[Abu Dhabi Art 2023] [Hong Kong Focus]

Abu Dhabi Art opens on 22 November. Besides Rossi & Rossi’s presentation at Booth G11, visit Hong Kong Focus section at G5 to see works by Szelit Cheung, Mark Chung and Nicole Wong.

Light is the basic element that makes up the human visual perception of dimensions. Diverting from meticulously structured spaces, Szelit Cheung fixates on the transformative power of light in his second solo exhibition at Rossi & Rossi. Titled 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸, the exhibition presents a new body of paintings on linen and wood, all depictions of spaces illuminated by a single light source. The perpetual ray of light often beams through a window, a skylight or an opening in a wall, halting our sense of time. The abstraction of structural features detaches Cheung’s works from symbolic or narrative representation – leaving viewers to decide what they see.

Schoeni Projects is pleased to co-present with THE SHOPHOUSE, ‘Door to Door’, a residency programme developed as a cultural exchange programme between artists based in Hong Kong and the UK. Over the summer of 2023, this dual residency involves an exchange of artistic ideas, creating dialogue between participating artists Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova, and their audience.

Spirituality is a broad, etymologically ever-evolving concept. Humans turn to it for a multitude of reasons: to seek divinity, to reach transcendence from within, to foster kinship. 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, opening at Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong on 23 September, outlines interpretations and expressions of the intangible and elusive matter of spirituality. The works on view, including paintings, drawings and sculptures, are idiosyncratic visual expressions stemming from personal queries on spirituality and the introspection that follows.

Door to Door Artist in Residency 2023 (United Kingdom)

Co-presented by THE SHOPHOUSE and Schoeni Projects, DOOR TO DOOR, the artist residency will be hosted in Hong Kong and London in the summer of 2023, with participating artists Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova. The residency programme is developed as a cultural exchange between artists based in Hong Kong and the UK, and aims to encourage artistic exchange and knowledge production.

Co-presented by THE SHOPHOUSE and Schoeni Projects, DOOR TO DOOR, the artist residency will be hosted in Hong Kong and London in the summer of 2023, with participating artists Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova. The residency programme is developed as a cultural exchange between artists based in Hong Kong and the UK, and aims to encourage artistic exchange and knowledge production.

Door to Door Artist Residency 2023 (Hong Kong) Open Studio

Co-presented by THE SHOPHOUSE and Schoeni Projects, DOOR TO DOOR, the artist residency will be hosted in Hong Kong and London in the summer of 2023, with participating artists Szelit Cheung and Olga Grotova. The residency programme is developed as a cultural exchange between artists based in Hong Kong and the UK, and aims to encourage artistic exchange and knowledge production.

We are honored to announce its first large-scale group exhibition “Night is the Shadow of the Earth” running simultaneously in both Wind H Art Center and Click Ten Art Space. The exhibition is curated by Xn Office (Penny Dan Xu and Ni Youyu). With 27 artists and artist groups from around the world, this exhibition will present around 50 works featuring a diverse array of media such as sculpture, installation, painting, photography, video, animation, prints, antiques, and archives. Under the theme of “shadow”, the artists explore the “unknown” and “invisible” in the fields of art, environment, society, psychology, and memory in divergent styles of creation.

Co-presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre, and Hong Kong Art School, and curated by Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network, “The Collectors' Choice Art Exhibition” is open to visitors from 23 March 2023 to 10 April 2023, at 5/F Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre. This exhibition is curated by Miss Shirky Chan, showcasing more than 30 art pieces created by our alumni artists over the years and collected by 9 renowned collectors in Hong Kong. The exhibition will feature displays of paintings, ceramics, photography, video, and installation.

Art Collaboration Kyoto

A Collection in Two Acts
From the collection of Yuri van der Leest, curated by Chris Wan
Rossi & Rossi Wong Chuk Hang

A Collection in Two Acts opens on July 16 through September 16 at Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong. Curated by Chris Wan, the exhibition utilises the private collection of Yuri van der Leest to present two frameworks of collectorship: one is institutional, such as museums and archives — treating artworks as files to be dealt with under a given context of art history; the other is personal, like a private collection built with artworks as repositories of memories and personal encounters. Through the use of critical fabulation, the two modes of art collecting are juxtaposed to raise question about the structure and agency in the art system.

Touch Gallery is pleased to announce our participation at Art Central 2022, featuring five artists from Hong Kong and Japan: Kamio Ogata, Satoshi Kino, Sara Tse, Cheung Sze Lit and William Lim. Through exhibiting a mixture of ceramics and paintings, it shows how each artist’s creative background affects and changes the visual presentation to the work. Also, it constructs a close relationship between the artist and the work, creates a dialogue between each of us, bringing a new visual experience to the audience.

Whitestone Gallery H Queen’s is delighted to present “Space and Memory,” a group exhibition showcasing works by three local emerging artists — Kwong San Tang, Szelit Cheung, and Tap Chan — as part of the HKAGA Summer Programme.

The concept of space has been fundamental to shaping our lived experiences and widely explored by artists and writers across time; from Gaston Bachelard’s monumental work that changed our thoughts and memories of domestic spheres; to Michel Foucault’s heterotopias which refer to ‘places outside of all places’; to the Light and Space movement’s rigorous investigation of perceptual phenomena in the 1960s and 1970s. Similarly, these three Hong Kong artists investigate the ways in which spaces are represented, perceived, and imagined in relation to identities, dreams, and memories, opening up gateways for reflection and contemplation.

ARTISTRY MOMENTS with Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong presented by Tang Contemporary Art.

“Sushi – A World in a Grain of Sand” featuring works of eleven artists from Japan, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Iran. The exhibition is curated by Xn Office, a young Chinese curator team founded by art historian Penny Dan Xu and artist Ni Youyu. Displaying artworks of exceptionally small size, this exhibition celebrates the exquisite, and calls our attention to the power of the minute.

The title of the exhibition references the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012). Jiro Ono, the main character of the film, is more than a master chef, he is an artist chasing perfection in something very small. In the same fashion, the exhibition centers on a set of keywords, such as ‘minuteness’, ‘delicacy’, ‘ordinariness’, and ‘craftsmanship’, displaying works in different media, all of which invite the viewer to “see the large in the small”.

Upon the completion of the two-month artist-in-residence project, Rossi & Rossi will revert to a gallery space for the solo show of Szelit Cheung from July 3rd to 31st, 2021. Pursuing his expedition in the concept of void, Cheung amplifies the characteristics of our gallery space by portraying light and colour in an exquisite manner. His canvases have brought the gallery out of its ordinary presence, enabling it to undergo a metamorphosis from being an exhibition venue to becoming an exhibition’s theme. Titled Space, the show comprises a series of paintings that depict the semi-fictional interior based on the actual structures of the gallery. Space will mark itself as the final show at this gallery space which Rossi & Rossi has inhabited since 2013, and we look forward to presenting more exciting exhibitions at our future address.

Light, as the origin of vision, brings along shadows and space. The various wavelengths of light constitute the spectrum and thus colour and reflection. If an artist can express light freely, there will be great sense of colour, light and shadow and spatial arrangement. In this exhibition, numerous Hong Kong artists apply their own twist on the theme “shining moment”.

An art gallery is a space where artworks are presented; at the same time, it can become the subject matter of the works, themselves. This summer, Rossi & Rossi will open up its Wong Chuk Hang gallery to artist Szelit Cheung (b. 1988), who will experiment with the interplay of display space and works of art for a residency that runs from 8 May to 31 July 2021.

We are honoured to invite Hong Kong contemporary artist Szelit Cheung, to be the artist of Highlight of the Month in January 2021, presenting his latest oil paintings - Shimmer.

The recent art creation of Szelit Cheung, is aware of different kinds of spaces, such as blank spaces or neglected corners, lead him to contemplate the fascinating imagination derived from space, and further think about the concept of "emptiness". For him, "emptiness" is not literally equal to emptiness or nothingness, but a transitional state between viewing "emptiness" and before generating any imagination and feeling. He often studies the relationship between space and the concept of emptiness, and meanwhile, he is also thinking about how space is remembered. We can understand more about how he considers another aspect of "emptiness" - the relationship between space and emptiness by appreciating his paintings.

XX sparks off an array of thoughts and interpretations, from Roman numerals signifying 20, to the idea of crossover, which brings together different disciplines, and the concept of variables, which germinates and gives rise to new hybrids and surprising outcomes.

Presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and curated by Hong Kong Art School, the exhibition is featuring works by 33 artists / units. All participating artists are dear friends of the School, they include alumni of the School, former and current academic staff members, as well as founding staff members of the School.

The works are deriving from and at the same time bridging four major artistic disciplines, namely Ceramics, Painting, Photography and Sculpture. The exhibition guides visitors through a visual journey which vividly depicts the artistic accomplishments of the School over the past two decades.

The exhibition showcases Cheung’s ingenuity on the theme of “void”. In Zen Buddhism, it is believed that all things come from Śūnyatā (emptiness or voidness). For Cheung, “void” is not a concept, but something that can be understood through experience. His work explores the relationship between space, chiaroscuro, and hues through a minimal setting, reflecting on the interactions between one's self and environment.

Contemporary art and architecture have become increasingly interconnected, terms such as "deconstructivism" and "abstractionism" link the two fields. In numerous recent projects throughout China such as MOCA Yinchuan, the Harbin Opera House, and the Ningbo Museum, we observe a mixture of the present and the past, the east and the west within the design of these new buildings, further redefining and blurring the line between fine art and design.

The show is curated by Eli Klein Gallery

The exhibition explores our food culture through examining the theory of Four States (cold, hot, warm and cool) and Five Flavours (spicy, sweet, bitter, sour and salty), inspired by the kaleidoscopic nature of Chinese herbal combinations. Based on these teachings, we have broken down our topic into three conditions: our dining experience (people), the touch and taste of food (emotions and senses), and the look of food (shape). Each artist or writer/author will engage in a multi-disciplinary dialogue to express their ideation of the Four States and Five Flavours. The nine sets of outcomes, whether in text or visuals, aspire to open up our daily experience with food.

Programme of Jockey Club "Passing the Past" Local Literature Education-for-All Programme - Hong Kong Literature Season: Mixed Flavors

The exhibition explores our food culture through examining the theory of Four States (cold, hot, warm and cool) and Five Flavours (spicy, sweet, bitter, sour and salty), inspired by the kaleidoscopic nature of Chinese herbal combinations. Based on these teachings, we have broken down our topic into three conditions: our dining experience (people), the touch and taste of food (emotions and senses), and the look of food (shape). Each artist or writer/author will engage in a multi-disciplinary dialogue to express their ideation of the Four States and Five Flavours. The nine sets of outcomes, whether in text or visuals, aspire to open up our daily experience with food.

Programme of Jockey Club "Passing the Past" Local Literature Education-for-All Programme - Hong Kong Literature Season: Mixed Flavors

Art in the contemporary world is no longer divided by geographical boundaries, yet, the significance of the ocean remains unaltered. More often, the ocean is not depicted as literal and specific but as an abstract symbol. The exhibition 16.52 Sqm Open Sea brings together the works of nineteen contemporary Asian artists, each bringing forth a fragment of the ocean, in order to complete a unified 'horizon line' within the gallery space. 

The show is curated by Xn Office, a curator group initated by art history researcher Xu Dan and artist Ni Youyu.

Co-presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network, the exhibition features the works of 29 practicing artists who are also the alumni of the Hong Kong Art School. Let's look at the artists' exquisite ways of seeing things and listen to the words deeply embedded in their works in the world dominated by noises and anxieties at this Christmas!

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