exhibitions

auwee

by Andi Fischer

2024.03.26 - 04.26

(open tue - sat, 12 - 7pm)

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yee society is pleased to present “auwee”, the first Hong Kong exhibition of Andi Fischer in the Hong Kong art month, March.  

Andi is a Berlin-based artist who creates energetic paintings and drawings that simulate a child-like naiveté inspired by art history.

In Andi’s works, the decisive lines and colouring are reminiscent of children’s drawings or wooden toys, there are all sorts of juxtapositions: people and animals meet again and again, sometimes to hunt or to fight.

Although the typical constellations of tigers and lions, ravens, eagles and snakes, knights and kings, often refer to some iconic historical art works such as Peter Paul Rubens’s Prometheus Bound (1612) in AAA LEBER SCHMERZT (2019), with Andi’s unique humorous translation, the characters and motifs emancipate themselves from their traditional models.

FONDNESS BY YOUR SIDE

by Yoon Hyung Taek

(open tue - sat, 12 - 7pm)

10 Nov - 17 Dec 2023

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Artist depicts a warm and peaceful configuration, and the sense of quiet togetherness is explored with fascination.

Fondness falls between the familiarity of Love and the comfortable feeling of Like. The nuanced warm stir of Like is more precious to the artist, hence the recurrence side profiles in his artworks. This unique perception favours neither Love nor Like, but as an emotion that is still, calm and mature, which folds into the sense of affection again and again.

The characters in the artworks can be viewed as lovers, close friends, family or any person that encompasses a loving, tranquil and unguarded disposition.

My Little Planet

by Kanako Ozawa

(open wed - sun, 1pm - 7pm)

17 March - 16 April 2023

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私は人間の「冷静さ」「衝動」「感情」「直感」というものにとても興味があります。

それは自分にとって適切なバランスで実現させる事が非常に難しい要素だからです。

作品世界に存在する静かな生の気配が、今を生きる自分が必要とすべき感覚や記憶を呼び起こし、日々の生活で見失いがちな、自分本来の姿を見せてくれることに期待しています。

私の作品が香港の方にどう受け止めていただけるのかとても楽しみにしています。

I am very interested in human's "calmness", "impulse", "emotion" and "intuition".

This is because I believe it is very difficult for people to achieve the right balance.

I hope the calm and quiet atmosphere shown through my artworks will evoke the senses and memories that we need in order to truly live in the present, and help us discover our true self, which I find myself easily losing touch in daily life.

I am looking forward to seeing how my work to be seen and experienced by the people of Hong Kong.

To be a giant and keep quiet about it

Curated by Margot Samel

6 October - 12 November 2022

To be a giant and keep quiet about it

Artists: Alicia Adamerovich, Neil Bickerton, Miguel Cardenas, Olivia Jia, August Krogan-Roley, Stephen Polatch, Autumn Wallace and Areum Yang

Curated by Margot Samel

This group exhibition takes its title from the first line of Howard Nemerov’s poem Trees, “To be a giant and keep quiet about it.” The opening is a lyrical expression of non-human dignity, reflecting the awakening environmental awareness and environmental imagination of the mid-twentieth century. Nemerov, an acclaimed American poet Laureate from New York who often wrote about the duality of nature, published Trees in 1977 (from The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, University of Chicago Press), a prescient discourse which counters the notion of human beings occupying a privileged position in our world. It was written after the first images of planet earth from the moon forever changed temporal and visual perception in relation to landscape, yet Nemerov’s intimate moments, drawn from introspection and imaginative empathy, restore a sense of earthly discovery. This sense of discovery is one that art has repeatedly claimed.

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