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Izumi Kato
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHO Izumi Kato WHAT The well-known Japanese artist (b.1969) is known for depicting haunting humanoid figures referencing Kodama - tree spirits seen in Japanese animé, bearing qualities reminiscent of fictional extra- terrestrial beings. His exhibition showcases his latest explorations in paintings and sculptures of this familiar motif. Another recurring theme is dualism: his figures are…
Portraits
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT The Japanese sculptor’s works are infused with solitary visions and moments, turning vague images in his mind into tangible beings for others to observe, imagine, and perceive: Silent and bulging heads, figures with their arms raised like praying figures, monumental middle figures extended upwards, anthropomorphic vases, children, animals, soils, and bronzes. His work blurs…
Shame of Intimacy
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT The body and portraits have always held significant importance for the Chinese contemporary artist. Through her fragmented and depersonalised depictions of naked bodies, she challenges conventional notions of bodily beauty, prompting viewers to question their own understanding of intimacy through the painterly gaze. Her imaginative titles and the recognisable-yet-transformed bodies create a thought-provoking experience…
The Tombs Are Upset
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT For the American artist’s first exhibition at the gallery, six new sculptures of hand-carved, hand-dyed polychromed basswood are presented. The exhibition’s title derives from a single artwork installed on a single pedestal, spanning over three and a half metres. The artwork is composed of a series of compositions, each placing one abstracted, biomorphic element…
Midnight Spill
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT In her first solo exhibition in Asia, the Austria-born LA-based artist displays a number of new paintings, which are presented alongside Art Basel Hong Kong. The artist was previously based in Vienna for 16 years, but made a move to Los Angeles in 2017. The relocation was the third in a series of residencies,…
The World is Wonderful
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT In the French artist’s second solo exhibition in the gallery’s Hong Kong space, he presents his latest series of paintings based on the idea that there is a vast art-historical gulf between painting of destruction and destruction of painting. In these colourful almost-experimental works, he offers the world a bridge between that gulf by…
A Scenery of Time
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT The Korean artist’s debut exhibition with Perrotin is a presentation of paintings from the last fifteen years that examine the theme of reverence of nature and its circulation. The essential themes encompassing his oeuvre are ‘nature’ and ‘temporality’. Shim continuously strives to pursue the quest for how to perceive and express them with the…
Aura
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT The artist's second solo exhibition in Hong Kong since 2017, a series of new paintings is presented, as part of a greater mise-en-scene that transforms the gallery into a human-scale composition. His surrealistic compositions combine elements from diverse genres of painting to create collage-like constructions. Taking Walter Benjamin’s concept of the 'aura' (from the…
Jean-Michel Othoniel
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT 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,…
Future Herbarium
Perrotin Hong Kong 807 K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, Victoria Dockside, KowloonWHAT WE KNOW Renowned French conceptual artist, Laurent Grasso, works with a vast range of mediums. His research into science, history, mythology and the supernatural forms the foundation of his work. Experimenting with video, installation, painting, and photography - to name a few - he immerses his audience in stories rather than in the physicality…
