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May 21, 2013 · by Editor, Artistory · in MAY ISSUE. ·10 interesting shows around and during Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

While we can’t wait to look at the first version of Art Basel in Hong Kong, there is already a constellation of events that coalescearound the art fair. Many of them are no less interesting indeed. Here are some recommendations:

1) New Framework: Chinese Avant-garde Photography 1980s-90s (www.blindspotgallery.com/en/exhibitions)12 May–22 June 2013Blindspot Annex (Wong Chuk Hang) & Blindspot Gallery (Central)

From the 1980s to 1990s, Chinese photography developed through the key stages of “New Documentary” photography, conceptualphotography and experimental photography. Curated by RongRong, this exhibition showcases the major styles and evolving facetsof avant-garde photography from the period. The title New Framework denotes how these Chinese photographers used the mediumto establish a new visual framework outside of the academia and institutions, and to create artworks that resonate withexperimentalism.

2) Bright Light has Much the Same Effect as Ice – a solo exhibition by Leung Chi Wo (www.2p-gallery.com/#/exhibition/4574244640)17 May–11 June 20132P Contemporary Art Gallery

A combination of multimedia photographic light boxes, journalistic text from the time and a silver coin minted in the 1983 make upthis exhibition that will be on show in the gallery throughout Art Basel Hong Kong 2013. At the center of the exhibition lies afour-part light box installation illuminating an image Leung had in his possession of Pun Lun’s work. Leung is adept at combininghistorical context with human experience contextualized within a contemporary narrative.

3) I Think It Rains (www.oneaspace.org.hk/exhibitions/132.htm)17 May–30 Jun 20131a space, Hong Kong

I Think It Rains brings together artists, writers, and critics invited by Burger Collection and 1a space from Hong Kong and abroad ina tentative of creating a cross-disciplinary collaborative model. The project takes place on the premises of the Cattle Depot ArtistVillage, a heritage site located in the old town centre of Kowloon, within an overall time frame of three years to roll out a series ofsustainable activities, including two exhibitions, artist residencies, panels and workshops, performances, multi-function projectrooms as well as the production of ephemera and a catalogue documenting the process. The participants will develop one possiblemode of collaboration, which connects a local and an international organization, both mindful of the cultural specificity of HongKong and of transnational currents of contemporary artistic practice. The current exhibition is the first of the two in the series.

(http://artistoryhk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/stolte_2.jpg)Fiete Stolte

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Turn, 2008Burger Collection, Hong KongCourtesy of Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin, the artist and 1a Space

4) A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story (www.para-site.org.hk/en/exhibitions/2013/journal-plague-year-fear-ghosts-rebels-sars-leslie-and-hong-kong-story)17 May–20 July at Para Site17 May–26 May at a private flat, 5/F, 30 Queen Street, Sheung Wan17 May–26 May at Sheung Wan Civic Centre Exhibition Hall

Starting from the events that affected Hong Kong in the spring of 2003, the exhibition traces the different narratives, historicalbackgrounds as well as the implications of these events in relation to the contemporary culture and politics of Hong Kong and theworld. The exhibition aims to navigate through these disparate though interconnected narratives and to contribute to a criticaldiscussion about Hong Kong’s recent history with the help of works by local and international artists, as well as of pop culturalartifacts and archival documents. The show is curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero.

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5) Market Forces: The Friction of Opposite (www.osagegallery.com)17 May–17 July 2013Osage Kwun Tong

Market Forces: The Friction of Opposite is the second edition of Osage Art Foundation’s annual exhibition of Market Forces, which willprovoke and challenge existing theories of value in art. Five curators from around the region will each present an individual projectthat examines notions of value. The curators are Joselina Cruz, Ark Fongsmut, Lee Daehyung, Qiu Zhijie and Alia Swastika.

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(http://artistoryhk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/marketforces2013_jinshan_1024px.jpg)Jin ShanWater Division (still)2007VideoDuration: 7’21!Image courtesy of the artist

6) Hong Kong Arts Centre 1st Annual Collectors’ Contemporary Collaboration — May Dialogues (www.hkac.org.hk/en/calendar.php?c=1&p=1&id=1107)18–30 May 2013Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre

May Dialogues exhibition displays the collection highlights of several local art collectors, whose vision and taste of art can beexplored through some of their collection themes – “ The Painterly Stroke”, “My home, My art” and “Homage”, etc. Selectedartworks include painting, ink art and video art by international, regional and local artists including Christo and Jeanne-Claude,Neil Jenney, Rob and Nick Carter Richard Hamilton, John Stewart, Michael Whittle, Willy Verginer, Douglas Coupland, GrahamGillmore, Jeff Wall, Fang Li Jun, Liu Dahong, Zhan Wang, Caroline Chiu, Chow Chun Fai, Lee Kit, Cissy Pao, Tony Wong, Wai PongYu, Wong Wai Yin, Yu Cheng Ta, Chim"Pom, Yuichi Higashionna, Ryozo Kato and Yoo Seung Ho.

7) Writings Without Borders (http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/2013-05-01_writings-without-borders/press_release/0/exhibition_work#5)21 May-20 July 2013Lehmann Maupin

Organized by Lehmann Maupin and curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, Writings Without Borders is a dynamic group show featuring aselection of Eastern and Western contemporary artists exploring notions of language. The show highlights a wide variety of artisticstyles, ranging from painting, drawing, photography, embroidery, and neon, by Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, He An, ShirazehHoushiary, Idris Khan, Barbara Kruger, Eko Nugroho, Pak Sheung Chuen, Robin Rhode, Tsang Kin-wah, and Zheng Guogu.

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(http://artistoryhk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/lmg_writings_without_borders_2013_inst_01_hr0.jpg)Writings Without Borders, installation viewCourtesy of Lehmann Maupin

8) MOBILES by Xavier Veilhan (http://www.perrotin.com/exhibition-Xavier_VEILHAN-1567.html)21 May – 6 July 2013Galerie Perrotin

Organized by Galerie Perrotin, Xavier Veilhan’s solo show Mobiles features a group of recently made mobile installations of differentvarious shapes and dimensions. Xavier Veilhan often presents exhibitions in the form of wanderings and site-specific interventionsin cities, parks or living environments.

9) Jake & Dinos Chapman, The Sum of all Evil (http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/)22 May – 31 August 2013White Cube

Monumental in scope and minute in detail, The Sum of all Evil (2012-13) occupies the entire ground floor of the gallery and is themost densely imagined diorama installation that the artists have produced to date. The fourth in a series of ‘Hell’ landscapes – thefirst and most well-known of which, Hell (1999), was destroyed in a warehouse fire – the work features a multitude of intricatelymodelled Nazi soldiers, along with various characters from the fast food chain McDonald’s, committing violent, abhorrent acts setamid an apocalyptic landscape within four glass vitrines. Darkly humorous, The Sum of all Evil, as its title suggests, is imaginativerather than descriptive: a summation of all the worst possible ‘evils’, violence runs amok in a trans-historical and a-temporal arena.

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The Sum of all Evil2012-2013Fibreglass, plastic and mixed media in four vitrines© Jake and Dinos ChapmanPhoto: Ben WestobyCourtesy White Cube

10) Nature of Speed (http://www.galleryexit.com/201306.html)23 May – 22 June 2013Gallery EXIT

Nature of Speed is a group exhibition co-organized by Ibid. (London, UK) and Gallery EXIT (Hong Kong) with works by DavidADAMO, Alfred BOMAN, LIN Xue, NI Youyu, Christopher ORR, Alexander RUTHNER, TSANG Chui Mei, XIE Zhengli, XUE Fengand YANG Xinguang. The exhibition presents a hyperbolized view of our contemporary environment as we are engulfed by themadness that ensues.

(http://artistoryhk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/rt5vp2u37i1ccvxl0m4dzl9xodxp6mwxldl3yf1rvsm.jpg)Xue FengBackground-322012Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cmCourtesy of Gallery EXIT and the artist

Tags: 1a Space, 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong, Blindspot Gallery, Galerie Perrotin, Gallery EXIT, Hong KongArts Centre, Lehmann Maupin, Osage Gallery, Pao Galleries, Para Site, White Cube

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