Calendar
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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Len Lye, Individuals, Networks, Expressions
M+, Hong Kong
12 November 2021 —
05 February 2023
The artists and artworks presented in Individuals, Networks, Expressions form a complex web of connections. Together, they create a story of visual art that unfolds across time and intertwines individual and shared experiences. At the centre of this web is Asia, a geographic designation and a broad cultural space that informs a spectrum of identities, histories, and perspectives. The artists featured in this exhibition make use of a vast array of techniques, materials, formats, and methods to reflect on their cultural or social contexts or on larger shifts in the geopolitical world order. Included in the exhibition is Len Lye's work, Free Radicals (1958-79).
The artists and artworks presented in Individuals, Networks, Expressions form a complex web of connections. Together, they create a story of visual art that unfolds across time and intertwines individual and shared experiences. At the centre of this web is Asia, a geographic designation and a broad cultural space that informs a spectrum of identities, histories, and perspectives. The artists featured in this exhibition make use of a vast array of techniques, materials, formats, and methods to reflect on their cultural or social contexts or on larger shifts in the geopolitical world order. Included in the exhibition is Len Lye's work, Free Radicals (1958-79).
David Boyce, A Cow's Head and a Horse's Jaw
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
15 June —
24 July 2021
Karin Weber Gallery is excited to announce a joint exhibition by David Boyce and Hiu Tung Lau, two artists in dialogue who between them cover a multitude of artistic expressions and mediums, yet, at first glance could be considered a ‘cow’s head with a horse’s jaw’ to cite an old Chinese proverb. Both artists come from entirely different backgrounds and career trajectories but share Hong Kong as their chosen place to live and work. All works in the show are recent and were created during the disruptive period of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
New Zealand born David Boyce adopts a globally focused, conceptual approach. Perhaps best known for his photography practice, Boyce’s works in this show provide a surprising departure from his preferred medium to explore alternative techniques and materials. His new pandemic–focused series Beauty in Danger fuses acrylic paint with velvet fabric and overlays these striking pieces with a sound accompaniment to create punchy multisensory works. In an alternative series, oil paintings this time, Boyce shines a humorous, yet perceptive light on the idiosyncrasies of the art world ecosystem with simple, text-based works such as Of Course I Should Talk With My Art Advisor First or I Can Make Multiples 1-4.
Karin Weber Gallery is excited to announce a joint exhibition by David Boyce and Hiu Tung Lau, two artists in dialogue who between them cover a multitude of artistic expressions and mediums, yet, at first glance could be considered a ‘cow’s head with a horse’s jaw’ to cite an old Chinese proverb. Both artists come from entirely different backgrounds and career trajectories but share Hong Kong as their chosen place to live and work. All works in the show are recent and were created during the disruptive period of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
New Zealand born David Boyce adopts a globally focused, conceptual approach. Perhaps best known for his photography practice, Boyce’s works in this show provide a surprising departure from his preferred medium to explore alternative techniques and materials. His new pandemic–focused series Beauty in Danger fuses acrylic paint with velvet fabric and overlays these striking pieces with a sound accompaniment to create punchy multisensory works. In an alternative series, oil paintings this time, Boyce shines a humorous, yet perceptive light on the idiosyncrasies of the art world ecosystem with simple, text-based works such as Of Course I Should Talk With My Art Advisor First or I Can Make Multiples 1-4.
Sriwhana Spong, trust & confusion
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
05 May 2021 —
01 January 2022
Aotearoa artist Sriwhana Spong's Instrument 8 (Monster Chicken), 2021, features in trust & confusion, a group exhibition at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.
trust & confusion is about the conversation of certainty and chance; the transformative power of bodies, intangibles, and ephemeral encounters; music and magic; and the luck of being alive, with all the concerns that come with it, be they human or not. Evolving, accumulating, the exhibition unfolds over several episodes, on site and online, from now to the end of the year.
A new commission by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Instrument H refers to the chicken as the vertebrate animal that outnumbers any other on this planet today, with over 23 billion; the production and consumption of chicken thus place tremendous pressure on global ecologies. On the other hand, the sculpture could be seen as an extension of chicken bone divination, an ancient practice still in use. Found in cultures worldwide, bone-reading, or osteomancy, entrusts the bones with the power to reveal the future and recount the past. As such, the chicken bones could be considered a compass, a tool that shows the way. Activating the sculpture as an instrument, the bronze bones are dragged through the space daily, as their tinkling sounds merge with the sonic waves emitted by other objects in the exhibition: a future-telling.
Aotearoa artist Sriwhana Spong's Instrument 8 (Monster Chicken), 2021, features in trust & confusion, a group exhibition at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.
trust & confusion is about the conversation of certainty and chance; the transformative power of bodies, intangibles, and ephemeral encounters; music and magic; and the luck of being alive, with all the concerns that come with it, be they human or not. Evolving, accumulating, the exhibition unfolds over several episodes, on site and online, from now to the end of the year.
A new commission by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Instrument H refers to the chicken as the vertebrate animal that outnumbers any other on this planet today, with over 23 billion; the production and consumption of chicken thus place tremendous pressure on global ecologies. On the other hand, the sculpture could be seen as an extension of chicken bone divination, an ancient practice still in use. Found in cultures worldwide, bone-reading, or osteomancy, entrusts the bones with the power to reveal the future and recount the past. As such, the chicken bones could be considered a compass, a tool that shows the way. Activating the sculpture as an instrument, the bronze bones are dragged through the space daily, as their tinkling sounds merge with the sonic waves emitted by other objects in the exhibition: a future-telling.