First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Lee Mingwei: Liquid Forms 29 May – 27 June 2010 Osage Gallery 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Bldg., 73-75 Hung To Rd., Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Continuing a solid stretch of exhibitions examining the conditions of cross-cultural exchange within the global Asian heritage, Osage Gallery reveals at [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Butterfrog: New Works by Wu Shanzhuan
Monday, May 31, 2010
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Butterfrog: New Works by Wu Shanzhuan 29 May – 23 June Hanart TZ Gallery 202 Henley Bldg., 5 Queen’s Rd. Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong The work of fabled conceptual artist Wu Shanzhuan has always navigated a mass of visual and linguistic material containing everything from the [...]
Deep Ambiguity: A Conversation with Ben Houge
Sunday, May 16, 2010
This is the extended version of a discussion between Ben Houge and Robin Peckham (in italics), to be published in a forthcoming publication focusing on new media. It was carried out in person and via email between September 2009 and April 2010. When you work with Chinese artists and musicians, how do the cultural politics [...]
What’s on in Hong Kong
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
First published in LEAP, Volume 1 Issue 3. Text by Robin Peckham. The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today 1 May – 27 June Osage Gallery 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong +852-2793-4817 www.osagegallery.com In his first major curatorial outing since joining Osage, Eugene Tan brings together a broad [...]
A Little Afterschool Flavor
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Afterschool 2/F 17 Yun Ping Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong The order of the day in Hong Kong this week is abstraction: monumental and microscopic, minimal and maximal, monochrome and technicolor–a good number of the city’s galleries seem to be getting in on the act. All [...]
Quiet Drawing
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Kong Chun Hei: Gleaning Gallery EXIT G/F, 1 Shin Hing Street, Central SAR, Hong Kong, China April 9, 2010 – May 22, 2010 Another much maligned practice in the contemporary Chinese art world is that of the sketch. Gallery Exit, the small young commercial space in [...]
Light Play
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. LSR Connoisseur Contemporary G4, Chinachem Hollywood Centre 1 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, China May 6, 2010 – May 28, 2010 The exhibition “LSR” more or less continues Beijing-based artist Li Shurui’s long-standing series “Lights,” based on her aesthetic interest in the LED arrays of skylines and [...]
Color Me Asia
Monday, May 10, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today Osage Kwun Tong 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China May 1, 2010 – June 27, 2010 The first thing to know about “The Burden of Representation” is that it is not, in fact, concerned [...]
At the End of the Rainbow
Monday, May 10, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Definitions of Time: Painting by Au Hoi Lam Edge Gallery G/F, 60C Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China May 7, 2010 – June 30, 2010 “Nice painting,” full of rainbow palettes, white lace, and poetic textual overlays, is a difficult genre in the broader Chinese [...]
This is Hong Kong
Thursday, May 6, 2010
First published by Para/Site Art Space in a catalogue for the exhibition This is Hong Kong. Text by Robin Peckham. Download the original attachment Kingsley Ng, “Record: Light,” 2008, 3’06″ “Record: Light” presents a seemingly tranquil view of Central district in Hong Kong at night, including several of the landmark architectural features that characterize the [...]
