Art Central HK 2015.1

For a number of years, there's been a plastic art event which every art lover in Hong Kong and in the Asia Pacific area would look forward to, "Art HK", which has been taken over 2 years ago by Art Basel. Starting this year, there's another big art event called "Art Central", held the Central harbor front, with participation from 75 international galleries from more than 20 countries. It's housed in a huge temporary pavillion covering some 10,000 square meters. Out of curiosity, I paid a short visit to the exhibition this afternoon. There's some interesting finds.

This looks like a block of wood.

But it isn't

it's made of paper, a work completed 2014

A close up of the block

This looks like a bust

But the top of the bust can be lifted.

and bent!  It's the work of Li Hongbo (李洪波) done in 2013.

  This violin looks suspended inside a wire-mesh bubble 

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Another piece of metalwork by the same artist last year

This is Card Woman, an oil on canvas by Martin Wehmer 2014

This is the "Withered Landscape Screen" in stainless steel wire and charcoal by Shi Jindian (師進滇)

This is faded memory #2 : Faded Red by Eugene Lemay 2014

One of the 450 of such smaller photos of what happened during the Cultural Revolution in the PRC in the mid -1960's

Another two of such photos by  Mo Yi (莫毅) in the work called "450 Cultural Revolutions".

A bronze. What could those two heavy balls in his hands that weigh him down be?

This work called Corona by Antonio Santin looks as if it has been propped up

and this one too. But they are not. it's just an optical illusion

Paddyfield 2011 by Nancy Chu Woo (朱楚珠) in ink and gouache on paper

Too Cool to Matter" 2012: varnish on canvas by Dale Frank
 

Cut up car 

its wheel

Its bottom

 

 Window 2015 by Leng Guangming (冷廣敏)

Three Plates 2015 by the same artist

Frame and Flower 2014 by the same artist, all in acrylic & mixed media

No eyes for "Scars" 2014 in camphor wood by Li Zhan (李展)

Another view of the same sculpture

"My Tea Diary 201301" a collage  of tea, color and ink on paper by Liang Quan (梁銓)

 "Tea and a bit of Coffee" by the same artist

Mountain after Rain III 2014

Mountain after IV 2014 by the same artist

"Meaningless Choice" No. 60 1993 by Song Ling (宋陵) ink on paper

A Sleeping Dragon (卧龍 ) by Tu Hongtao (屠宏濤) 2014/5




"I'm painting whilst Cezanne is having a rest"(塞尚休息, 我畫畫) 2015 by the same artist.