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
Supported by
Sponsors:
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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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Sponsors:
Media Partners:
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.
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)
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.
Pom, Kenichi Hagihara, Meiro Koizumi, Ayako Okubo, Yukihiro Taguchi, Shiro Takatani, Wah
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