Few artists get a permanent exhibit in a location quite like the one offered to South Korean artist Ahn Pilyun, whose works are set in a low rooftop garden bathed in sunlight within view of the famous Hong Kong harbour. It helped that she was one of the most famous contemporary Korean artists of the time and that Henderson Land was funding the project. That said, she masterfully delivered an inspired work that combined the best of the location and the artist’s style. The Flux consists of four irregular geometric sculptures, each representing a season, covered in uniformly sized but variously coloured glass tiles. During the day, each sculpture captures and reflects the changing angles of sunlight differently. Viewed from inside the IFC Mall, they create a kaleidoscope of sunlight. When the sculptures are viewed at night, internal lighting radiates colours out. A close examination of the individual tiles reveals each contains a relief image of a pair of scissors. This is a recurring motif in Pilyun’s work. For her, every act of creativity involves separation and a new beginning, like cutting a newborn baby’s umbilical cord. The daily rising and setting of sunlight on Pilyun’s four seasons are the reason it is called The Flux.
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A Sense of Place: From Turner to Hockney
The exhibition spans the lifetimes of British landscape painters from the seventeenth century, from the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner to modern times as represented by contemporary painter David Hockney. This show provides a pictorial documentation of the evolution in tastes, styles and subject matter in landscape paintings throughout the past several centuries. The development and evolution of British landscape paintings over the past centuries shows that the format can communicate a myriad of messages and meanings. The challenge for artists continues, regardless of their style or intellectual interests.
Moving? Staying? by Liu Guosong
The Hong Kong Experience, Hong Kong Experiment exhibition at the HKMoA as featured in Culture 187 has this wonder 11 panel ink, acrylic and collage on paper installtion.
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