osage kwun tong: extended to 23.11.2008

:: Jiang Zhi: On The White

Curated by Isabel Ching

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.

Jiang Zhi: On The White continues until 23 November 2008

osage kwun tong: extended to 23.11.2008

:: Site:Seeing

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.

Site:Seeing continues until 23 November 2008

We would like to invite students and teachers of your institution to engage in guided visits of the above exhibitions during the exhibition period of 10 October – 16 November 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 soho: 30.10.2008 - 23.11.2008

:: Li Xinping : Crisscross Fables

Li Xinping draws inspiration from the glories of the Chinese classics but presents them from the perspective of both Chinese and Western art history and philosophy. Li synthesizes complex compositions based on mathematical formulae and Euclidean geometry, in the form of crisscrossing lines that map the longitudes and latitudes of the fantasy world which he has created. His works present a legend narrative from the Middle Ages of another world.  At once decorative and beautiful, his works are capable of sustaining critical examination about the past, present and possible futures of Chinese culture. Li’s work describes the process of acculturation as a form of influential transition that is constantly in flux. But at the same time his work describes the fusion of these influences and the transcendence of their impact. This is a conceptual notion, a mode of thinking, a method of artistic creation and an experiential construct that is capable of connecting cultures, adapting itself to their changing circumstances, and accumulating experiences.

Li Xinping: Crisscross Fables continues until 23 November 2008

osage singapore: extended to 11.01.2009

:: 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.

Futuramanila continues until 11 January 2009

osage shanghai: 1.11.2008 to 4.01.2009

:: The Plague of Fantasies

Photography by Gao Lei and Dai Mouyu, paintings by Zhao Yang and Zheng Qiang, and video art by Jin Shan.

Curated by Ella Liao

It would seem that recently, 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.

Opening reception: 1.11.2008 at 4:00pm