Wangsim Selects: Hong Kong Showroom (3rd Edition)
14 May-24 June
Reception: 13.05.2021 6:30pm – 9pm
Duration: 14.05.2021 – 24.06.2021
Venue: 7/F K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road, TST, Hong Kong
Exhibiting Artists
Matthew Barney
Anna Leonhardt
Christopher Parrott
Julian Schnabel
Shozo Shimamoto
Kazuo Shiraga
Luc Tuymans
Andy Warhol
Wangsim is pleased to present the third edition of Wangsim Selects: Hong
Kong Showroom. The group exhibition features works by 8 important
contemporary artists. Some of the highlighted pieces were made before
the artists achieved international fame, offering a rare art-viewing
experience while the physical art fair season returns to the city.
A small-scaled painting by American artist Julian Schnabel (Untitled, 1995)
will be debuted in Hong Kong through the program, showcasing the artist’s
great ability of morphing, changing and expressing using various materials.
The piece—although in contrast to Schnabel’s other audaciously scaled
paintings made in the early 1990s—engages the viewers with life’s grand
themes: obsession, sexuality, belief, and emotion. The Gutai movement
will also be featured in the presentation with iconic pieces by Kazuo
Shiraga (Untitled, ca. 1980) and Shozo Shimamoto (Untitled, 2009) on
view, a revisitation to the important Japanese art movement’s experimental
and liberating approach to art making.
The program also creates an extraordinary dialogue from artist to artist
through shared media. An early charcoal drawing by highly celebrated
Belgian artist Luc Tuymans will be on display. With the artist’s signature
muted palette and eerie lights, the drawing is related to an important series
of works by the artist, which sheds light on the history of Congo. Skilled
painter New York-based Christopher Parrot firmly believes in the
eventfulness of the gallery space. With charcoal drawings (Sins of Empire,
2017; Great Divide, 2012; Sirens, 2008) depicting fully clothed and nude
people against the white wall space, the artist focuses on the history of
human social roles and the visual art in general. Additional works and
collectables in various media by Matthew Barney, Anna Leonhardt and
Andy Warhol will also be featured in this edition of the showroom presentation.
Wangsim Selects online viewing program was initiated as a knee-jerk
reaction to the pandemic breakout in 2020. Since the Wangsim’s physical
showroom opened last summer in Hong Kong’s brand new art destination
Victoria Dockside, the physical program has witnessed three editions with
presentations of important contemporary art pieces. With the city’s public
restrictions gradually lifted, a preview reception will be hosted for the
current edition. Wangsim Showroom opens daily by appointment.
To RSVP and know more the upcoming event please contact:
Adel Wang
info@wangsim.com
+852 6843 0499