan Shan Chun
osage soho : 16.01.2010-28.02.2010extended till 21.03.2010
::Soft Death by Louie Cordero
Osage Gallery is pleased to present Soft Death by Louie Cordero at Osage Soho, following the exhibition's debut in Osage Singapore in November last year.
Louie Cordero's works are all filled with imageries like dismemberment, mutilation, brain, blood, intestines, membranes, or capillary. Yet more than just gore and the grotesque, Cordero's works, which draw inspirations from the streets, idiosyncratic semiology of various subcultures, popular culture, myths, and mass media, is reflective of a contemporary fascination with both the refined and the lewd. In Soft Death, which showcases a series of new drawings and paintings, ornate savagery appears alongside jovial or otherwise indifferent characters, often critically wounded or in a state of physical distortion--perhaps hinting at the contradiction underlying contemporary culture. Repulsive yet strangely captivating, Cordero's works are an ingenious manipulation of the sick pleasure one derives from the abject, and a direct confrontation with contemporary society.
2009
Osage Soho : 27.11.2009-10.01.2010
::Lee Kit: Someone Singing and Calling Your Name
Osage Soho is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Lee Kit's latest work, which marks a significant shift in the artist's practice.
Lee Kit has an attachment to things. Not particular objects that can be picked up, washed, sullied, felt, or lost, but rather the categories of existence that provide for these possibilities. His work is related to their objecthood, and often takes the form of an impersonal romance that initiates and shapes relationships between these errant things.
In this exhibition, Someone Singing and Calling Your Name, Lee transforms the two rooms of the gallery space into a certain take on a karaoke lounge intended to evoke a typical experience of social anxiety. Drawings of recognisable brand trademarks in coloured pencil on cardboard sheets hang on the cardboard walls.
Best known for his work with painted cloth, Lee's latest body of work feels like a departure for many observers. In the karaoke lounge of Someone Singing and Calling Your Name, the cardboard walls have replaced painted cloth as both boundary and receptacle for the activities of this body-like cloth, these walls record every touch, every trace of the event. Ultimately, the event is subsumed into the object itself, and, if experience can serve as any guide, these walls will continue to speak long after the bodies have come to rest.
Opening Reception: Thursday, 26 November 2009, 6:30pm
osage soho : 04.11.2009-21.11.2009
:: Lam Tungpang and Lau Hok Shing
Featuring paintings by Lam Tungpang and an installation by Lau Hok Shing.
osage soho: 28.08.2009 - 11.10.2009
:: Group Exhibition
An exhibition by 7 Filipino artists: Victor Balanon, Bea Camacho, Robert Guiterrez, Jordin Islip, Gina Osterloh, Kreskin Sugay, Jenifer K. Wofford
osage soho: 16.07.2009 - 23.08.2009
:: Kum Chikeung, Lui Chunkwong & Wilson Shieh
Osage Soho presents a group exhibition of recent works by three Hong Kong Artists.
The exhibition continutes until 23 August 2009
osage soho: 13.06.2009 - 12.07.2009
:: Arnel S. Agawin:
Remains of a Travelling Battered Wing
Curated by Evangelo Costadimas
Remains of a Travelling Battered Wing is a solo exhibition of mixed media works by the Hong Kong based, Filipino artist Arnel S. Agawin. The exhibition, which comprises drawings, paintings, video and installation, takes as its starting point, a journey of discovery by Agawin to the inner recesses of Hong Kong’s psyche. It is a journey he had to make in becoming a resident of Hong Kong and making this place his home. Being a ‘circumstantial migrant and willing adoptee’ of this city, it became obvious to him, soon after his arrival to Hong Kong that he had to adapt ‘to confront inevitable cultural impositions’. It is therefore not only a journey about his process of assimilating into the specific social and cultural context of Hong Kong, but also an attempt to transform this context.
osage soho: 30.04.2009 - 31.05.2009extended to 07.06.2009
:: Charwei Tsai :
Transience
Osage Soho is pleased to present Charwei Tsai’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, featuring works from 2005 to 2009. Tsai’s works engage with the transient nature of our natural and man-made environment and, in particular, seek to ‘inspire moments of contemplation on the ephemeral qualities of our environment and history.’
The opening reception of the exhibition was also the launch of Under Influence, a special edition of Lovely Daze, a curatorial journal published by Tsai.
osage soho: 06.03.2009 - 26.04.2009
:: Wilson Shieh : Chow Yun Fat's Fitting Room
Curated by Patrick D. Flores
Shieh's Chow Yun Fat's Fitting Room project reflects on how culture through appearance and adornment transforms in various media. The element of the famous Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat adds another dimension to this reflection because it introduces his own history of mutation from a local performer to a Hollywood star. This, too, had required him to shed old habits and take on new skin, learn a strange accent, and finally come to belong to a global world gathered by the cinema. In this exhibition, while Shieh departs from his exceptional use of the Chinese fine brush technique on silk and paper, though he retains its delicate manifestations. He demonstrates levels of mediation of clothing and consciousness through acrylic, crayon, graphite, and collage of prints. In this variety of media, the idea of transformation is further fleshed out in the process of dressing up and fashioned in the fitting rooms of society.
osage soho: 12.02.2009 - 01.03.2009
:: Crossway :
Miao Xiaochun, Liu Liyun
Osage Soho presents selected artworks from two Chinese contemporary artists: Liu Liyun and Miao Xiaochun. Liu’s work is informed by the ancient world of Chinese paintings which she makes her starting point in order to create her fantasy scene installations, modern 3D re-interpretations two dimensional classics. Miao on the other hand, begins with a 3D virtual interpretation of a Renaissance masterpiece and concludes with two dimensional Chinese ink paintings. Both artists are continuously deriving inspiration by juxtaposing the old and the new, East and West, classical and contemporary. Although their points of departure are seemingly at opposite ends, their creations converge and cross along the way to present us with alternative and innovative explorations.
2008
osage soho: 26.11.2008 - 08.02.2009
:: Group Exhibition:
Cai Jin, Chen Xiaodan, He Jinwei, Jiang Zhi, Sun Guojuan
Osage is pleased to present selected works by five contemporary Chinese artists. Cai Jin’s palpably visceral work references the miracle of creation that takes place inside women’s bodies. Chen Xiaodan’s Bloomy series tackles the issue of death, expressing horror and longing, hatred and obsession from a female perspective. He Jinwei ‘s mythical portrait stirs the viewer’s mind. Jiang Zhi’s works explore grand themes and personal narratives in surprising and unconventional ways. Sun Guojuan critiques notions of ideal female beauty with a series of self portraits.
osage soho: 30.10.2008 - 23.11.2008
:: Li Xinping: Criscross Fables
osage soho: 11.10.2008 - 27.10.2008
:: William Lim: DESTINATION
Curated by Evangelo Costadimas
Destination is a solo exhibition of photographs by artist and architect William Lim comprising photographs culled from his recent trip around the world. He likens this body of work to a string of incidents or landmarks that dot our lives, as for him “life is a journey searching for a destination”. William Lim’s photographs capture the spirit of a scene in all its emotive colours and shades while evoking ideas of both the modern and the romantic from his journey of life - his path that winds from destination to destination in his search for meditative, contemplative images.
osage soho: 30.08.2008 - 30.09.2008
:: Try to Remember
Chen Ping, He Jinwei, Jin Yangping, Liu Qiming, Shen Shaomin
Try to Remember is a group exhibition of selected works by Chen Ping, He Jinwei, Jin Yangping, Liu Qiming, and Shen Shaomin. The artists’ presentations of contemporary events and phenomena seek to highlight moments, perspectives, identities and experiences that fall through the cracks of historical accounts driven towards narrative consistency. Each artist takes on the role of simultaneously being an observer and participant in specific moments in time, crafting a picture of people, events and histories. These exist at the margins and also bring forth the artist’s personal viewpoints of the state of society in contemporary times. The works in Try to Remember do not just document, but attempt to intervene into the present and continuous act of remembering.
osage soho: 31.07.31.2008 - 27.08.2008
:: Wonderland
Paintings + Mixed Media Installations by
Joe Lui, Clementine Chan, and Seeman Ho
The exhibition features three Hong Kong female artists; each expresses the artist’s world of imagination and sensation with unique styles and techniques. From oil paintings, micro sculptures to mixed media installation, Wonderland invites audiences to enter the poetic and imaginary world of Joe Lui, Clementine Chan, and Seeman Ho.
osage soho: 28.06.31.2008 - 23.07.2008
:: Zoology
Almond Chu, Jiang Penyi, Kum Chikeung, Wang Chuan
osage soho: 26.06.31.2008 (special event)
:: Ludwig : Atopia Night - A downtown experience
osage soho: 06.31.2008 - 24.06.2008
:: Chronicles of Pain
Charlie Co, Bobit Segismundo, Justo Cascante, Arnel S. Agawin
Participation in the Philippines Art Festival 2008
Participating artists: Aung Myint, Emily Phyo, Ko Z, Min Thein Sung, MPP Yei Myint, Myat Kyawt, Nyein Chan Su (NCS), Po Po, Soe Naing, The Maw Naing, Tun Win Aung, Wah Nu, Zar Min Htike
In this first major exhibition of Myanma art, curated by Isabel Ching and Yin Ker are keen to adopt as muse a force closer to life in the way it is enacted on a daily basis in Myanmar (Burma) - one whose language is proper to humanity as well. Myanmar is often taken as synonymous with Buddhism, NGOs, drugs, poverty and realpolitik, as if her people lived on this medley alone. But Southeast Asia's largest peninsular country that connects the two civilizations of India and China, and with a population of 50 million, is more. Adopting "play" as its theme, this exhibition sets out to explore the ways thirteen Myanmar artists born between the 1940s and 1980s negotiate with life and art presently, ergo unveiling the intricacies of Myanmar art today: its many colours and paradoxies, from the jocular to carnivalesque to plain irony.
Opening Reception: Saturday, 08.05.2010, 5pm
PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
08.05 2010, 3:00pm
PANEL DISCUSSION - PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY ART IN MYANMAR
Speakers: Cheo Chai-Hiang(Artist), Isabel Ching (Curator), Po Po (Participating artist), Tun Win Aung (Participating artist), Meridel Rubenstein (Visiting Associate Professor, School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University)
Moderator: Isabel Ching
05.06.2010, 3:00PM
ARTIST TALK BY PO PO
Moderator: Lee Weng Choy (Director of Projects, Research & Publication, Osage Art Foundation)
All programmes are held at Osage Singapore and carried out in English. For enquiries, please email info@osagegallery.com or call us at (65) 6337 9909.
osage singapore : 03.03.2010-25.04.2010
::Inventory: New Art from Southeast Asia
Participating artists: Poklong Anading (Philippines), Cheo Chai-Hiang (Singapore), Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore), Lee Kit (Hong Kong), Vincent Leong (Malaysia), Pratchaya Phinthong (Thailand), Wit Pimkanchanapong (Thailand), and Tintin Wulia (Indonesia).
Inventory: New Art from Southeast Asia will present recent works by eight of the region's most significant artists for the first time in Singapore, taking stock of the state of art production in the region.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, 02.03.2010, 6:30pm
PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
13.03 2010, 3:00pm
BOOK LAUNCH - CHEO CHAI-HIANG: THE STORY OF MONEY
ARTIST TALK BY CHEO CHAI-HIANG
27.03 2010, 3:00pm
EXHIBITION TOUR BY LEE WENG CHOY Director, Projects, Research & Publications, Osage Art Foundation
10.04 2010, 3:00pm
ARTIST TALK BY HO TZU NYEN
All programmes are held at Osage Singapore and carried out in English. For enquiries, please email info@osagegallery.com or call us at (65) 6337 9909.
2009
osage singapore : 14.11.2009-07.02.2010
:: Jompet | Java's Machine: Phantasmagoria
Java's Machine: Phantasmagoria explores syncretism as a strategy to reconcile dispersed and disparate points of reference in Javanese cultural history. This is exemplified by Java, the War of Ghosts, the centrepiece installation, which also underscores the other works in the exhibition. Java, the War of Ghosts features 'invisible' soldiers made flesh by their uniforms--amalgams of the Dutch and Javanese military attire--and equipment. Suspended from the ceiling, each plays a different sound, synchronised into an electronic orchestra. A discordant yet strangely harmonious combination, the installation is a representation of Java's patchwork heritage. Jompet's soldiers do not serve a military function; they stand in formation, aloof, rather than tangled in battle. They are literally held down by the very things that constitute them, the sheer bulk of a civilisational parade. However, this is not intended as a criticism. Jompet's syncretism can be read as a discourse on post-colonialism and globalisation, a celebration of unruly beauty. As with Java's heritage, harmony can be negotiated in the multiplicity of patches that make up today's global community.
Opening Reception: Friday, 13 November 2009, 6:30pm
osage singapore : 14.11.2009-27.12.2009
:: Louie Cordero | Soft Death
Dismemberment, mutilation, brain, blood, intestines, membranes, capillary... these are imageries abundant in the works of Louie Cordero. Yet more than just gore and the grotesque, Cordero's works, which draw inspirations from the streets, idiosyncratic semiology of various subcultures, popular culture, myths, and mass media, is reflective of a contemporary fascination with both the refined and the lewd. In Soft Death, which showcases a series of new drawings and paintings, ornate savagery appears alongside jovial or otherwise indifferent characters, often critically wounded or in a state of physical distortion--perhaps hinting at the contradiction underlying contemporary culture. Repulsive yet strangely captivating, Cordero's works are an ingenious manipulation of the sick pleasure one derives from the abject, and a direct confrontation with contemporary society.
Opening Reception: Friday, 13 November 2009, 6:30pm
osage singapore: 26.09.2009 to 08.11.2009
:: Jane Lee
Osage Singapore is pleased to present the first major solo exhibition of Jane Lee's work since being awarded the Singapore Art Prize for her work at the Singapore Art Show in 2007. From Lee's investigations into processes of painting and materiality through to her recent large-scale installation presented at Singapore Biennale 2008, the exhibition offers audiences a rare opportunity to follow the development of her artistic practice from 2004 to the present day.
Lee's work examines painting by pushing the limits of the materials and techniques used in painting. Through her use of unconventional materials and innovative techniques, her paintings highlight their processes to draw attention to the way the paintings have been made or constructed, and in so doing re-examine painting's significance and relevance for contemporary art practice.
Opening Reception: 25.09.2009, 6:30pm
Public Programmes
'Abstraction Today'
Lecture by Prof. Tony Godfrey
17 October 2009 (Saturday), 3:00pm
Panel Discussion: 'Painting in Asia Today'
Participants: Prof. Tony Godfrey, Eugene Tan, and Tan Guo-Liang
07 November 2009 (Saturday), 3:00pm
osage singapore: 18.07.2009 to 19.09.2009
:: Second Skin
Chow Chunfai and Wilson Shieh
Curated by Patrick D. Flores
Osage Singapore is pleased to present Second Skin, an exhibition of works by Chow Chunfai and Wilson Shieh, curated by Patrick D. Flores. Chow and Shieh are both fascinated with the notion of re-dress, or the ways in which habits are woven as fabric of social life, worn as second skin, shed, mixed and matched, kept, and reinvented as camp or retro in gongbi (Chinese fine brush) or Shanghai Tang.
Treading the fine line between history and contemporaneity, the artists collect images from cinema and painting, creating a rupture from the past, cutting out bits and pieces from the vast textile of movies and pictures so as to ‘refashion’ them. Chow restages the theatre of modern art, while also lacing a yarn based on a Chinese tale around Caravaggio's paintings; Shieh reconfigures the fitting roomas a means of gaining access to the very methods of materilalisation through the very matter of adornment. Their works express a vital aspect of subjectivity or self making, techniques of materialisation, and the distance from 'identity' through necessary fictions and acts of dissembling.
Second Skin continues until 19 September 2009
osage singapore: 23.05.2009 to 12.07.2009
:: Found & Lost
Sookoon Ang, Cheong Kah Kit, Khiew Huey Chian, Charles Lim, Matthew Ngui, Shubigi Rao, Erika Tan, and Ian Woo
Curated by Guo-Liang Tan
Found & Lost features the works of eight Singapore artists concerned with questions of representation in relation to the act of drawing. The exhibition serves as an extension of the ideas explored in Aversions, a drawing publication project in which the artists explore and respond to the boundaries of drawing within their own artistic practices, delving into issues such as peripheral vision, perpetual delay, the impossibility of the image, and the fragmentation of language and memory in relation to the act of drawing.
As a parallel exhibition, Found & Lost continues along and beyond the initial line of enquiry into the nature of visual representation. Many of the works move between the act of observation (looking at) and that of introspection (looking for), proposing a correlation between the visible and the invisible in the way meaning is constantly being interrupted and negotiated by shifts in perception.
osage singapore: 09.04.2009 to 16.05.2009
:: Jiang Zhi : On The White
Osage Singapore is pleased to present On The White the first solo exhibition in Singapore by Chinese artist Jiang Zhi. His ruminations on the metaphysical aspects of art and life find extraordinary expression in photography, video and installation.
On The White presents a selection of works from 2006–2008, where the quality of the colour white has been investigated for this body of work in terms of form, content or presentation, giving structure and motif to the exhibition. In light, cloth and nature, the demolishing character, encompassing effect and the purification and spiritual associations of the colour white reveal operations of power, fate and fantasy.
Curated by Isabel Ching
osage singapore:20.02.2009 to 29.03.2009
:: Nipan Oranniwesna
Osage Singapore is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Singapore of Thai artist, Nipan Oranniwesna. Oranniwesna’s work explores the fragile state of contemporary societies in the age of Globalization. This can be seen in the installation, City of Ghosts, which in this exhibition, will be the biggest installation of its kind. Using meticulously cut-out maps of ten different metropolitan cities (including Singapore), Oranniwesna uses talcum powder to create a sprawling cityscape that is a combination of all the different cities, reflecting the interconnectedness of our societies in our age of globalization. Its compelling visuality is contrasted at same time by consciousness of its fragility, highlighting the delicate, fragile and precarious nature of our societies. The use of talcum powder, a material typically used for babies, and hence its association with purity, is juxtaposed with the diminishment of utopian ideals in our current age, dominated by global capitalism.
2008
osage singapore: 24.10.2008 - 07.12.2008
:: Futuramanila
FUTURAMANILA is a group exhibition comprised of 23 contemporary Filipino artists brought together by an association created through artist-run spaces and exchange residency programs and who practice both in the Philippines and abroad. These artists who exhibit their works locally and internationally all possess a mutual connection with the collective Filipino identity. Along with this, their cross-cultural relations reinforce the core of the exhibit, providing a discussion drawn from various creative viewpoints.
osage singapore: 10.09.2008 - 15.10.2008
:: Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm
Beijing-based multidisciplinary artist Miao Xiaochun showcases new works in a solo exhibition, titled Miao Xiaochun: Microcosm.
Miao’s nine-panel new work, entitled Microcosm, is the centerpiece of this exhibition. Referencing early Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch’s well-known work, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Miao reworks and complicates Bosch’s presentation of Heaven, Earth and Hell. Using three-dimensional computer software, Miao has added six side panels to Bosch’s triptych, thereby effectively refashioning and expanding Bosch’s two-dimensional painting. In particular, Miao’s own imagination informs the first and last panels of this work, adding to the inspirations derived from Bosch’s work. Miao also retains the original perspectives of Heaven, Earth and Hell in the three central panels. One is thus able to take in a sweeping view of Heaven, Earth and Hell from either side of Miao’s nine-panel work.
Miao also wishes to “dig into the roots of mysteries belonging to another time” through this new work. Drawing on modern language of present time, Miao reinterprets the numerous minute details in Bosch’s triptych, of which many may appear impenetrable to modern understanding. With this act of reinterpretation, new sets of mysteries are created that hint at Miao’s views about the world, and his understanding of life and death.
osage singapore: 10.09.2008 - 08.10.2008
:: Tong Yan Runan : About Face
osage singapore: 08.08..2008 - 05.09.2008
:: Inside Looking Out
Artists include:
Ma Chihang (Film, Mixed-media)
Kwan Sheungchi (Installation)
Lee Kit (Painting, Installation)
Chow Chunfai (Painting)
Pak Sheungchuen (Mixed-Media)
Lam Tungpang (Painting, Mixed-media)
Doris Wong (Mixed_media)
The exhibition Inside Looking Out consists of work by six artists from studio Mr 221 and studio 615 at Fotan. It presents an opportunity to explore whether there is any solid theoretical and methodological basis for an examination of the construct that may come to be called the “Fotan School”. As the art world becomes more and more fragmented, the identification of artists as a member of a particular group or “school” is for many the only way of lending structure to a highly fluid range of contemporary art movements.
osage singapore:13.06.2008 - 02.08.2008
:: Crosscurrents : New Media Art from Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore
Qiu Zhijie, Jin Jiangbo (Beijing)
Kingsley Ng (Hong Kong)
Zulkifle Mahmod (Singapore)
Alvin Zafra, Chen Yujun, Jiang Zhi, Lam Tungpang, Liu Ye, Maria Taniguchi, Tong Yanrunan, Wilson Shieh and Yuan Yuan
osage shanghai : 10.09.2010 - 31.10.2010
::An Unexpected Turn of Events
CHEN Shaoxiong - Tsuyoshi OZAWA
Osage Shanghai presents An Unexpected Turn of Events, the first exhibition at our new location in the heart of the French Concession district, showing the works of artists Chen Shaoxiong and Tsuyoshi Ozawa. Though the two artists originate from different countries and cultural backgrounds, it is apparent that their oeuvres bear strong parallels whilst retaining the artists' individual styles. Based on a long term dialogue over the past few years, Chen and Ozawa have collaborated and produced many significant projects that are often unpredictable in nature.
This exhibition traces the development of the two mid-career artists and by showing selected artworks from the past two decades, Osage Shanghai hopes to expose the convergences and subtleties behind their individual and collaborative pieces. ?From their first collaboration, Guangzhou Tokyo at the Second Guangzhou Triennial in 2005, to a new commission which involves the firing of bricks that are embedded with hidden objects, what binds these artists together is how they use their own transience as a subject matter for social investigation. Whilst Ozawa's Nasubi Galleries create temporary galleries in Tokyo to challenge the traditional gallery system, Chen's streetscape photography juxtaposes different cityscapes to expose the need for physical conformity of different metropolises. Interested in exploring different modes of cultural production, Chen and Ozawa express a contingent quality that speaks of human fate and makes their art vital and timely.
Private view and reception: 09.09.2010, 5:00pm to 9:00pm
osage shanghai : 23.05.2010-04.07.2010
::Homestay
Curator: David Chan
Artists:
Chen Yujun (Hangzhou); Cheng Ran (Hangzhou); Leung Meeping (Hong Kong); Liang Yue (Shanghai); Ni Haifeng(Amsterdam/Beijing); Donna Ong (Singapore); Maria Taniguchi (Manila/ London); Wang Jianwei (Beijing); Yuan Yuan (Hangzhou);
The exhibition in May at Osage Shanghai simulates a temporary dwelling for visitors to better learn a local lifestyle.
With the 2010 world expo opening during the month of May, Shanghai has gone through a dramatic process of gentrification. Such a face lift is to endorse the visions of the future by realising many high profile modernisation projects. Somewhat untouched by this master narrative is Duolun road where Osage Shanghai is located.
The social activities in this bazaar area project a humanistic spirit that not only speaks of a coexistence of the past and present, but it bears witness to a belief that has lived and is still living simultaneously. Situated at the former residence of renowned political writer Wang Zaoshi, Osage Shanghai invites nine artists to articulate the notion of home and to tease out the social relevance of a cultural institution relative to a vibrant neighbourhood. Home-stay attempts to unfold the many subtle readings of entertainment, displacement, memory, writing, narration, domesticity, nostalgia, migration and design, issues that have close ties with the exhibition site and its immediate surroundings.
Opening Reception: Saturday, 22.05.2010, 6pm
2009
osage shanghai : 29.11.2009-31.01.2010
:: Wilson Shieh: Fitting Room
Fitting Room, Wilson Shieh's latest body of work, which takes the form of a solo exhibition at Osage Soho in March 2009, a two-person show at Osage Singapore in July 2009, travels to Shanghai this November.
Shieh is one of Hong Kong's most established and significant contemporary artists. His works engage with issues pertinent to our contemporary societies. In his Fitting Room series, Shieh extends these concerns through icons of Hong Kong popular culture to explore identity issues that have risen from the transition of which societies such as Hong Kong are currently undergoing.
Shieh considers clothing as a 'space of appearance' in which subjectivity gains presence. Thus if clothing extends to the screen by way of costume or to edifice through facade, it is but part of the logic of change. The movies, literatures, and songs are possibility for selves and others to alight and to be experienced. And the artist's disposition towards a technique that is emblematic of tradition reinforces this thought: adornment becomes an index of becoming, the painstaking making of a fragile and finite fantasy of identity. His works speak of a vital aspect of subjectivity or self making, a technique of materialisation, and the distance from 'identity' through necessary fictions and acts of dissembling.
Opening Reception: Saturday, 28 November 2009, 6:00pm
osage shanghai: 08.09.2009 to 08.11.2009
:: Jiang Zhi: Attitude
Curated by Bao Dong
Featuring new works by Jiang Zhi, Jiang Zhi: Attitude will debut at Osage Shanghai on 7 September 2009, and will travel to Hong Kong in December 2009 and Beijing in April 2010.
Taking the concept of 'attitude' as a point of departure, Jiang Zhi explores how 'attitude' is not simply a conscious behaviour, nor merely an expression of a point of view, but a form of social rhetoric where every form of 'attitude' is a node in the complex web of meaning-making. This exhibition is an investigation into, and a rewriting of, the phenomenon behind rhetorical expressions. Jiang extracts fragments of the social rhetorical as found in real life situations and reconstructs them, and in the process, breaks the chain of meanings. Stripped of its language-signifier, 'attitude' reveals its own significance, bringing forth the criticality that lies at the heart of the deconstruction.
Following the presentation at Shanghai, the exhibition will travel to Hong Kong and Beijing, where each site will witness the expansion of the exhibition that stems from the continual discussions. It is hoped that the exhibition will present a continual investigation, rather than an attempt at a conclusion.
Opening Reception: Monday, 7 September 2009, 6:00pm
osage shanghai: 26.07.2009 to 30.08.2009
:: I'm Too Sad to Tell You
Solo Exhibition by Alexander Brandt (Fei Pingguo)
Curated by Ella Liao
Osage Shanghai is pleased to present, I'm Too Sad to Tell You, a solo exhibition featuring multimedia works by Shanghai-based German artist Alexander Brandt (Fei Pingguo).
The title of the exhibition takes inspiration from the famous piece I'm Too Sad to Tell You, a short film by Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader in which, Ader presents himself in front of the camera and breaks down and cries for the entire 3 minutes 21 seconds of the film. Fei is attracted to such emotions that are conveyed by facial expressions and invites audiences into this intensely charged emotional space. It is being in this space that allows us to re-examine our inner world, and get to know better the stranger that dwells within us.
I'm Too Sad to Tell You You presents five of Fei's installations, shown for the first time in Shanghai, which explore human behaviour through multimedia interactions. The works possess multiple layers of interactivity: technological, physical as well as sociological.
Opening Reception: Saturday 25 July 2009, 6:00pm
I'm Too Sad to Tell You continues until 30 August 2009
osage shanghai: 31.05.2009 to 19.07.2009
:: Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition
Artists: Bird Head, Gao Mingyan, Hu Yun, Jin Feng, Li Mu, Lu Jiawei, Lu Pingyuan, Tang Dixin, Yu Tianzhu, Zhang Lehua, and Zhao Zhao
Curated by Biljana Ciric
Osage Shanghai is pleased to present Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition, an exhibition that attempts to explore new possibilities within and for the art economy. This exhibition attempts to introduce new possibilities and proposals for the changing roles of artists in the art economy as their activities blend into those of collectors, conservators, and entrepreneurs. Through their individual strategies, artists take into consideration how the works will circulate within the art market; how a project that strategically includes other artists and works might extend beyond the existing scope of art market activity: engaging with issues such as notions of collectability and new ways of collecting; material preservation and conservation, and other possibilities for such; new channels within the art market that go beyond existing gallery services; and new proposals for gallery and institutional systems.
osage shanghai: 07.03.2009 to 24.05.2009
:: Some Rooms (Shanghai)
Li Fuchun (China), Lee Kit (Hong Kong), Qin Siyuan (China), Danny Wu (China)
Curated by Fu Xiaodong (China)
Osage Gallery is pleased to present the second component of Some Rooms, an exhibition concurrently being presented in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Some Rooms is a collaborative project between artists and curators which was started in 2008.
osage shanghai: 10.01.2009 to 01.03.2009
:: Mixed Motivity 1 : Emerging Artists Exhibition
Cao Hao, Liu Lijie, Meng Yangyang, Pan Yingguo, Wang Xi and Xu Qin
The creative practices of emerging artists today typically utilise multiple channels and interventions by new conceptual systems. Through expression of their emotions and engagement with the tension inherent in these conceptual systems, they utilise various media, breaking boundaries and creating new visual experiences. Their works reveal multiplicity and differentiation, while responding to the drastic changes of this era, producing a new artistic scene that is parallel to this era. This exhibition attempts to convey the energy present in the young artists’ witty and creative practice through the notion of “mix motivity”. Be it the mixed effect of multiple media or the new art forms that have emerged simultaneously, which have resulted in the trajectories for these new emerging artists.
Mixed Motivity 1 forms part of Osage Shanghai’s commitment to the development of emerging artists and artistic practices. This exhibition showcases the ways in which the new perspectives, ideas and styles of this generation reinvent and challenge our understanding and perception of contemporary art.
Curated by Emily Cheng
2008
osage shanghai: 01.11.2008 to 04.01.2009
:: The Plague of Fantasies
Photography by Gao Lei and Dai Mouyu, paintings by Zhao Yang and Zheng Qiang, and video art by Jin Shan.
It would seem that revently, there is no shortage of exhibition openings at galleries and art spaces. We rush from one venue to the next receiving visual bombardments, all the while trying to decode ideas and fantasies behind countless concepts. This information overload has short-circuited our brains, leaving us aesthetically exhausted and sensually numb. We have almost forgotten the freedom and pleasure that art brought us a long time ago. Our society has stepped into an age of consumerism, our needs and satisfaction can no longer be defined by the terms of traditional values. Everything in life is consumable, and art is no exception. Under such circumstances, how should one carry out artistic creation as an individual? This is the underlying theme and the reason why these five artists have been invited to participate in this exhibition.
Curated by Ella Liao
osage shanghai: 07.09.2008 to 27.10.2008
:: True Colours
In recent years, it is a trend among Chinese artists to be consciously reflective. Successive experimental breakthroughs are frequently witnessed in painting circles. In their personal languages, people are pursuing a freer expression of inner soul and self transcendence. More and more artists go back to the essence of painting, trying to break new paths in this field. Boundaries are expected to extend. Every attempt to invent a new device, method or language opens up a new era. Now ten extraordinary artists who stand out for their sharp sense and independent attitude were invited to participate in our exhibition. We intend to focus on current developments and trends in Chinese contemporary painting so as to apprise what, as the title of True Colors suggests, is really happening, but also and in particular, referring to the resumed modes of color application and brush work.
osage shanghai:07.09.2008 to 27.10.2008
:: Wilson Shieh: Lady Killers
You may not expect someone who has mastered the traditional fine brush painting style of Gongbi to apply it to contemporary art but that is exactly what Hong Kong artist Wilson Shieh does, and his work combines ancient technique with modern content to devastating effect.
In his first solo exhibition with Osage Contemporary Art and Ideas, Wilson Shieh will present his “Lady Killers” series of paintings and drawings at Osage Shanghai. Osage also showcased four of the paintings at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, from 10 – 13 September 2008.
osage shanghai: 16.08.2008 - 04.09.2008
:: Liang Quan, Yan Shan Chun’s Exhibition
August 16th to September 4th 2008, Osage Shanghai is holding an exhibition for Liang Quan and Yan Shanchun when more than 20 pieces of works from the two masters of modern abstractionism will be put on the show.
Liang Quan was born in Shanghai 1948. In his works, the clutter of subtle details balances between themselves to achieve an overall void. The irregular stokes assert their presence but never rush to outdo one another, giving way to a quiet and peaceful mind as such in Buddhism.
Born in Hangzhou 1957, Yan Shanchun graduated in 1982 from China Academy of Art, known as Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts then. The application of materials and techniques from ink, propylene and fresco paintings in his recent works is interpreted as being in memory of the visual experience from the artist’s childhood and of his hometown by the West Lake. In terms of presentation, his style is improvisational and calligraphic, but also reserved. He pursues elegance and delicacy while remaining innocent and simple. In his own words, it is “rusty”, “ra”ther “s”imple but pre”tty”.
osage shanghai: 18.07.2008 - 12.08.2008
:: Xiu Xiaoguo : Performance in Waiting
osage shanghai: 21.06.2008 - 15.07.2008
:: Li Xinping : Trans + Fusion
2007
osage shanghai: 06.09.2007
:: The Diamond Age
Bai Yiluo, Qin Qi, Jin Jiangbo, Miao Xiaochun, Peng Yu, Sun Yua, Shen Shaomin, Xu Xiaoguo
The Diamond Age is the title of the best-selling novel by author Neal Stephenson set in an ultra- modern Shanghai of the future. The title extends the classifications of eras of human history - from the Stone Age at the beginning of time, through the Bronze and Iron Ages of technological innovation and onwards to a post-technological future. It is an apt term to describe the cut, clarity and brilliance of much contermporary Chinese art.
Chow Chunfai, Pak Sheungchuen, Lam Tungpang, Ma Chihang, Kwan Sheungchi, Lee Kit
Others
Art Statements, Art Basel 42 : 15.06.2011 - 19.06.2011
:: How to set up an apartment for Johnny
Artists: Lee Kit
Curator: David Chan
For Art Statements, Lee Kit creates a typical Hong Kong demonstration flat with a living room, a toilet, a bedroom, and a small kitchen. Various hand-painted cloths and cardboard paintings infiltrate this domestic prop for an imaginary character. Lee devises a situation that delves into our consciousness through seeing, feeling, acting, and simply being. Like a sudden epiphany, we are left to deal with our own emotions and memories privately.
ART HK 11 : 26.05.2011 - 29.05.2011
Our participation at Art HK11 (26–29 May) is to showcase our artists Charwei Tsai, Alvin Zafra, Lee Kit and Wilson Shieh, Maria Taniguchi, and Poklong Anading and to support the most important art fair in the Asian region. Further, Osage Gallery is proud to announce that Kingsley Ng (Osage represented artist), Syren Johnstone and Daniel Patzold will be presenting a metal, video and sound installation - LUNGHUA - as part of the series of installation projects at Art HK again this year. Read more ...
osage art foundation : 18.02.2011 - 26.03.2011
:: Complete & Unabridged, Part I
Opening reception: 17.02.2011, 6:30pm
Venue :
Room F202, Block F, Level 2
Lasalle College of the Arts
1 McNally Street, Singapore 187940
"Complete & Unabridged, Part I" is a major exhibition of Roberto Chabet and 29 contemporary artists from the Philippines, all of whom studied with or were mentored by Chabet at the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts, or at key artist-run spaces in Manila. Curated by Ringo Bunoan, Isabel Ching and Gary-Ross Pastrana, the wide range of works featured in the exhibition include painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Reflecting the diversity of interests and practices in Philippine art today, they are connected by a continuing discussion on alternative forms and ways of thinking about art - issues that Chabet has consistently raised through his own art, his curated exhibitions and teachings.
"Complete & Unabridged, Part I" is the second in a series of four exhibitions presented by the Osage Art Foundation and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. "To Be Continued", a survey of works by Roberto Chabet opened on 13 January 2011 in Singapore. "Intermediate Geography", another solo by Chabet, and Part II of "Complete & Unabridged" will open at Osage in Hong Kong in March 2011. All four exhibitions are part of Chabet 50 Years, organised by King Kong Art Projects Unlimited throughout 2011 - 2012 at various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila in celebration of fifty years of Chabet's pioneering conceptual work and his role in shaping Philippine contemporary art. The Asian Cultural Council is pleased to be a partner organisation for the project, as Mr. Chabet is one of the first artists from the Philippines to receive a fellowship in 1967, which supported him to travel to the United States.
osage at Art Taipei: 20.08.2010 - 24.08.2010
Booth A04
Participating artists:
Silas Fong
Lee Kit
Tozer Pak
Wilson Shieh
Zhao Zhao
Opening Night:
Thursday, 19 August 2010 at 6:30pm - 9pm
Pom, Kenichi Hagihara, Meiro Koizumi, Ayako Okubo, Yukihiro Taguchi, Shiro Takatani, Wah
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