Glimpses from Art HK 2012.2

You always get surprises at an art exhibition. If you don't, then it will most probably be one in which you will have lost little even if you weren't here.
 



This is a work by Jitish Kallat, called Conditions Apply 2, 2010. It's a light show with "nan-like" figures cut to imitate the phases of the moon. Simple but beautiful.

These two houses by Desmond Lazaro look really peaceful. It's made with shellac on special handmade paper: one silver and one gold.

And a third one by the same artist. There is a serenity and a certain aliveness to the house.

This is a photograph of a country rood near Jamestown by photographer Gerard Bryne in 2007. How did he manage to make it so colorful without any artificial lighting? Or were there many "preparations" before the photo was taken?

This is an old portrait made with handmade paper pulp called "Georgia" in 1984 by Chuck Close. How much work went into that?

This a wood carving imitating the skull of some bird?

And this one imitating the head of an animal"?

Cuckling children playing "hide and seek" between this model of a rhino and  that of a prehistoric dinosaur: an actual play between children, rhino and dinosaur and their creator ? ! It's called "I didn't Notice what I was doing" 2012 by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. Two animals in acrylicto signify their differences or they didn't notice until it was time to do the models?

In Islamic countries, writing Qu'ran in decorative script has become an art. In this exhibit, the artist forms a "painting" by pasting together thousands of printed words on small pieces of paper. The work is named appropriately "Language 7 2011-2012". The artist is Rashid Rana.

A close up of what some of the words may actually look like: confrontation of the old with the new, the past with the present, everything reduced to the uniformity of two dimensional space, depth transformed into mere surfaces and signs.

This exhibit by Daniel Buren s called "5 colors of electric light. 2011. Really simple: in accordance with the vibrational frequencies of different colors from the highest to the lowest.

This bronze by Tony Cragg is called "Relatives".

This "entitled" porcelain piece is done by Richard Deacon in 2009..

This is a most unusual work by Anish Kapoor in 2009. It's made with stainless steel and lacquer.

This is the "Cubo-Autokatist Composition #8, 2006. In fact, it is oil on paper by Rodney Graham

Plenty of gay colors on different plastic discs.

I didn't take down the name of this artist.  Alfredo Lam ?

This piece by Yoko Ono is entitled "Door + Dropping" 2011. 

This painting by Rashid Rana is called "Anatomy Lesson IV, 2011 -2012" The man is blindfolded. All kinds of hands with probing instruments around him!

This arm through the wall is done by Santiago Sierra. Its legend says that it's a worker's arm passing through the ceiling of an art space from a dwelling in Mexico City in 2004. Everywhere there are barriers! Man must break through them to remain and to retain his humanity. Perhaps man has to express himself always in struggles?

This is the "Pink Rocinate", ( horse ridden by the famous Spanish "Knight of the Sad Counternance" as he roamed the world in search of adventure" Don Quixote")  by Michael Joo. 2009-2012. It looks more a donkey than a horse. It's made of bronze but is completely painted over with enamel paint and its body is covered by carbuncle-like "studs" and stands on a half painted wooden rack.It appears to be dressed or draped with top and bottom and has no eyes!



A horse pretending to be a zebra or tiger?

This painting by Li Songsong is called" I Saw national Socialism" 2012. Socialism on breathing apparatus? The surface of the painting broken into sections.

This painting is called "Butterfly Rotates Frog Rotates Butterfly 2012. Looks a bit like a child's work!