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The large-scale immersive installation "Fireworks at Extreme Night" created by Chinese artist Yang Yongliang.
(Photographed by reporter Tu Yingru) [Reporter Tu Yingru/Report from Taipei] The 8th Art Central, held concurrently with Art Basel Hong Kong, opened at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on the 22nd, and will run from now until March 25, 2023 The venue will be open to the public on the first day of the exhibition. During the exhibition period, the works of the new generation of Asian artists and galleries will be displayed, gathering a total of 70 influential art galleries from all over the world.
It is located at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center with Art Basel. Although the exhibition area is small, it aims to nurture a new generation of Asian contemporary art. There are many works of today's bright young artists, including large-scale immersive installations created by well-known artist Yang Yongliang, a A series of specially commissioned performance art, and a group exhibition focusing on Hong Kong artists, "Green Throat: Start Stirring".
In addition, Art Central will also launch a variety of art education activities, including interactive guided tours and workshops, suitable for audiences of all ages.
Artist Yang Yongliang was born in Shanghai in 1980.
Currently working and living in New York and Shanghai, his works capture countless urban images, and through digital synthesis, reconstruction and innovation of Chinese landscape.
His works are collected by many important art museums and public institutions all over the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the British Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
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The large-scale immersive installation "Fireworks at Extreme Night" created by Chinese artist Yang Yongliang.
(Provided by Art Central) As soon as you walk into the exhibition area, you can see the highlight of this work. The 18-meter LED installation that you can see as soon as you enter the venue is "Extreme Night Fireworks" by the internationally renowned Chinese artist Yang Yongliang. Largest display ever.
Yang Yongliang studied traditional Chinese painting since he was a child. Using his own artistic foundation, he deconstructs and reorganizes urban images in the style of traditional landscape painting, leading the audience into the epitome of the development of modern civilization.
In "Extreme Night Fireworks", in a digital landscape, the momentary fireworks and dim night twilight across the magnificent sky of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, while everyone praises the progress of modern cities, reflects the hidden worry of light pollution.
The work urges the audience to reflect on the environmental impacts of urbanization, commercialization, and consumerism, and leads the audience to pause before stepping into the future and reflect on the past that is closely related to today.
Korean artist Park Sun-ki is good at using hanging devices to create the illusion of three-dimensional space. This is his large-scale installation work "Convergence-Space 2023" specially produced for Art Central this time.
(Photographed by reporter Tu Yingru)
Abstract soft sculptures by South African artist Bev Butkow.
(Photographed by reporter Tu Yingru)
Clara Wong〈Prelude in A minor Trauma〉, installation art, (2020–23) Square Street Gallery, photography by Kennevia Photography.
(courtesy of Art Central)
Art Central 2023 also exhibits "Drifting in Wonderland", presenting four large-scale sculptures and installations, curated by Chris Wan, the exhibition's 2023 curatorial consultant.
The work of Park Sun-ki, Huang Huiying, Huo Yun, and Bev Butkow inspires innovative, fleeting sensory experiences, and examines the fluid and elusive qualities of art, while breaking down the rigid structures of history, materiality, and emotion.
Through a rich and pleasing visual experience, "Spectacle" invites viewers to question how social values pushed to the surface by the collective subconscious under the influence of mass media have superseded our understanding of today's reality.
Chinese artist Zhou Chunya's work "Green Dog Series: Titi No.2" (2007).
(Photographed by reporter Tu Yingru)
The joint exhibition "Green Throat: Start Stirring" is a special exhibition jointly curated by Chris Wan, the curatorial consultant of this exhibition, and Jeremy Ip, the founder and curator of the independent art space Wure Area.
In the research on contemporary art and new media, 16 emerging and established artists from Hong Kong are highlighted, examining and reinterpreting the relationship between the individual and the collective, the self and the contemporary world through the artistic filter of the modern metropolis Hong Kong.
Artists participating in this group exhibition include Yingbo, Lu Yongtao, Wu Jiaru, Tang Jiaxin, Gao Heng, Zhu Songqi, Bibike Office, Luo Lili, Wang Shunyu, Ling Zhongyun, Wei Bangyu, Luo Yumei, Tan Minqing, Ouyang Yingji, He Ting , and He Zhaonan.
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DOUBLE Q GALLERY, a gallery in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, also exhibited at Art Central. The exhibition room is saturated in color, and the design is modern and fantasy, which is quite eye-catching.
(Photographed by reporter Tu Yingru)
Luo Yumei, "Autumn Sorrow on a Traveling Journey", 2022, video installation.
(Provided by Luo Yumei) In addition, Art Central welcomed 37 leading galleries in Hong Kong, including Contemporary by Angela Li and Square Street Gallery, and 60 influential galleries in Asia, such as 021 Gallery (Daegu) and K Space (Chengdu) , and 12 galleries from other parts of the world, including MARC STRAUS (New York), VETA by Fer Francés (Madrid), Guns & Rain (Johannesburg) and Art of the World (Houston).
Jon Koko <Public Bath> (2022), 42 x 365 cm.
(Provided by Jon Koko and ALZUETA GALLERY)
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