WHAT WE KNOW Originally named Mak Ying Tung, the artist added the ‘2’ to her name in 2018 after visiting a fengshui master in the hopes of gaining fame and fortune by perfecting the number of strokes in her Chinese name. She further shortened her name to Mak2 earlier this year (2021). Her third solo…
WHAT WE KNOW Shen is the first Chinese artist in the gallery roster. Born in 1955, the New-York based artist’s solo show features twelve paintings created between 2009 and 2021. Painting with the canvas on the floor, the artist adopts a physical and introspective gesture of layering brushstrokes onto the canvas. Incorporating the flow of…
WHAT WE KNOW Born in 1955, the internationally renowned painter and filmmaker is from Bologna, Italy. Her current exhibition references Raphael’s ‘The School of Athens’ (1509-1511) to celebrate the intellects that laid the groundwork for Western philosophy. The artist has envisioned herself as a student at the School that epitomises the spirit of Renaissance, having…
WHAT WE KNOW The exhibition focusses on three important artists of the Lyrical Abstraction movement, presenting ten paintings that are united in their artistic vision, yet are distinct and unique in their expressions. Gérard Schneider (Switzerland, 1896-1986) came from an antiques and art restorer family, studying art at school, and was taught by Fernand Cormon,…
WHAT In 2003, British artist Antony Gormley invited around 300 people of all ages from Xiangshan village (now Huadong Town in Guangzhou city) to make approximately 200,000 clay figurines over five days. There were three simple instructions: each figurine had to be hand-sized, capable of standing up, and have two eyes. Otherwise, each maker was…
WHAT The M+ Sigg collection surveys the cultural dynamism of contemporary China from the early 1970s to the present. China’s open-door policy of 1978 began an era of profound social and economic change. Cities across the country grew into global commercial centres affecting the everyday lives of millions of people. Amidst China’s rise on the world…
WHAT For several decades, Nina Katchadourian has been considering the contradictory implications of the word ‘natural’ and explored the relationships between human and non-human animals, sometimes intervening in ways she terms ‘uninvited collaborations with nature’. Through her many projects, her explorations of this kind are often the result of spontaneous play and experimentation. This is her…
WHAT Ten new paintings and two sets of related drawings by Jonas Wood are presented for the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The concept for the exhibition grew from the artist’s show at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2019, when he reencountered Polka Dot Orchid (2015), a painting he had made of a single…
WHAT On view in Asia for the first time, five sculptures from Hirst’s ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ series are presented alongside another new series of paintings titled ‘The Revelations’ (2021). The works from the former is based on the fictional discovery of an ancient shipwreck, weaving fantasy, mythology, and history. Cast in…
WHAT The show presents a global roster of 14 digital artists curated by MV Art, who use digital technology to creatively generate artworks as part of their ongoing practice. Hailing from all over the world, works created by these artists comprise a variety of styles – from retro to futuristic, from surrealist to hyper-realist, and…
WHAT Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) worked primarily in oil, watercolour, and ink, also occasionally creating engravings and lithographs. Arriving in Paris in 1948, Zao was inspired and enlightened by the French capital, and the admiration of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) during his formative years evolved, and throughout his artistic career he…
WHAT This is Lui Shou-Kwan (1919-1975)’s sixth solo exhibition at Alisan Fine Arts, where he first exhibited in 1984. It is also the third in a series of important shows the gallery has planned for its 40th Anniversary celebration this year. With a focus on his modern landscape paintings from the 1950s and 60s, the…
WHAT Famed artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018) is celebrated for his unique contributions to the Pop art movement, where he embraced the power of language, colour and form, while harnessing the American identity and his own personal history. During his career, he produced one of the most iconic bodies of work of the 20th and 21st…
WHAT Poetic Enigma I is an exhibition of NFTs created by 3 notable artists of the contemporary art world, and 4 NFT creators established in the digital world. The showcase engages audiences with its unique perspectives on philosophy and life, and reflects the trending digital culture of the NFT world. The exhibition takes place in…
WHAT Annie Leibovitz bought her first camera after her freshman year at the San Francisco Art Institute, and while still a student, she approached ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine – just three years after its inception – with a few of her photographs. She soon embarked on what would develop into a symbiotic relationship between the young…
WHAT The duo exhibition by Hong Kong artists Fatina Kong and Kwong Man Chun centres around the theme of memory. Articulated with the artists' unique aesthetics through overlaying colours and mediums, both Kong and Kwong visually represent the hazy and distant scenes within one’s mind –– which could be a memory, or a fragment of…
WHAT In the 1970s, when monochromatic art (Dansaekhwa) was prevalent, Lee was a trailblazer. In addition to being a founding member of the artist group Space and Time, he was also a pioneer of performance art in Korea. However, his practice also includes sculpture, installation, and video work. For the artist’s third exhibition at the…
WHAT French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel’s enchanting aesthetics revolves around the notion of emotional geometry. Through the repetition of modular elements such as bricks or his signature beads, he creates exquisite jewelry-like sculptures whose relationship to the human scale ranges from intimacy to monumentality. His predilection for materials with reversible and often reflective properties—particularly blown glass,…
