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Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street),
December 12 - 29, 2008 | top |
Live Young
Works of Yang Dazhi & Fu Xiaodong
Creativity is abundant in how this husband
and wife team manipulate each specific medium. Their
works, though are very different one from the other, are
brimmed with the same message of
youthfulness. The works of the husband, Yang
Dazhi, are colourful figures of fables or children’s
stories and the wife, Fu Xiaodong, works on pixel
graffiti of the New Youth generation.
Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street),
November 5 - 28, 2008 | top |
FRAGMENTS
Oil paintings of Gao Zengli
The paintings of Gao Zengli are fragments of
his memories reconstructed. They are illusory imageries
suspended in his mind. What, visually, appear like
portraits of some famous personalities such as the last
Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Pu-yi, and Chairman Mao
are, in fact, mere symbols employed by Gao for his
artistic expression.
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Art Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd.,
October 17, 2008 - January 23, 2009 | top |
See Them Everywhere
Works of Won Seok Lim
In the exhibition, “See Them Everywhere”, as
seen through the eyes of the artist, the works present
something extraordinarily simple, and leads viewers to
witness the metamorphosis of something, upon first
glance, that we might not really see or understand.
Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street),
October 2 - 25, 2008 | top |
Tangles and Ties
Paintings of Mimi Chen Ting
Tangles and Ties are all about the many
dances in life. American-Chinese artist Mimi Chen Ting
laid down on canvases the pictorial road maps of the
tangles and ties of her past experiences, dreams and
imaginations. The interactions of the cords and
strings in her paintings have become metaphors to
express many of her inner resonances. "I am not seeking
for a resolution, only to embrace and honour the bonds
that make us one."
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Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street), July
31 - August 23, 2008 | top |
Running Water Mountain High
Acrylic Shan-Shui paintings of Water Poon
Poon's acrylic Shan-Shui is clearly an
extension of his ink Shan-Shui paintings, which he
started a few years ago. The new works are more
clean-cut. The minimal treatment in depiction aims to
catch and bring forth the deep tranquillity of Mother
Nature rather than to explore the complexity of the
scenery.
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Art Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd.,
July 11 - September 12, 2008 | top |
Beautiful Beast
Prints of Wuon-Gean Ho
Life, death, memories and nostalgia are
common themes in Wuon-Gean Ho's work. As a veterinarian,
the artist witnesses death on a daily basis and is moved
to reflect her response to these experiences through her
art.
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From Pit #5
Sculptures of Zhang Wanxin
The new finds from Pit #5 are a fusion of
the Eastern and Western cultures. They blend the past,
present and future together. One most visible
characteristic of Zhang Wanxin’s new warriors is the
pair of round sun-glasses over their noses which have
helped hiding the souls of these figures. Wanxin used
this simple but self-assured addition to enhance the
contemporary nature as well as the spiritual impact of
his warriors.
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Naked Eyes
Works of Pauline Chan So Yee
Pauline Chan So Yee belongs to the group of
young Hong Kong artists who dares to test their limits
as well as to reach deep into their creativity,
exploring ways to realize what they are eager to share
in their works. In "Naked Eyes", So Yee touches on
two extremely sensitive areas that are challenging us
every day, privacy and mental scars.
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Solo Works of Shyh-Charng Lo
Works of Shyh-Charng Lo
Lo’s works which are slightly abstracted
versions of the landscape around him, are based on the
feeling and essence of his surroundings, not the actual
objects. His paintings are commonly referred to as
tranquil, bringing peace and quietude to the viewer.
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WASHI
Ink Works of Hiroshi Hara
The artist’s current works are made on his
own handmade washi with Japanese ink. Many pieces have
names relating to nature and natural phenomena, much the
same as the washi itself which is made from plant
materials and water. Hara feels the idea behind
his work and technique brings focus back to an
ecological lifestyle that is important to our
contemporary society. He is always conscious of
the work that goes into making washi and the elements
from the natural environment used to produce not only
the paper, but his work itself.
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Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street), March
28 - April 19, 2008 | top |
Speechless
Oil Paintings of Liu Xuejun
In "Speechless", Beijing-based artist Liu
Xuejun manipulates the usage of hand forms as his
creative icons for messages that he wishes to
convey. For hundreds of years, the hand signs of
Buddhist statutes have been relating soul-soothing
teachings. Such gestures of the hand need no further
explanation with words. In his series of exhibits, Liu
applied the same concept but differently. His hands,
some of them distorted to accentuate his statements,
were depicted to voice his speechless frustration,
cynicism as well as anger.
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Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street), March
3 - 26, 2008 | top
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China - With My Brownie
Works of Carl Corey
Once every year Art Beatus Gallery will show
the works of a non-Chinese artist and in March 2008 we
will display the photographs of American artist, Carl
Corey, taken with his non-adjustable vintage 1954 Kodak
pinhole camera in Hong Kong and parts of southern China
last year.
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Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street),
January 31 - February 29, 2008 | top |
Black On White
Works of Lei Ling
Lei Ling completes all of her pen drawings
with Indian ink on white paper. In her works, black
lines are lines of ink, while the white lines are thin
linear white spaces left empty amongst fields of small
black strokes. The white spaces are empty white paper
areas left blank but the black spaces are patches of
needlework composed of hundreds of black strokes.
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Art Beatus Hong Kong (Graham Street),
January 2 - 25, 2008 | top |
Desire / Disappearance
In the Disappearance series, Fung focused on
some of the structures that were hot in the news such as
the Star Ferry Clock Tower, the Queen’s Pier, the Oil
Street Government Warehouse that was once an artists'
commune and the aged resettlement estates, that was once
Hong Kong's housing solution for tens of thousands of
residents. The Desire series, of course, captured items
that were more pleasurable with images from three of the
world's largest shopping malls: Central, Mongkok and
Causeway Bay of Hong Kong.
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