American artist Anwar.

Eric exhibited the world's first pharaoh statue "Gravity" at Pacific Place.

[Reporter Tu Yingru/Hong Kong Report, Photography] The highlight of Hong Kong Art Month in March this year, "Art Basel (Art Basel)", will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center from 23rd to 25th, and will open yesterday (21st) The press and VIP preview, as the first large-scale art exhibition in Hong Kong after the lifting of the epidemic prevention measures, showed the energy ready to go.

This year's exhibition brings together 134 top international art galleries to exhibit modern and contemporary art works from the 20th to 21st centuries, and 8 galleries from Taiwan also participated in the exhibition this year.

Andrew Art presents Fu Rao's solo exhibition "Night Banquet" in Basel Hong Kong.

The "Encounters" (Encounters), which is specially designed for large-scale art creations, returns for the first time after 2019. It is curated by the well-known curator Alexie Glass-Kantor and exhibits 14 large-scale installations, each of which is a "crowd crowd". Magnets”, one of which was extended outside the venue for the first time, by American artist Anwar.

"Gravity", created by Awol Erizku, is a 10-meter-high inflatable bust of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. The scale is quite spectacular, and people passing by Pacific Place stopped to take pictures.

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"Silent Loneliness" by Korean artist Kim Hong-seok.

Korean artist Kim Hong-seok's "Silent Loneliness" is also a hot spot for checking in. People wearing animal head coverings such as donkeys, dogs, raccoons, and mice sit or lie in different postures in the exhibition space. Many viewers are puzzled and ask: Is it a real person Is it in there?

In fact, it is a work made of composite materials such as resin, styrofoam, and fabric. There is a wooden board next to each "person", with short stories of these people written on it, including refugees who must hide their identities, and those who want to put their own A movie actor with his face hidden under a hood, a modern dancer who is performing the theme of "cheap sleep", and a cleaner who was reported and fired for drinking coffee near the building in uniform, each short story is short and interesting, It is intriguing to interpret the loneliness of modern people.

Picasso <Femme à la couronne de fleurs> 55x46 cm (1937).

In addition to large-scale installations, heavyweight masterpieces can also be seen in the exhibition hall. For example, Helly Nahmad Gallery, a London gallery that participated in Art Basel Hong Kong for the first time this year, presents Miró, Renoir, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, and Picard Masterpieces of 20th century masters such as Suo and Kandinsky.

Taiwan’s exhibiting galleries include Geng Gallery, TKG+, Prestige Art Center, Dafu Linshe Gallery, Android Art, Soka Art, Asia Art Center and Yiri Art Project, which participated for the first time.

Andrews Art is presenting Fu Rao's new works in the main exhibition area "Gallery Collection" where 129 top international art galleries are gathered. Works and ceramic sculptures; Zuncai Art Center brings together 10 Taiwanese artists from 1920s to 2023 to exhibit representative works, including senior painters such as Chen Chengbo, Chu Teh-Chun and Shiy De-Jin, as well as modern and contemporary artists such as Yuma.

Dalu, Xu Jiawei, Zhou Daikun, Zhang Shuoyin, etc.; Asia Art Center curated the double solo exhibition of Chuang Che and Dong Xiaohui with the concept of "Transition of Dimensions: Perspective of Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Art"; Geng Gallery took "Beyond and Between" as the theme Come to the works of Su Xiaobai, Sopheap Pich, Peng Wei and Su Menghong; TKG+ exhibits the works of Wu Gengzhen, Cai Jiawei, Kuang Zhenxi, Jane Lee (李玉玉), Qiu Chenghong.

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