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Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The exhibition explores the intersection of art and environment, seen through the eyes of the Spanish-born Belgium-based artist (b.1968). Taking on the alter-ego of Straatman (‘man of the street’) and venturing into different environments - both natural and urban - he creates paintings that absorb and reflect the atmosphere of these environments. For this…
Time Scape
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The respected Japanese artist (b.1946) holds a place as a pioneer of video art in Japan, having lived his young life amid the social changes from the postwar reconstruction period of Japan to its rapid economic growth. He continues to express the ‘time scape’ of that era in his photographs and videos. His unique…
Between Emptiness and Form: Exploring Emotion and Essence
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The three exhibiting artists are from different countries and generations. Italian Marco Tirelli plays with light and shadow due to his training as a set designer. His paintings are open to the audience’s interpretation and invite mental participation. Belgian Renato Nicolodi presents sculpture and painting works that offer platforms for the viewer’s contemplation, as…
Space Walk
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT Based in Germany, the artist is known for creating suspended, seemingly floating sculptures. In this way, the artist calls for interaction and dialogue with the works, which can only be experienced through examination, approach, repositioning, and a changed perspective. The artist’s creations oscillate between presence and absence, the seen and the unseen, suggesting both…
Topography of Body
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT This is Daegu-born artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Her multi-media artistic and performance practice address formalistic questions of painting as well as existential issues of the human condition, such as migration, poverty, violence, and the displaced self. Her principle of ‘non-doing’ and ‘non-making’ follows an investigation of performance through modes of mobility…
A Trace of Time
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The exhibition is the artist’s fifth show with the gallery, but the first since his passing in November 2018. Known as a pioneer in modern Kobe performance art, he significantly influenced Japan’s contemporary art scene and often worked in collaboration with friends, which led to an impressive body of performative work. He was also…
Chasing an Elusive Nature
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The first Hong Kong artist in the gallery’s roster, this is Lam's first solo exhibition since 2013. Spanning an entire gallery floor, the presentation is a mix of site-specific creations and sculptures made of a variety of materials from crate wood to umbrella fabric. Her new works are presented in congruence with some of…
Brushstroke and Beyond
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT Inspired by the Qing Dynasty philosopher, Shitao, who advocated that art should focus on the primality of a single, holistic brushstroke, the group exhibition showcases works by eight artists who encapsulate this philosophy. Hailing from diverse backgrounds and countries spanning from Western Europe to East Asia, each artist uses the idea of Shitao’s ‘one…
Tsuyoshi Maekawa Solo Exhibition
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The current exhibition displays the artistic development of Japanese artist, Tsuyoshi Maekawa (b.1936), spanning from his entire career, and most significantly from his time as a member of the Gutai Art Association, which was Japan's most significant avant-garde collective of the post-war era. The works presented trace the artist’s development pre-Gutai until his exploration…
Tanaka and Shiraga: Material and Action
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT This focus exhibition showcases the works of two boundary-breaking Japanese artists who belonged to the Gutai Art Association, a pioneering post-war avant-garde group. While the adventurous works of Ryuji Tanaka from the late 1950s incorporate unconventional materials into the traditional Nihonga practice, Kazuo Shiraga’s pursuit of action painting captures the spirit of the Gutai…
Cafés
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT The exhibition marks the first presentation in Hong Kong since the Barbarigo’s passing in 2018 at 97 years old. It includes 22 works from the late 1960s and 1970s that were kept in the artist’s Venetian home for nearly 50 years, which are recently restored and exhibited for the first time. The subject of…
Shen Chen
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT 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…
Boundless Union
Axel Vervoordt Gallery 21/F Coda Designer Centre, 62 Wong Chuk Hang Road, AberdeenWHAT WE KNOW The exhibition showcases a series of landscape photographs by artist Bae Bien-U as well as ceramic Moon Jars by contemporary master Kwon Dae-Sup. Both artists, born in Korea in the 1950s, have dedicated their decades-long careers to creating art that relates to their homeland and employs different artistic approaches to embody the Confucian philosophies of unity and harmony with nature. …
