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PARA SITE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING AUCTION 2014
SHEUNG WAN
AUCTION CATALOGUE
MARCH 6,
2015 -
677 KING'S ROAD
NORTH POINT /Q UARRY BAY
Dear Friends of Para Site, After 18 years of serving Hong Kong from a tiny space in Sheung Wan, making our contribution to our city’s thriving art scene and nourishing a community of people from different walks of life, Para Site is ready to turn the page for a second chapter in its existence. Early next year, we will open in brand-new premises in North Point/Quarry Bay. The much larger and upgraded exhibition facilities will bring Para Site’s infrastructure in line with its programmes and reputation as a leading Hong Kong and Asian contemporary art centre operating in a global context. But this change has not come overnight and is the result of a tremendous amount of work and dedication in building Para Site over the years. This past year, in particular, has been a record-breaking one for us, with the biggest press coverage of our events, the largest number of visitors over the
year and of any single exhibition, as well as the greatest number of iterations for Para Site’s touring exhibitions. Groundbreaking projects such as
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong, Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s— Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, Golden Heights Estate, Islands off the Shores of Asia, and Eros, among others, attracted thousands of visitors and received widespread coverage both regionally and globally. Hong Kong was for three days the global epicentre for performance art and contemporary dance during our annual conference Is the Living
Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The exhibition Taiping Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters completed its international tour with a stop in New York earlier this year, while A Journal of the Plague
Year travelled to Taipei and Seoul and is getting ready for San Francisco in the spring of next year, at the same time as Great Crescent’s showcase at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
This year’s auction is crucial for Para Site’s transformation into the art centre this city deserves. The community that came together two decades ago to found Para Site—the community that has stood by it at every step of the way, in harder times as well as in the more auspicious years, the community that we are humbly serving with all our work—has in great solidarity answered our call for a joint effort to produce Para Site’s largest auction to date. This year’s selection comprises extraordinarily high-quality lots from a mix of some of the most promising emerging artists to some of the leading figures both in Hong Kong and on the world stage. We are extremely grateful to all the artists and galleries who have donated this fantastic range of works, as well as to our rapidly expanding family of Founding Friends, Friends, Associates and supporters who have generously helped us bring our dreams within reach. We also wish to thank the following
organisations for their contributions: Absolut, Altaya Wines, AXA Art Insurance, Helu-Trans and Paddle8 as well as the Para Site Board of Directors and staff for taking on this ambitious challenge—and to everyone who believes that Hong Kong deserves a contemporary art centre of an international calibre. Cosmin Costinas Executive Director and Curator Para Site
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TREVOR YEUNG 楊 沛 鏗
Cactus (13.5cm) 2014 Long-spine porcupine fish, sea sand, pot Unique 25 x 25 x 30 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 50,000 Generously donated by the artist
Trevor Yeung (b. 1988, China) lives and works in
Recent exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. He graduated from the Academy of
Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale
Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010.
and Ten Million Rooms of Yearning,
Yeung’s practice uses botanic ecology, horticulture, photography and installations as metaphors that reference the emancipation of everyday aspirations toward human relationships.
Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014; Trevor
Yeung’s Encyclopedia, Observation Society, Guangzhou, in 2013; Scalable
Strategies, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, seven gentlemen, HARDNECK.hk, Hong Kong, and the bedroom show, the artist’s bedroom, Hong Kong, in 2012.
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MAP OFFICE
Back Home with Baudelaire (No 4) 2011 Photograph Edition 2 of 6 + 1 AP, from a set of 8 60 x 110 cm Estimate: HK$ 80,000 - 120,000 Generously donated by the artists and Shanghai Gallery of Art
MAP Office is a multidisciplinary platform devised
Past exhibitions and project include The
by Laurent Gutierrez (b. 1966, Morocco) and ValĂŠrie
Part in the Story, Witte de With, Rotterdam,
Portefaix (b. 1969, France). This duo of artists/architects
in 2014; The Oven of Straw, Ullens Center
has been based in Hong Kong since 1996, working on physical and imaginary territories using varied means of expression including drawing, photography, video, installation, performance, and literary and theoretical texts. Their entire project forms a critique of spatiotemporal anomalies and documents how human beings subvert and appropriate space. Humour, games, and
of Contemporary Art, Beijing, Tracking
Baudelaire, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, and Bi-City Hong Kong/Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, Hong Kong, in 2013;
Atlas of Asia Art Archive, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, in 2012; Runscape, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, The Chinese Box, Fondazione VOLUME!, Rome, Quotidian
fiction are also part of their approach, in the form of small
Architectures, Hong Kong Pavilion, and
publications providing a further format for disseminating
the 12th Venice Biennale International
their work. MAP Office was the recipient of the 2013
Architecture Exhibition, all in 2010.
edition of The Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
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FROG KING KWOK 蛙 王 郭 孟 浩
Live Action 2014 Ink on rice paper and mixed media collage on hand-made linen paper Unique 173 x 124 cm Estimate: HK$ 140,000 - 180,000 Courtesy of the artist and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery
Frog King Kwok (b. 1947, China) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. Frog King has been a pioneer of conceptual
Frog King: Totem, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery,
art in Hong Kong. He was virtually a lone figure in
in 2014; travelling exhibition Taiping
the late 1960s and throughout the 1980s, employing a wide range of media and forms of expression to challenge the highly conservative Hong Kong art scene of the time. Moments such as the 1974 exhibition he organized in Yuen Long (believed to be the first conceptual art exhibition in the territory) and the display of rotten eggs he presented at the inaugural exhibition of the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1977 caused public scandals and have remained in local memory. However, Frog King’s legendary status rose from his 1979 performances at Tian’anmen Square and the Great Wall, using strings and plastic
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bags, which is related to his fascination with the five traditional Chinese elements. This is believed to be the first example of performance art in China.
Tianguo, a History of Possible Encounters, Para Site, Hong Kong; SALT, Istanbul, NUS Museum, Singapore, and E-flux, 2013 2014; the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, where he represented Hong Kong; and the Third Architectural Biennial, Beijing, in 2008.
CAI GUO-QIANG 蔡 國 強
Red Fuse No. 5 2014 Gunpowder and gunpowder fuse on paper Unique 40.6 x 30.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 90,000 - 120,000 Generously donated by the artist Photo by Lydia Ohl, courtesy Cai Studio
Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, China) lives and works in New
Past exhibitions and projects include Cai
York. He was trained in stage design at the Shanghai
Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave, Power Station
Theater Academy, and his work has since crossed
of Art, Shanghai, Cai Guo-Qiang: Moving
multiple mediums within art, including drawing, installation, video and performance. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to the development of his signature explosion events. Cai was awarded the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, and the 20th Fukuoka Asian
Ghost Town, Aspen Art Museum, Colarado, in 2014; Falling Back to Earth, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia, in 2013; Cai Guo-Qiang: Da Vincis do Povo, travelling exhibition in Brasilia, São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, in 2013; I Want to Believe, Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2008;
Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent
Culture Prize in 2009, and the Praemium Imperiale in
Monument, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2012. Additionally, he was also among the five artists
New York, in 2006.
honored with the first U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts award. He also served as Director of Visual and Special Effects for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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LIU XIAODONG 劉 小 東
Green Pub 5 2013 Acrylic on C-print Unique 47.3 x 58.5 x 5 cm Estimate: HK$ 120,000 - 150,000 Generously donated by the artist and Lisson Gallery
Liu Xiaodong (b. 1963, China) lives and works in Beijing.
Past exhibitions and projects include
He has a BFA and an MFA in painting from the Central
Childhood Friends Getting Fat – Moving
Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (1988, 1995), where he
Image of Liu Xiaodong, Minsheng
now holds tenure as professor. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, the Complutense University of Madrid (1998–99). A leading figure among the Chinese Neo-Realist painters to emerge in the 1990s, Liu’s work locates the human dimension in global issues such as population displacement, environmental crisis and economic upheaval, with the determination ‘to see
Seattle Art Museum, in 2013;
The Process of Painting, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, in 2012; the 8th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, and Hometown Boy, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, in 2010; the 15th Biennale of Sydney, in 2006; Shanghai Biennale,
the globe in places as diverse as Tibet, Japan, Italy, the
in 2000; the 47th Venice Biennale, in
UK, Cuba, Austria and Korea, as well as closer to home,
1997.
China.
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Biennale, Korea, in 2014; Hometown Boy,
people as they really are’. His projects have spanned
in Jincheng, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning,
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PETER STEINHAUER 彼 得 • 斯 坦 豪 爾
Pasar Joar #1, Semarang, Indonesia – 2013 2013 Photograph, sound app Edition of 8 170 x 140 cm Estimate: HK$ 70,000 - 100,000 Generously donated by the artist and Contemporary by Angela Li
Peter Steinhauer (b. 1966, USA) has been living and
Past exhibitions and projects include
working as a professional photographer in Asia for the
Peter Steinhauer: Asian Markets, Corden |
past 20 years. His practice focuses on architecture
Potts Gallery, San Francisco, in 2014; Asian
within urban and natural landscapes, Asian faces and man-made structures. Steinhauer published his first monograph, Vietnam: Portraits and Landscapes, in 2007. He was awarded a PDN Photo Annual Award in 2012 and was a finalist for The Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2008.
Markets, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, in 2013; Metamorphosis, New Cocoon
works by Peter Steinhauer, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, in 2012; Cocoons, Plum blssom Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2011; Reflecting Vietnam I, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, in 2007.
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MING WONG 黃 漢 明
Solaris Diary 1 and 2 2014 Archival photographic print Edition 1 of 7 + 2 AP 77 x 77 cm each Estimate: HK$ 60,000 – 90,000 Generously donated by the artist
Ming Wong (b. 1971, Singapore) lives and works in
Performa, Performa 11 at the Museum
Berlin, Germany. He studied Chinese Art at the Nanyang
of the Moving Image, New York, Life of
Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, and Fine Art Media
Imitation, Hara Museum of Contemporary
at the Slade School of Art, University College London. Wong’s artwork assembles language and identity and creates its own ‘World Cinema’. Recent and past exhibitions and projects include Islands
Off the Shores of Asia, Para Site and Spring Workshop, Give Us the Future, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Biennial of Contemporary Art Cartagena de Indias, Columbia, in 2014;
Travaux domestiques, Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Me in Me, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story, Para Site, Hong Kong, 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, in 2013; Kann es Liebe sein?, Künstlerhaus Wien,
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Austria, I should be like you, Carlier/Gebauer, Berlin, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, Ming Wong: Making
Chinatown, REDCAT, Los Angeles, in 2012; Persona
Art, Tokyo, Ming Wong’s CYCLORAMA, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, in 2011. Wong was awarded Special Mention for his presentation at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.
HOU CHUN-MING 侯 俊 明
Sin and Punishment in Hong Kong 1996 Cotton paper, ink Edition 6 of 30 124 x 243 cm each Estimate: HK$ 100,000 - 180,000 (framing cost shall be assessed) Generously donated by the artist
Hou Chun-Ming (b. 1963, Taiwan) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include Ten
Taiwan. He graduated from the National Art Academy
Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong
(now Taipei National University of the Arts) in Taiwan
Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014; the
in 1987. In the 1990s, Hou engaged in art creation with installations and prints and his artworks have been known for being taboo-challenging, highly ritualistic and being associated with the contemporary political environment and social phenomena in Taiwan.
55th Venice Biennale, and Rolling: Visual
Art in Taiwan, Seoul Museum of Art, in 2013; Mandala of Love, Ai Kowada Gallery, Tokyo, in 2010; Always (as it was), Tang Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, in 2009; The Contemporary Landscape, MOCA, Taipei, in 2006; Inside Out: New
Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York, in 1998; the 46th Venice Biennale, in 1995.
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ADRIAN WONG 黃 浩 然
Hypnagogia XVIII (Hair, Nails, Hair & Nails) 2014 Acrylic, corian, vinyl, fluorescent tubes, magnetic drive motors Unique 71 x 93 x 18 cm Estimate: HK$ 80,000 - 100,000 Generously donated by the artist
Adrian Wong (b. 1980, USA) lives and works in Hong
Past exhibitions and projects include A
Kong and Los Angeles, USA. He graduated with a
Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts,
Master’s degree in research psychology from Stanford
rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong
University, California, and an MFA from Yale University, Connecticut, USA. Relying heavily on a researchbased methodology, Wong’s installations, videos, and sculptures draw from varied subjects and explore the intricacies of his relationship to his environment (experientially, historically, culturally, and through the filter of fantastical or fictionalized narratives). These
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Kong story, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2013; Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary
Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, and Rodentia in
Absentia, Saamlung, Hong Kong, in 2012; Troglodyte See the Light, ltd, Los Angeles, and Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, in
organic and open-ended artefacts of his process often
2011; Ursual Bickle Archiv Programme,
involve a collaborative engagement with subjects.
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, in 2010.
ANTONY GORMLEY
PRECIPITATE 2011 Carbon, casein and linseed oil on paper Unique 75.7 x 56 cm Estimate: HK$ 125,000 - 200,000 Generously donated by the artist
Antony Gormley (b. 1950, United Kingdom) studied
Awarded the Turner Prize in 1994,
at St Martin’s School of Art and Goldsmiths College
Gormley was made an Officer of the
in London from 1974 and graduated from the Slade
British Empire in 1997. Since 2003,
School of Fine Art, University College in, 1979. He has
he has been a member of the Royal
had a number of solo shows at venues such as Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Deichtorhallen Hamburg;
Academy of Arts and since 2007, a Trustee of the British Museum.
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Hayward Gallery, London; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; MalmĂś Konsthall; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen. Gormley has also participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and dOCUMENTA 8 in Kassel, Germany.
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OLAFUR ELIASSON
Parabolic Light 2011 Stainless steel, concave mirror, candle Edition 23 of 24 + 2 AP 36 x 32 x 32 cm Estimate: HK$ 150,000 - 200,000 Generously donated by the artist, neugerriemschneider and Vitamin Creative Space
Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Denmark) is a Danish-Icelandic
Established in 1995, his Berlin studio
artist. His works span from installation and sculpture
today collaborates with numerous
to photography and film, and have been exhibited
craftsmen, architects, scientists and
worldwide in institutions such as MoMA, Tate Modern, and the Venice Biennale. Eliasson’s projects in public space include Green river, realised in various cities between 1998 and 2001; The New York City Waterfalls, 2008; and the façades for Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, with Henning Larsen Architects, 2005–2011. Most recently, Eliasson’s solo exhibition Riverbed opened at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, and the artist presented at Tate Britain, London, a series of paintings that respond to the work of JMW Turner.
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art historians. In April 2009, as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Eliasson founded the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments), a five-year educational project. Since 2012, he has directed together with Frederik Ottesen the social business Little Sun, which produces solar lamps for use in off-grid communities.
ZHAO RENHUI 趙 仁 輝
Elephant That Has No Tusk (from the series A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World) 2013 Archival pigment print Edition 1 of 5 + 1 AP 121 x 84 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 60,000 Generously donated by the artist
Zhao Renhui (b. 1983, Singapore) lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects include
in Singapore. Zhao received his BA and MA in
Unearthed, Singapore Art Museum,
Photography from Camberwell College of Arts and the
Singapore, 4th Moscow International
London College of Communication, both University of the Arts London, United Kingdom, respectively. His practice investigates the different modes of the human zoological gaze, i.e., how people view animals. Zhao’s work is based on the concept of doubt and uncertainty, and in his works, he tests to the limit the principles behind the dissemination of knowledge
Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, The Last
Thing You See, 2902 Gallery, Singapore, in 2014; If the world changed, Singapore Biennale, Singapore, Photoquai 4, Musée de Branly, Paris, in 2013; The
Institute of Critical Zoologists, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, in 2012; The Land
Archive, Institute of Contemporary Arts,
and acceptance of truths. A large part of his practice
Singapore, in 2011; The Whiteness of
tries to resist the false naturalisation of beliefs and
Whales, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,
circumstances. His work has also been awarded the
Fukuoka, in 2010.
Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2011) by the University of the Arts London. In 2010, he was awarded the Young Artist Award by Singapore’s National Arts Council.
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KWAN SHEUNG CHI 關 尚 智
Blood 2014 Artist blood in glass vial, refrigerator Unique 44 x 35 x 27 cm Estimate: HK$ 80,000 – 120,000 Generously donated by the artist
Kwan Sheung Chi (b. 1980, Hong Kong) received
In 2009, he was awarded the Starr
a Third Class Honours degree in Fine Art from The
Foundation Fellowship from the Asian
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2003 and
Cultural Council and was the winner of
failed to qualify for the Master of Fine Art programme at CUHK in 2004 and 2007. Kwan was a founding member of the local arts groups Hong Kong Art Discovery Channel (HKADC), hk-PARTg (Political Art Group) and Woofer Ten.
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the inaugural Hugo Boss Asia Art Award in 2013. Kwan’s artworks have not been widely exhibited around the world, and he has never participated in any major exhibitions held internationally.
ZHANG WEI 張 偉
AE7 1986 Watercolor on paper Unique 53 x 53 cm Estimate: HK$ 120,000 - 180,000 Generously donated by the artist and Boers-Li Gallery
Zhang Wei (b. 1952, China) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Beijing, China. He was a member of the group of
Breaking Away — An Abstract Art
eleven artists that held the first underground art
Exhibition, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, in
exhibition during the Cultural Revolution in 1975. Keeping away from political art, Zhang was one of the youngest artists of the No Name Group — one of the earliest artist groups to have emerged in China
2011; Art and China’s Revolution, Asia Society Museum, New York, in 2008;
Serendipity, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, in 2007.
in the last 30 years.
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TAKASHI MURAKAMI 村 上 隆
Dumb Compass 2009 Silkscreen with gold leaf on paper Edition 6 of 30 95.9 x 77.5 cm Estimate: 50,000 - 80,000HKD Generously donated by Gagosian Gallery ©Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Right Reserved.
Takashi Murakami (b. 1962, Japan), lives and works
Major solo exhibitions include Museum of
in Tokyo, Japan. He received his BFA, MFA and PhD
Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2001); Museum
from the Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly the
of Fine Arts, Boston (2001); Fondation
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music).
Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
He founded the Hiropon factory in Tokyo in 1996,
(2002); Serpentine Gallery, London (2002);
which later evolved into Kaikai Kiki, an art production and art management corporation. In addition to the production and marketing of Murakami’s art and related work, Kaikai Kiki functions as a supportive environment for the fostering of emerging artists. Murakami is also a curator, a cultural entrepreneur, and a critical observer of contemporary Japanese society. In 2000, he organized a paradigmatic exhibition of Japanese art titled Superflat, which traced the origins of contemporary Japanese visual pop culture in historical Japanese art. He has continued this work in subsequent impactful exhibitions such as Coloriage (Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2002) and Little Boy: The Art of Japan’s Exploding
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Subcultures (Japan Society, New York, 2005). In 2011, he organized the ‘New Day: Artists for Japan’ international charity auction at Christie’s New York in response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
and Château de Versailles, France (2010). The comprehensive survey exhibition ©MURAKAMI opened at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2007 and travelled to Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao during 2008 – 09. Murakami-Ego, whose centrepiece was an astonishing 100-metre-long painting inspired by the Tōhoku earthquake, took place in 2012 at the Al Riwaq Hall in Doha, Qatar. Takashi
Murakami: Arhat Cycle was presented at Palazzo Reale, Milan, in 2014
LARRY BELL
SF 1.7.12 2012 Vapour-coated mixed-media collage on canvas backed paper Unique 83.7 x 63.7 x 5 cm Estimate: HK$ 140,000 - 180,000 Generously donated by the artist and White Cube ©Larry Bell
Larry Bell (b. 1939, USA) lives and works between Los
Recent exhibitions and projects include
Angeles and Taos, New Mexico. Since the start of his
Light and Red, White Cube Hong Kong,
career in 1959, Bell has made investigations into the
in 2014; Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA
properties of light on surface. By experimenting with the nature of surface and its relationship to space, Bell has devised a methodology characterised by spontaneity, intuition and improvisation.
1945–80, Getty Center, Los Angeles, in 2012 and Larry Bell: In Perspective, Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, in 2011. Larry Bell is one of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cutouts.
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TALA MADANI
Inside Projection 2014 Oil on linen Unique 36 x 40.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 100,000 - 150,000 Generously donated by the artist and Pilar Corrias
Tala Madani (b. 1981, Iran) lives and works in Los
Recent and past exhibitions and projects
Angeles, USA. After receiving her MFA from Yale
include The Great Acceleration: Art in the
University School of Art in 2006, Madani made her solo debut in 2007. Her work is characterised by loose expressive brushwork rendered in a bold, distinctive palette. Rich in narrative and heavy in irony, Madani’s
Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Where Are We Now?, 5th Marrakech Biennale, Morocco, Tala
Madani, Nottingham Contemporary, UK,
paintings depict darkly comic mise-en-scènes.
in 2014; Tala Madani: Rip Image, Moderna
Products of curiosity, fantasy, and desire, Madani’s
Museet, Malmö and Stockholm, Sweden,
paintings provoke a cacophony of interpretation
Made in Space, Gavin Brown Enterprise,
that exceeds mere commentary. As such they exist as ‘vignettes for experimentation’, as powerful meditations on the tension between the stereotypical and the iconic.
New York, Future Generation Prize, Pinchuk Art Prize, Venice, in 2013;
Speech Matters, Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Open House, Singapore Biennale, Singapore, and Tala
Madani: The Jinn, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, in 2011; Greater
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New York, MoMA P.S. 1, New York, and The Future of Tradition, The Tradition of Future, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, in 2010.
NICK MAUSS
Conversion 2011 Ink and colored pencil on paper Unique 65.7 x 48.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 65,000 - 80,000 Generously donated by the artist and 303 Gallery Š Nick Mauss courtesy 303 Gallery, New York
Nick Mauss (b. 1980, USA) lives and works in New York,
Past exhibitions and projects include By,
USA. Having graduated from The Cooper Union for the
With, To & From, Fiorruci Art Trust, London,
Advancement of Science and Art, New York, in 2013,
in 2013; Pride Comes Before a Fall, Artists
he has been showing internationally for a decade. He consistently treats drawing not as a class of objects or an activity but as an attitude toward pictorial
Space, New York, in 2013; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 2012.
information that prefers implication to statement, confusion to clarity, the inconclusive to the definitive.
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HUANG RAN 黄 然
Suppression Sets the Repressed Desires Free No. 6 2011 Inkjet print, metallic ink on paper Edition 2 of 5 65 x 45 cm each Estimate: HK$ 40,000 – 60,000 Generously donated by the artist and Simon Lee Gallery
Huang Ran (b. 1982, China) lives and works in
Upcoming and past exhibitions include
Beijing. In 2004, he graduated from Birmingham
Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale, and
Institute of Art and Design with a First Class BA (Hons)
Ran Huang: An Experience Shaped by an
Fine Art degree. Huang obtained his MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2008. Critically interested in perception, Huang often incorporates juxtaposition and paradox into his works in ways that are both visually and conceptually driven. Huang was selected for the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 67th Festival de Cannes in 2014.
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Experience I Never Experienced, Simon Lee Gallery, London, in 2014; Disruptive Desires,
Tranquility and the Loss of Lucidity, Long March Space, Beijing, in 2011.
LEE KIT 李 傑
Leave Me Alone 2014 Acrylic, emulsion paint, inkjet ink and correction ink on cardboard Unique 32 x 41 cm Estimate: HK$ 90,000 - 120,000 Generously donated by the artist and Vitamin Creative Space
Lee Kit (b. 1978, Hong Kong) lives and works in Taiwan.
Past exhibitions and projects include
He graduated with an MFA from the Department of
Lee Kit, Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin,
Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
in 2014; travelling exhibition A Journal
in 2006. His practice often derives inspiration from the everyday domestic situation as a form of social commentary.
of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story, Para Site, Hong Kong, and You (you)., Hong Kong Pavilion, the 55th Venice Biennale, in 2013-14; It’s Not an Easy
Thing, Arrow Factory, Beijing, in 2012, and 1,2,3,4…, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, in 2011.
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LAWRENCE WEINER
MAYDAY 2013 Faber-castell pencil, gouache, acrylic, ink on folded archival paper Unique 84 x 104 cm Estimate: HK$ 250,000 - 350,000 Generously donated by the artist
Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942, USA) lives and works in New
Past exhibitions and projects include
York and Amsterdam. Weiner was one of the key figures
solo presentations at the Museu d’Art
in Conceptual Art and rose to prominence in the 1960s.
Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, in
His works often revolve around typographical texts. Among his many honors are the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1976 and 1983, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.
2013; Jewish Museum, New York, in 2012; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, in 2000; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in 1995; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1994; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in 1990. He has participated in numerous dOCUMENTA exhibitions, in 1972, 1977, 1982, and 2012; the Venice Biennale, in 1972, 1984, 2003, and 2013; as well as the Bienal de SĂŁo Paulo, in 2006.
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AI WEIWEI 艾 未 未
Hanger 2013 Stainless steel Edition N/A 48 x 22 x 0.9 cm Estimate: HK$ 300,000 - 400,000 Generously donated by the artist
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957, China) lives and works in Beijing,
Ai continues to develop projects
China. A member of the Xingxing (Stars) group, Ai
and showcase his works on the
has emerged as one of the most prominent figures
international stage.
in contemporary Chinese art and architecture and as a globally renowned cultural and political icon. In collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, Ai designed the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion in London, United Kingdom. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai uses a wide range of mediums as expressions to set up new possibilities and conditions for his audience to question and confront the society and its values. An outspoken advocate of human rights and freedom of speech, his actions led him to frequent run-ins with the authorities and eventually a secret
Past exhibitions include Ai Weiwei:
According to What?, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Ai Weiwei: Evidence, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, and Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, London, all in 2014; Taiping
Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters, Para Site, Hong Kong, and Ai Weiwei:
According to What?, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., in 2012; Ai Weiwei: Absent, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Ai Weiwei, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, in 2011;The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei, Tate
detention of 81 days from April 3, 2011 to June 22, 2011.
Modern, London, in 2010; So sorry, Haus der
His passport remains held by the government to this
Kunst, Munich, in 2009; dOCUMENTA 12,
day. Despite his travel restrictions,
Kassel, Germany, in 2007.
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NADIM ABBAS 唐 納 天
2012 JA, 2012 JB, 2012 JC, 2012 JD, P/120503-001 2012 Archival pigment prints (set of 4) Edition 1 of 3 + 2 AP, 33 x 33 cm (2012 JA/JB/JC/JD), 54 x 135 cm (P/120503-001) Estimate: HK$ 50,000 - 70,000 Generously donated by the artist
Nadim Abbas (b. 1980, Hong Kong) lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects include
in Hong Kong. Abbas studied sculpture (B.A.) at the
Apocalypse Postponed at Art Basel
Chelsea College of Art and comparative literature (M.Phil.) at the University of Hong Kong. He currently holds teaching posts at the Hong Kong Art School and City University of Hong Kong. His work explores technologies of perception, culminating in the construction of complex set pieces where objects exist in an ambiguous relationship with their own image, and bodies succumb to the seduction of space.
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Hong Kong, in 2014; Satellite of ⁂, CL3 Architects, Hong Kong, Tetraphilia, Hermès, Singapore, and Moderations(s):
A Fictional Residency, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, in 2013; Cataract, EXPERIMENTA, Hong Kong, in 2010; Fax, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2009.
HERNAN BAS
The Dragon’s Eyes 2013 Digital print on fine art cotton paper Edition 11 of 300, artist signed and numbered at the right bottom corner 70 x 50 cm Estimate: HK$ 4,000 - 6,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galerie Perrotin
Hernan Bas (b. 1978, USA) is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Past exhibition and projects include The
Bas graduated from the New World School of the Arts
Collectors, Nordic and Danish Pavilions,
in Miami in 1996. Bas’s dreamy, imaginary paintings
53rd Venice Biennale, in 2009; Triumph of
with expressive and bold brushwork have attracted worldwide attention. His delicate, androgynous subjects experience a range of passions. His works are darkly playful and melancholic, and the artist often employs references to literature, from Moby Dick
Painting: Part III, Saatchi Gallery, London, and Ideal Worlds – New Romanticism
in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, in 2005; the Whitney Biennale, in 2004.
to French Romantic writing, reimagining the texts through the figures of the young dandies. He often employs Gothic themes, combinations of romance and horror that are wrought with a sexual tension that conveys quiet emotion as opposed to hyper-eroticism.
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HERNAN BAS
Wash Up (Cave of Enlightenment) 2013 Digital print on fine art 100% cotton paper Edition 17 of 300, artist signed and numbered at the right bottom corner 50 x 70 cm Estimate: HK$ 4,000 - 6,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galerie Perrotin
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ASLI ÇAVUŞOĞLU
A Small Mix-up 2011 C-Print Edition 4 of 5 20 × 25 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 40,000 Generously donated by the artist
Aslı Çavuşoğlu (b. 1982, Istanbul) lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects include The
in Istanbul. Her projects examine the ways in
Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With
which cultural and historical facts are transformed,
Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam,
represented, and interpreted by individuals. Working across various media, Çavuşoğlu often assumes the role of an interpreter, writer or facilitator in her projects in order to highlight the precarious and subjective
in 2014; The Stones Talk, ARTER, Istanbul,
Murder in Three Acts, Delfina Foundation, London, and Signs Taken in Wonder, MAK Museum, Vienna, in 2013.
nature of our shared histories.
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CASPER CHAN 陳 曉 筠
Sure We Are Okay 2014 Charcoal, tea, acrylic on paper Unique 108 x 77.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist and Amelia Johnson Contemporary
Casper Chan Hiu Kwan (b. 1984, Hong Kong) lives and
figures are the manifestation of her
works in Hong Kong. She graduated with a degree in
inner feelings that reflect tension,
Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in
insecurity, irony and a sense of
2006 and currently working as a part-time lecturer at
romanticism. These sentiments
the Hong Kong Arts School for the Higher Diploma in
are personal reflection of life and
Fine Art programme. Using charcoal, ink, watercolour,
experiences and the artist chooses
coffee and tea, Chan creates larger than life portraits
to put them upfront to challenge our
on wood.
own sensitivity.
Figure paintings play a central role in contemporary
Past exhibitions include To Please, Grotto
composition. In Casper Chan’s interpretation, they
Fine Art, Hong Kong, in 2010, and Homee,
dwarf the audience with life-size scale, imposing
Edge Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2008.
gesture and severe symbolic implications. The artist uses charcoal, her primary medium, to produce a heavy dark hue that strikes a strong visual contrast. Body
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contours were done in white acrylic paint while tea was used on the background to create tonal variation and transparency. Portrayed in compromising positions and compounded with their facial expression, Chan’s
MAX CHAN 陳 泓
Equivocation 1 2014 C-Print Edition 1 of 8 + 2 AP 100 x 116.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 20,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery
Max Chan Wang (b. 1991, Hong Kong) graduated
Chan’s practice deals with the
from the School of Creative Media, City University of
relationship between the city and its
Hong Kong, with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media
inhabitants through the study of spaces,
(BACM). His photographic project ‘Unfolded’ was awarded the Hong Kong Contemporary Award 2012 and was exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2013.
architecture, experiences, patterns and perspectives. In 2014, he was invited to exhibit his latest photographic project at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery as part of the gallery’s annual exhibition HKFOREWORD which and supports talented fresh graduates from the local universities art programs. In parallel to his art practice, Chan works as a commercial photographer and designer and continues to explore various media.
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HALLEY CHENG 鄭 哈 雷
Moral Decency 2010 Tile adhesive on wood Edition 1 of 10 122 x 80 cm Estimate: HK$ 25,000 - 45,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galerie Ora-Ora
Halley Cheng (b. 1986) lives and works in Hong Kong.
Past exhibitions and projects include
Halley Cheng received his BFA from the Chinese
Game Theory, Grotto Fine Arts, Hong
University of Hong Kong in 2008, and four years later
Kong, in 2011; Cerulean, Galerie Ora-Ora,
obtained his Master’s degree in Visual Arts, Studio and Extended Media at the Hong Kong Baptist University. With his artistic sensibility, he uncovers the unusual from the ordinary, and so in addition to visual or conceptual intrigues, his works often have a sense of familiarity and sincerity which is accessible to most people.
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Hong Kong, in 2010; Urban Spirituality:
Contemporary Hong Kong Art, Rossi & Rossi, London, in 2009; Ghostlines, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, in 2008.
HEMAN CHONG 張 奕 滿
Things That Remain Unwritten #13-B 2013 Acrylic on canvas Unique 46 x 61 x 3.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 50,000 - 70,000 Generously donated by the artist and FOST Gallery
Heman Chong (b. 1977, Malaysia) lives and works
Past exhibitions and project include the
in Singapore. He is an artist, curator and writer
10th Gwangju Biennale, Korea, in 2014;
whose conceptually charged investigations into
the Asia Pacific Triennial 7, Brisbane,
how individuals and communities imagine the future generates a multiplicity of objects, images, installations, situations and texts. Between 2012-2014, he produced Moderation(s), a programme between Witte de With Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Spring Workshop in Hong Kong that involved more than fifty artists and engendered a conference, three
Australia, in 2012; Performa 11, New York, and Momentum 6, Moss, Norway, in 2011; Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, in 2010; the 2nd Singapore Biennale, Singapore, in 2008; SCAPE Christchurch Biennale, New Zealand, in 2006; the Busan Biennale, Korea, in 2004; the 10th India Triennale, New Delhi, in 2000. He also represented
exhibitions, three residencies, and a book of short
Singapore in the 50th Venice Biennale
stories.
in 2003.
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MOTOYUKI DAIFU 題 府 基 之
Bath 2011 C-print Edition 1 of 10 50.8 x 61 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 - 20,000 Generously donated by the artist and Lombard Freid Gallery
Motoyuki Daifu (b. 1985, Japan) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Tokyo, Japan. Influenced by Juergen Teller, Daifu
My Family Is a Pubis. So I cover with
captures the mundane, decidedly un-sexual realities of
Pretty Panties, Little Big Man Gallery,
home, family and relationships with a light touch. This can be seen running through his series My Family Is a
Pubis. So I cover it with Pretty Panties in 2009 where he invites viewers into the cramped, messy apartment he shares with his parents and siblings through casual photographs.
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Los Angeles, in 2014; Lovesody, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, in 2012; and #7
[untitled/image], Cultivate Gallery, Tokyo, in 2010.
JEREMY EVERETT
Color Pump 2014 C-Print Edition 1 of 2 + 1 AP 28 x 35.5 cm each Estimate: HK$ 40,000 - 60,000 Generously donated by the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery
Jeremy Everett (b. 1979, USA) lives and works in New
creation; neither never fully created
York and Paris. His practice involves an evanescent
nor complete, its significance is in its
yet highly charged poetics, where each work exists
evolving state between beauty and
as a lyrical exposé which is released into the world
decay.
with precise abandon—the visual confrontation of a new world that exists within yet beyond our own. With an initial degree in Landscape Architecture, Everett traversed into the art of making—or making of art—by subsequently completing an MFA at the University of Toronto.
Past exhibitions and projects include
No Exit, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2014; Sneakerotics, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, and Sort
Off, ltd., Los Angeles, in 2013; Buried Sky, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, in 2012.
A Colorado native, Everett was exposed in his early formative years to the pulsating yet contemplative raw existence elicited by bare earth. Citing inspirations from Land Art masters such as Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer, Everett’s work stems from a centre of intuition and subtly evolves beyond process and
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BERNARD FRIZE
NÊoci 2013 Digital print on fine art cotton paper Edition 31 of 300, artist signed and numbered on the right bottom corner  70 x 50 cm Estimate: HK$ 4,000 - 6,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galerie Perrotin
Bernard Frize (b. 1954, France) lives and works in Paris
Past exhibitions and projects include
and Berlin. He is a painter who works in a variety of
Hello, My Name is Bernard Frize, Galerie
materials and utilises a multitude of techniques. As
Perrotin, Paris, and Elementare Malerei,
an artist he explores the bare minimal essence of painting, devoid of conception and aesthetic, instead focusing on an industrial approach to making art. His work is highly process-oriented, often requiring unconventional tools, materials, and the assistance of others to complete a painting.
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Kunst Museum, St Gallen, in 2014; Within/
Beyond Borders, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, in 2011 and Entdecken
und Besitzen, MUMOK, Vienna, in 2005.
BERNARD FRIZE
Extension 2 2013 Digital print on fine art cotton paper Edition 22 of 300, artist signed and numbered on the right bottom corner 70 x 50 cm Estimate: HK$ 4,000 - 6,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galerie Perrotin
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MINORU HIRATA 平 田 実
Zero Dimension’s Filming of White Hare of Inaba, at Sebastian, Tokyo, June 7, 1970 1970 / 2012 Gelatin silver print Edition 1 of 10 35.7 x 27.8 cm Estimate: HK$ 20,000 - 40,000 Generously donated by the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery
Minoru Hirata (b. 1930, Japan) worked as a freelance
Past exhibitions and projects include Fly,
photojournalist and has documented the avant-garde
Icaros, Fly, Nikon Salon, in 1975; Okinawa
activities of such important artists in 1960s as Yoko
Era 1968-1974: Before the Return, After
Ono, Genpei Akasegawa, Ushio Shinohara, Hi Red Center, and Zero Dimension. He is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society, the Japan Photographic Copyright association and the APG – Japan.
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the Return, Before the Ocean Expo, Konica Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, in 2000, as well as Tokyo 1955–1970, MOMA, New York, in 2008.
HO SIU NAM, SOUTH 何 兆 南
Every Daily 7 2013 Watercolour on archival inkjet print Unique 54 x 61 cm Estimate: HK$ 25,000 - 45,000 Generously donated by the artist and Blindspot Gallery
Ho Siu Nam, South (b. 1984, Hong Kong) lives and
Past exhibitions and projects include
works in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Hong Kong
Every Daily, Blindspot Gallery, Hong
Polytechnic University in 2006. In 2013, he co-founded
Kong, in 2013; About Us, About Life and
100 ft. PARK, a non-commercial art space dedicated to providing an open platform for exhibiting and sharing art.
About the City, AO Vertical Art Space, Hong Kong, in 2012; Into Light, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong. Ho was awarded the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009. He was selected as finalist of The Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2011 and as nominee for the Société Générale Chinese Art Awards 2010.
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HON CHI FUN 韓 志 勳
Mountainly Yours 1968 Serigraph, hand-printed Unique 14.5 X 15.4 cm Estimate: HK$ 18,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist
Hon Chi Fun (b. 1922, Hong Kong) is part of the first
Past exhibitions nad projects include
generation of Hong Kong Modernist artists. He started
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in
to paint in 1960 and produced his first edition of
Hong Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014;
serigraphic prints in 1965. Hon is a member of the Modern Literature and Art Association (1958-64) and in 1963, became a leading member of the influential Circle Art Group (1964-71), which included Van Lau, Cheung Yee, Kam Ka-lun and David Lam among others. Hon became the first Hong Konger to be awarded a John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund Fellowship by John D. Rockefeller 3rd Foundation — the predecessor organization of the Asian Cultural Council in 1968. In 2013, Hon received the Medal of Honour from the Hong Kong SAR Government in recognition of his outstanding artistic achievements.
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travelling exhibition Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London and ArtisTree, Hong Kong, in 2013; and Conceptual
Feeling beyond Images: The Works of Hon Chifun, CityU Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2007.
TOSHIMITSU IMAI 今 井 俊 満
Untitled 1987 Silkscreen on paper Edition 82 of 100 115 x 84 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by Jehan Chu, Vermillion Art Collections
Toshimitsu Imai (1928 – 2002) was born in Kyoto,
Past exhibitions and projects include
Japan. After finishing school in 1948, he trained at the
the 2nd São Paulo Biennale, in 1953, the
Tokyo State Art Academy. Imai’s early style of painting
Venice Biennale, in 1960; and also Centre
is reminiscent of the Fauves. Throughout Imai’s career
Georges Pompidou, Paris, in 1982.
his work was distinguished by an acute sensitivity to colour. In 1951, Imai was awarded the KansaiShinseisaku Prize and the next year, the prize for the best new artist at the 15th Shinseisaku Salon. That same year, Imai moved to Paris where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne and completed a degree course in medieval history and philosophy. Imai was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1996 and the subsequent year, an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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KIM YUNHO
A Long Dock 2010 Lightjet print Edition 3 of 10 62.5 x 52 cm Estimate: HK$ 8,000 – 12,000 Generously donated by the artist and ONE AND J. Gallery
Yunho Kim (b. 1971, South Korea) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Seoul, South Korea. Kim received his MFA and BFA
Biennale Giovani Monza, in 2011;
in photography from the Chungang University and
travelling exhibition Chaotic Harmony,
completed an associate research studentship from Goldsmith College in 2005. He has participated in prestigious residency programmes such as Mongin Art Space Residency; Changdon Art Studio (National Museum of Contemporary Art); and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Residency Programme in Berlin.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA, in 2009; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA, in 2010.
MEIRO KOIZUMI 小 泉 明 朗
MacArthur and the Emperor 2014 Charcoal on paper Unique 25.6 x 36.4 cm Estimate: HK$ 18,000 - 30,000 Generously donated by the artist
Meiro Koizumi (b. 1976, Japan) lives and works in
Past exhibtions and projects include Ten
Yokohama, Japan. Koizumi studied at the International
Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong
Christian University, Tokyo in 1996–1999, Chelsea
Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong, and Theory
College of Art and Design, London between 1999 and 2002, and Rijksakademie van beeldend kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2005-2006.
on the Desk, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, in 2014; BMW Tate Live: Performance
Room – Meiro Koizumi, Tate Modern London, and Project Series 99: Meiro
Koizumi, Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2013; and Shanghai Biennale, Bandung Pavilion, in 2012.
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RUNO LAGOMARSINO
La Mesa 2007 Collage and pen on paper Unique 24 x 16 cm Estimate: HK$ 10,000 - 20,000 Generously donated by the artist, Nils
Stærk and Mendes Wood Dm Gallery
Runo Lagomarsino (b. 1977, Lund, Sweden) lives and
Jumex, Mexico City, in 2010; Report on
works in Malmö and São Paulo. Born in Scandinavia
Probability, Kunsthalle Basel, in 2009;
to Italian immigrants who fled Europe during WWI, his
the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Korea, and
biography encapsulates the colonial histories his work delves into. Past exhibitions and projects include Golden Heights
Estate, Para Site, Hong Kong, Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Der Leone Have Sept
Cenbeças, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, Leaving To Return, 12th Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, in 2014; For No Apparent
Reason, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, in 2013; The Imminence of Poetics, the 30th São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, The Unexpected Guest Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool,
Unfinished Journeys, The National Museum of Norway, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, in 2012; Untitled (12th
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Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, the 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, in 2011; The Moderna Exhibition 2010, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, The Traveling Show, Colección
AutoStop, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, in 2008.
FIRENZE LAI 黎 清 妍
Scorpion Braid 2014 Oil on canvas Unique 45.5 x 35.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 40,000 - 70,000 Generously donated by the artist and Vitamin Creative Space
Firenze Lai (b. 1984, Hong Kong) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. She studied Fine Art at the Hong Kong
Disturbances, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, in
Art School and majored in painting. Her ‘situation
2013; Painting On and On: 2. Automatic
portraits’ often re-interprets scenes in unfamiliar ways with a focus on the constructive and expressive role of colour and shade.
Banana, Gallery EXIT@Southsite, Hong Kong, and Sensory Training, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, in 2012;
Absent Minded, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, in 2011.
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SARAH LAI CHEUK WAH 黎 卓 華
Still Life Practice (Pills) 2013 Oil on canvas Unique 64 x 80 cm Estimate: HK$ 35,000 - 60,000 Generously donated by the artist and Gallery EXIT
Sarah Lai Cheuk Wah (b. 1983, Hong Kong) lives
Past exhibitions and projects include
and works in Hong Kong. She graduated from the
Spotting the light onto a light, Gallery
Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of
EXIT, Hong Kong, in 2013; Safety Island,
Hong Kong in 2007. In the same year, she received the Ramon Woon Creative Prize, Grotto Fine Art’s Creative Award and Cheng’s Fine Arts Award in Western Painting. Lai was also a finalist for the 2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
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Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, in 2011; and
Reflection, Revelation: New Works by Flora Fok & Sarah Lai, Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, in 2008.
LAM HOI-SIN 林 愷 倩
Call Me Maybe; Poles; Consumerist; Drive 2013 Collage Unique 22.5 x 21 cm; 22.8 x 27.5 cm; 23.8 x 28.2 cm; 15.8 x 19.9 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 – 30,000 Generously donated by the artist
Lam Hoi-sin (b. 1986, Hong Kong) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. Lam is focused on internet cultivation in
Shampoo Whatever #1, A·lift, Hong Kong,
past years, as well as themed blogs and online delivery
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in
of contextualised contents. Lam’s oeuvre covers various media such as the readymade, installations, and drawings.
Hong Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014; The Personal and the Political, Experimenta, Hong Kong, in 2013; The
Crap Show, HARDNECK.hk, Hong Kong, in 2012; Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, in 2011.
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LAM YAU-SUM 林 佑 森
Virtual City III: King of Beasts 2008 Enamel paint on circuit board Unique 41.5 x 34 cm Estimate: HK$ 8,000 – 12,000 Courtesy the artist and Grotto Fine Art
Lam Yau Sum (b. in China) lives and works in Hong
Past exhibitions and projects include
Kong. He studied in the Hong Kong Art School and
Cityscape – Lam Yau-sum, Grotto Fine
graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Art, Hong Kong, in 2014; Transparent
Technology University with a degree in Fine Art in 2010. Lam was awarded the New Trend Award from Artist Commune, Kowloon in 2010.
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Sceneries, Gallery Livi, Hong Kong, in 2012; Art Asia Miami, Miami, USA, in 2010.
KESANG LAMDARK
Shirt 7 2013 PVC, metal Unique 90 x 60 x 4 cm Estimate: HK$ 9,000 – 12,000 Courtesy the artist and Rossi & Rossi
Kesang Lamdark (b. 1963, India) lives and works in
Past exhibtions and projects include
Switzerland. He studied at Parsons New School for
MoMARS (Museum of Modern Mars),
Design in New York City and obtained an MA in Visual
Rossi & Rossi at Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Columbia University in 1997. Kesang Lamdark’s sculptures, plastic thangkas and lightboxes are evidence of the artist’s displaced and multicultural upbringing. Wherever he has lived, Lamdark has
in 2014; Headless Disco on Top of The
World, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, in 2013 and Son of Rimpoche, Rossi & Rossi, London, United Kingdom, in 2011.
always felt like an outsider. His search for an appropriate cultural space ultimately turned inwards and he eventually came to understand and reconnect with his Tibetan heritage while living in the West. Lamdark’s Tibetan-Western identity lies in his ability to understand and find a balance between both cultures.
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KESANG LAMDARK
Ritual Dancer 2013 Wood, LED light, pleximirror Unique 30 x 24 x 8 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 50,000 Courtesy the artist and Rossi & Rossi
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LEE BUL 李 昢
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 2002 - 2003 India ink on paper Unique 32.4 x 24.1 x 3.2 cm Estimate: HK$ 35,000 - 55,000 Generously donated by the artist and Lehmann Maupin
Lee Bul (b. 1964, Korea) grew up in Seoul, South Korea
Past solo exhibitions and projects have
and received a BFA in sculpture from Hongik University.
been featured in MUDAM - Musée d’Art
Considered one of the leading Korean artists of her
Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg,
generation, she has achieved international recognition for her formally inventive, intellectually provocative
in 2013-14; Mori Art Museum, in 2012 and Domus Artium, Salamanca, in 2007.
oeuvre. Demonstrating virtuosity across diverse media—from drawing and performance to sculpture, painting, installation and video—her multifaceted production is representative of the most innovative aesthetic currents shaping contemporary art in the global sphere. Lee was awarded Honorable Mention at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 and subsequently garnered the Noon award at the 10th Gwangju Biennale in 2014.
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LEUNG CHI WO 梁 志 和
Untitled (Hong Kong Standard, June 16, 1996) 2014 Laser engraving on aluminium sheet, hand-folded Edition 1 of 8 36.6 x 57.3 cm Estimate: HK$ 12,000 - 20,000 Generously donated by the artist
Leung Chi Wo (b. 1968, Hong Kong) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. A co-founder of Para Site, he completed
Jonathan & Muragishi, International
his MFA at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in
Studio & Curatorial Programme (ISCP),
1997. Leung was granted the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 1999 and represented Hong Kong at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. He has been Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong since 2010.
New York, and Bright Light Has Much the
Same Effect as Ice, 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2013; and the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, and Higher
Atlas, the 4th Marrakech Biennale, in 2012.
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LI GANG 李 鋼
September 2014 Stones and glue Unique 39 x 35 x 6.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 60,000 - 90,000 Generously donated by Galerie Urs Meile
Li Gang (b.1986, China) lives and works in Beijing
Past exhibitions and projects include
China. He graduated from the Yunnan Dali Academy,
Salt Road, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne,
Dali, in 2007 and Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,
Switzerland, and Inside China, Palais
in 2009. Though he originally trained as a painter, Li believes in breaking free of working purely on canvas is what led him to begin creating more sophisticated work. By making his own creative connections
de Tokyo, Paris, France, in 2014;
Building Bridges, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus China, Wolfsberg, Ermatingen, Switzerland, in 2013.
explicit to others in his work, he hopes that he will be continually pushed to create innovative, thoughtful art.
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LI SHURUI 李 姝 睿
2014.8.17 2014 Acrylic on paper Unique 22 x 30 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist and Aike-Dellarco
Li Shurui (b. 1981, China) now lives and works in
Recent exhibitions and projects include
Beijing. In 2004, she graduated from Sichuan Fine
Monadology, White Space Beijing, China,
Arts Institute in Chongqing. Always observant to
Myth/History, Yuz Museum, Shanghai,
her physical surroundings for what catches her eye, and fascinated by light and the colour spectrum it produces, Li began her lights series in 2005 using airbrushing techniques. Now recognised as an artist in China for this technique, Li continues to develop her concept of lights and space, and has gained an important collector base from around the world for her work.
and About Painting, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China, in 2014; 28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA, Wen Jing, Aike–Dell’arco, Shanghai, and ON|OFF, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, in 2013; Li Shurui, Gallery SCQ, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Cohere
& Unroll, Space Station, Beijing, in 2012; LSR, Connoisseur Contemporary and Connoisseur Art Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2012.
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CHARLES LIM 林 育 榮
SEA STATE 2: as evil disappears 2012 Diptych, Diasec prints Edition 2 of 3 + 1 AP 140.8 x 57.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 40,000 - 60,000 Generously donated by the artist and Future Perfect
Charles Lim (b. 1973, Singapore) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Singapore. As a former professional sailor, he sees the
Islands Off the Shores of Asia, Para
world like few other artists. After sailing for Singapore
Site and Spring Workshop, Hong
in the 1996 Summer Olympics, Lim studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, graduating in 2001. His early collaborative project, tsunamii.net, traced the hidden submarine infrastructure that underpins our global computer networks. Recalling the excursions of the Land Art movement of the 1970s, Lim’s SEA STATE project
Kong, SEA STATE 3: Inversion, Future Perfect, Singapore, and UNEARTHED, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, in 2014; Rendezvous 13, Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne, Lyon, France, in 2013; Singapore Biennale—Open
House, Singapore, in 2011; Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, and Manifesta 7,
explores both natural and man-made systems, opening
Trentino, Italy, in 2008; dOCUMENTA 11,
extraordinary new perspectives on our everyday
Kassel, Germany, in 2002.
surroundings, exposing unseen and alien landscapes,
His award-winning short film, All The
shifting, arbitrary borders, and imagined territories of the future.
Lines Flow Out, won a Special Mention at the 68th Venice Film Festival (2011). In 2014, Lim was selected to represent Singapore at the 56th Venice Biennale.
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WILLIAM LIM 林 偉 而
54:02 : Bottles 2011 Ball point pen, acrylic on board Unique 80 x 60 x 9 cm Estimate: HK$ 35,000 - 55,000 Generously donated by the artist
William Lim (b. 1957, Hong Kong) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. He is an architect and visual artist. Lim
Imminent Domain: Designing the Life
graduated from Cornell University, New York, USA, with
of Tomorrow, Asia Society, Hong Kong,
a BA and MA in architecture. He is the founder and managing director of the multidisciplinary architecture and interior design firm CL3 Architects, with studios in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. His practice includes architectural installations dealing with interventionist strategies in public spaces. Besides being an artist, he was also the co-chairman of Para Site in 2011–2013.
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in 2013; Space Journey, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, in 2012; and Farmscape, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Hong Kong, in 2009. Lim’s Lantern Wonderland also won the Guinness World Record for the largest sculpture made of lanterns.
MARIKO MORI 森 万 里 子
Little Birds 2014 Lucite Edition 3 of 100 8.9 x 22.9 x 11.4 cm Estimate: HK$ 50,000 - 80,000
© Mariko Mori, Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly New York
Generously donated by the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery
Mariko Mori (b. 1967, Japan) lives and works in
Mori was awarded Honorable Mention at
New York, London and Tokyo. Her practice explores
the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the
universal questions at the intersection of life, death,
8th Annual Award as a promising Artist
reality and technology. Mori’s recent large sculpture includes Sun Pillar in 2011. This sculpture was the very first installation realized for the project of Faou
and Scholar in the field of Contemporary Japanese Art in 2001 from Japan Cultural Arts Foundation.
Foundation in the Continent of Asia in Miyako Island of Okinawa in Japan with the mission to bring attention to Earth-consciouness. Faou Foundation was founded by Mori in 2010 as an educational and cultural nonprofit organization to dedicate a series of harmonious, site-specific permanent art installations to honor the nature of six habitable continents. The upcoming Faou Foundation permanent installation entitled Ring will be installed over a beautiful waterfall at Visconde Mauá, in the city of Resende, not far from Rio de Janerio, Brazil, in 2016.
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FARHAD MOSHIRI
Natural 2013 Digital print on fine art cotton paper Edition 20 of 300, artist signed and numbered at the right bottom corner 70 x 50 cm Estimate: HK$ 4,000 - 6,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galerie Perrotin
Farhad Moshiri (b. 1963, Iran) lives and works in
materials such as glitter, jewels, gold
Teheran and Paris. In the 1980s, Moshiri studied fine
leaf and pearls made his ironic works.
arts at CalArts in Pasadena, California, where he first
Some of his wall-base works combine
started experimenting with installations, video art and
the pixelated digital imagery with
painting. His ironic interpretation of hybrids between
the visual effect of tiled mosaics
traditional Iranian forms and those of the consumerist
and combined traditional Iranian and
and globalized popular culture widespread in his
contemporary Western iconography.
country made him worldly famous.
Float, Galerie Perrotin, New York, in
social and political criticism. He has a trademark
2014; the 55th Venice Biennale, in 2013
of using three-dimensional objects, bursting with
and The World Belongs to You, François
popular foods, drinks and desserts with popular scripts
Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice,
elegantly written on its body. Recalling ‘spiritual pop
in 2011.
art’ of artists from 60s and 70s inspires him. Different
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Past exhibitions and projects include
His work has a theme of cynical, concerned with
CHARLES MUNKA
Vessels in Port 2014 Carbon paper etching on paper pasted on canvas Unique 160 x 95 cm Estimate: HK$ 40,000 - 60,000 Generously donated by the artist
Charles Munka (b. 1981, France) now lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects include
in Hong Kong. Munka channels the effervescent touch
Scavi, Galerie Clemens Gunzer, Zurich,
of a cluster of European-American traditions related to expressionism and abstraction but also uniquely opens a dialogue with Asian metropolitan cultures. He absorbs his surroundings, seeing them as ever-shifting spaces encoded with place, time and history. Munka’s prolific and passionate work begs intrigue as he delves into legend and myth with accomplished skill—his knowing gestural brushstrokes, his harmonious use of
in 2014; Surface Tension, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2013; New
Exchange, HVW8 Gallery, Los Angeles, Installation, Joyce Showroom, Hong Kong, and Art Flat, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2012; New Wave, Opera Gallery, Singapore, in 2011; Octagon, Naço Gallery, Shanghai, in 2010.
composition, and his subtle manipulation of colour.
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ELIZABETH NEEL
Dorsolateral Prefrontal 2011 Oil and spray paint on canvas Unique 193 x 243.8 cm Estimate: HK$ 180,000 - 300,000 Generously donated by the artist and Pilar Corrias
Elizabeth Neel (b. 1975, USA) lives and works in New
Past exhibitions and projects include
York. She graduated from Columbia University with
Speaking Through Paint, Lori Bookstein
an MFA in 2007. Neel’s paintings and sculptures blur
Fine Art, New York, in 2014; 3 and 4
relationships between architecture and the body, memory and action. Drawn from specific, real world subject matter—from anonymous images sourced from the Internet to found objects—Neel’s ‘fictive situations’ trace excavations of life, along with its contamination through death and decay, and have an uncanny insistence on the representational residue of mark making. Her sculptural assemblages meanwhile extend the sensibility of perspective and proximity between disparate gestures into three dimensions, using a diverse array of materials including clay, wood, wax, tape, inkjet prints and found objects. Through
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stimulating relationships between her paintings and sculptures Neel returns to architecture as a narrative tool for framing objects and images.
before 2 and 5, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, in 2013; Modern Talking, Cluj Museum, Cluji-Napoca, Romania, Routes
and Pleasures, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, in 2012; Painting Overall, Prague Biennale, Czech Republic, Sphinx Ditch, Pilar Corrias, London, in 2011;
NG KA CHUN 吳 家 俊
Drain 2014 Artist’s hair Edition 1 of 2 15 cm (diameter) Estimate: HK$ 8,000 - 10,000 Generously donated by the artist
Ng Ka Chun (b. 1985, Hong Kong) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include the
Hong Kong. He graduated from the Academy of Visual
Hong Kong Sculpture Biennial and Shed—
Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, in 2008 and is a
NG Ka-chun and WONG Chun-keung joint
core member of the community art space Woofer Ten. Ng’s practice focuses on the basics of life where his
exhibition, A•lift Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2012.
art unsettles city dwellers’ relationships with nature. In many of his works, he puts a spin on industrially manufactured ready-made objects, presenting an alternative perspective that challenges the commonly accepted ways of life. He has also responded to social issues around urban development and preservation with intervention-installations and has participated in several public/community art projects
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KINGSLEY NG 伍 韶 勁
Solitary Light 2011 Digital print on archival paper mounted on aluminium board Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP 40 x 200 cm Estimate: HK$ 45,000 - 70,000 Generously donated by the artist and Osage Gallery
Kingsley Ng (b. 1980, Hong Kong) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. He is an interdisciplinary artist focusing
the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong
on conceptual, site-specific and community-engaging
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, in 2012;
projects. He believes that art helps us mediate our environment, whether as viewer or participant. Like the grazing of the wind against grass, it is also about the experience as well as emotions. It reveals the invisible, gives shape to the intangible and makes memories less hazy. These principles are driven not by a selfindulgent romance of art, but by a belief that art can be socially relevant. Art provides a language to render social issues alive and meditate ideas and impressions that can engage across a larger public.
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Kingsley Ng, Osage Soho, Hong Kong, and See the Light, Espace Louis Vuitton, Hong Kong, in 2011.
LULU NGIE 倪 鷺 露
Damp 2012 Ink on paper Unique 47 x 47 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 50,000 Generously donated by the artist and Gallery EXIT
Lulu Ngie (b. 1972, Hong Kong) lives and works in Hong
Past exhibitions and projects include Day
Kong. Considered an outsider artist, Ngie has been
after day after day, Gallery EXIT, Hong
painting for nearly 10 years. Her ink on paper works
Kong, Hong Kong Eye, ArtisTree, Hong
follows a tradition in Chinese painting called yi bi. They contain no narratives; instead, they are reflective of the painter’s mental state. These visualisations of Chinese philosophy are part of her constant search
Kong, and Disturbances, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, in 2013; Painting On and
On: 2. Automatic Banana, Gallery EXIT@ Southsite, Hong Kong, in 2012.
for meaning. The melancholic drawings suggest that despite all effort, the journey is futile and empty. According to Ngie, the line figures are ‘very conscious of the fact that they do not know what they are doing’.
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NGUAN 源
Untitled (from the series How Loneliness Goes) 2011 Archival pigment print Edition 1 of 5 + 1 AP 100 x 100 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 50,000 Generously donated by the artist
Nguan (b.1973, Singapore) was born and raised
Past exhibitions and projects include
in Singapore. He graduated from Northwestern
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in
University with a degree in Film and Video Production.
Hong Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014,
Nguan’s photographs contemplate life and longing in the world’s biggest cities, and they have been featured in international publications as diverse as the groundbreaking street art magazine Arkitip, the influential hipster bible Vice and the contemporary art journal Kaleidoscope. His images have also appeared on many of the world’s most popular websites.
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where a selection from How Loneliness
Goes was exhibited; the full series will be presented this January in a solo exhibition as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015.
JOÃO VASCO PAIVA
Portolan III 2014 Nylon on wood Unique 150 x 120 cm Estimate: HK$ 60,000 - 90,000 Generously donated by the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery
João Vasco Paiva (b. 1979, Portugal) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and project include Cast
Hong Kong. Paiva graduated from Porto Arts Institute
Away, Fundação Oriente, Macao, Latent
in Porto, Portugal and completed an MFA in Creative
Spaces, Haw Par Villa, Singapore, and the
Media, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. At the heart of Paiva’s practice is an interest in finding order amidst urbanity’s intrinsic complexity. Paiva often creates works in multiple mediums, which consistently explore how urban spaces may serve as catalysts for aesthetic production. While Paiva’s work is intrinsically tied to Hong Kong, his work resounds with dense urban
travelling exhibition Landseasky, Artsonje Center, Seoul, OCAT Shanghai and MAAP, Brisbane, all in 2014; Near and Elsewhere, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Objects
Encrypted, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong, and Living as Art Form, Independent Curators International, New York, in 2013;
Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, in 2012; and Palimpseptic, Saamlung, Hong Kong, in 2011.
environments around the globe: it suggests that cities, regardless of location, share certain visual and physical characteristics that, following a process of documentation and abstraction, may be reduced to readable and informative truths.
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CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU
Untitled (from the series The Permeability of Certain Matters) 2014 C-Print Edition 2 of 5 + 2 AP 32 x 43 x 3 cm Estimate: HK$ 25,000 - 35,000 Generously donated by the artist and RODEO
Christodolos Panayiotou (b. 1978, Cyprus) lives and
Past exhibitions and projects include
works between Limassol, Cyprus and Paris, France.
The Permeability of Certain Matters,
He has a background in dance, performance, and
Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, and Berlin
anthropology. Panayiotou’s practice weaves together the methods of the researcher and the choreographer, often focusing on various forms of power relations and exchange. He was awarded The Future of Europe Prize in 2011 and Undo Foundation award in 2008.
Biennale, Berlin, Germany, in 2014; dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany in 2012;
The Hand, The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and
The Eye & the Heart, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia, in 2011; The Columns Held Us Up, Artist Space, New York, in 2009.
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JINA PARK
Dry Wood, Plants in the Room, Highway 01 2013 Pencil and colored pencil on paper Unique 26 x 34 cm each Estimate: HK$ 15,000 - 20,000 Generously donated by the artist
Jina Park (b. 1974, USA) lives and works in Seoul, South
Recent exhibitions and projects include
Korea. She received a MA from Chelsea College of Art
Neon Grey Terminal, HITE Collection,
& Design in London in 2000, and graduated with a
Seoul, A Journal of the Plague Year, Arko
BFAf from the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea in 1997.
Art Center, Seoul, in 2014; Permeated
Perspectives, Doosan Gallery, New York, USA, in 2013; Snaplife, Sungkok Art Museum, in Seoul, in 2010; Annual
Report: A year in Exhibitions, The 7th Gwangju Biennale, in 2008.
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QIU ZHIJIE 邱 志 傑
Where: By the Lake 2005 Colour photographs Edition 2 of 10 50 x 67 cm each Estimate: HK$ 50,000 - 80,000 Generously donated by the artist and Hanart TZ Gallery
Qiu Zhijie (b. 1969, China) graduated from the
Past exhibitions and projects include Qiu
printmaking department of the Zhejiang Academy of
Zhijie: Bird’s Eye View, Hanart TZ Gallery,
Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, in
Hong Kong, in 2013; Blueprints, Witte
1992. Since the 1990s he has become one of the most active conceptual artists in China, as well as being one of the most diverse: his many identities include artist, curator, writer, professor, and scholar. Since 2002, Qiu has been involved in the Long March Project in Beijing, China as a co-curator.
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de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, in 2012. Qiu was also the chief curator of the 9th Shanghai Biennale in 2012.
(Stephanie Sin, Damon Tong and Timothy Zauhou)
RENTAL UNITED 夾 租 團 (
As You Like It 2013 Photographs Special edition set of 3 photos 50.5 x 40.5 cm each Estimate: HK$ 8,000 - 15,000 Generously donated by the artist and EC Gallery
冼 朗 兒 、 唐 偉 傑 、 鄒 昊 )
Rental United is an artist collective formed in 2009 by Stephanie Sin (b. 1984), Damon Tong (b. 1979), and Timothy Zauhou (b. 1979). As a team, they are continuously developing works with performance elements and time-based live happenings, intending to experience with the audiences and cherish different reactions as they further explore their creativity. Instead of making or creating an art, Rental United used a commercial wedding photo service to accomplish a concept ‘as you like it’. In 2012, Rental United bought the cheapest pre-wedding photo package with 3000 RMB in Shenzhen, China. Without any creativity or artistic involvement in the process of production, they strictly followed all the instructions that were given by the pre-wedding photographer. Three artists—two men and one woman—tried to imitate what ought to be happened during a standard pre-wedding photo event, revealing their sweetness and joy of a marriage captured in the pictures.
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EUGEN ROSCA
Untitled 2013 Oil on wooden panel Unique 33 x 47 cm Estimate: HK$ 18,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galeria Plan B
Eugen Rosca (b. 1988, Romania) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Cluj, Romania. He graduated from the University of Art
Knife Seller, Plan B, Berlin, in 2014;
and Design in Cluj. Rosca cleverly revisits surrealist
BERLIN SHOW #3: Glimpse (Mihut Boscu,
and expressionist painting with great wit that leans towards the poetical and the absurd. Images are utilized in such a way that the juxtapositions of elements actually amplify the enigma, rather than solve it. In an attempt to remove the veil to perception that has been imposed on us, Rosca’s language incorporates autobiographical narratives. By doing so he creates a patchwork of overlapping components that fit together so as to form a continuous survey of art historical languages.
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George Drimbau, Oana Farcas, M.P., Eugen Rosca, G. Stan, Veres Szabolcs, Lorant Szathmary), Plan B, Berlin, in 2011.
ROEE ROSEN
Men in Israeli Culture (Bearded) 2004 photograph Edition 1 of 30 29 x 32 cm Estimate: HK$ 5,000 - 10,000 Generously donated by the artist
Roee Rosen (b. 1963, Israel) is an Israeli-American
Past exhibitions and Projects include
artist, filmmaker and writer who lives and works in
Real Emotions, Thinking in Film, Kunst-
Israel. Having studied in Tel Aviv and New York, he is
Werke, Berlin, Berlin Documentary Forum
now a professor at Ha’Midrasha Art College and at the Bezalel Art Academy, both in Israel. Rosen’s painting and text installation, Live and Die as Eva Braun (19951997), stirred a scandal when first exhibited at the Israel Museum. The work was later recognized as groundbreaking in its approach to the representation of the Holocaust, and was exhibited in Berlin and in New York and Warsaw. Rosen dedicated many years to his fictive feminine persona, the Jewish-Belgian Surrealist painter and pornographer Justine Frank, a project that entailed fabricating her entire oeuvre as well as writing biographical and theoretical text about her, and the novel she supposedly authored. Rosen’s latest ongoing
3, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Ten Million Rooms of Yearning, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014; Le Pont, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France,
Maxim Komar-Myshkin: Vladmir’s Night, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Host
& Guest, Tel Aviv Museum, in 2013; Taipei Biennale, Taiwan, Animism, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, in 2012;
Trembling Times: Recent Videos from Israel, Tate Modern, London, in 2010. A mid-career retrospective, entitled Roee
Rosen—A Group Exhibition, is scheduled to open at the Tel Aviv Museum in November 2015.
project introduces a new fictive character, Maxim Komar-Myshkin, whose album of text and images,
Vladimir’s Night, combines a children’s tale with a gory assault on the president of Russia. Works from the album were first shown in the exhibition Animism in Vienna and Berlin.
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KAUSHIK SAHA
Spiritual Ecstasy I 2012 Acrylic on canvas Unique 119.5 x 90 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 – 25,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke
Kaushik Saha (b. 1989, India) lives and works in Baroda,
Past exhibitions and projects include Art
India. He attained a BFA at The Indian College of Arts
for Young Collectors, Galerie Mirchandani
and Draftsmanship at the Rabindra Bharati University
+ Steinruecke, Mumbai, in 2014. Saha is
in Kolkata, and an MVA at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda. In his layered paintings, there is a seeping of personal histories into the urban environment, rendered visible on the surface of the canvas as narrative fragments. The use of white plays a crucial role, giving the landscape a temporary coat of serenity—like the one a heavy snowfall gives to a soot-black industrial town.
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a recipient of the Inlaks Fine Art Award, 2014.
MOE SATT
Bicycle Tyre Rolling Event from Yangon 2013 Photographs Edition 1 of 5 60 x 91 cm each Estimate: HK$ 40,000 - 60,000 Generously donated by the artist
Moe Satt (b. 1983, Myanmar) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include the
Yangon, Myanmar. After graduating in 2005, he has
2nd CAFAM Biennale The Invisible Hand:
been part of a new generation of Burmese artists
Curating as Gesture, Beijing, in 2014; A
to emerge since 2000 with a different approach to conception and embodiment. In 2008, he founded and organised Beyond Pressure, an international festival of performance art in Myanmar. As a performance artist, Moe has performed in galleries and also on the streets of Yangon. He has actively participated in live arts festivals in Southeast and South Asia and occasionally
Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2013; 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, in 2009; 9th Asiatopia Performance Art Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2007.
in the West.
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SONG TA 宋 拓
Rank 2015 in Uglier and Uglier (Male Version) 2014 Gel pen on paper Unique 42 × 29.7 cm Estimate: HK$ 8,000 - 12,000 Generously donated by the artist
Song Ta (b. 1988, China) lives and works in Guangzhou,
Past exhibitions and projects include
China. He graduated with a BFA from Guangzhou
Song Ta: The Loveliest Guy, Beijing
Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. His artwork is at once
Commune, Beijing, in 2014; ON|OFF:
a reminder of natural law and an offering for the consideration of the upholders of this law. Technical finesse and common aesthetic concerns are almost entirely shunned as the brunt of the artwork opts instead to take the form of a political barometer. Song Ta was previously a participant of Para Site’s International Art Residency Programme.
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China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, in 2013; My Ten Favourite
Doctors, Arrow Factory, Beijing, 1st CAFAM Biennale, Beijing, and Alternatives
to Ritual, Goethe-Institut, Shanghai, all in 2012; Gray Area, Observation Society, Guangzhou, in 2011.
ANGELA SU 徐 世 琪
Air and Angels 2009 Ink on drafting film Unique 83 x 58 cm Estimate: HK$ 60,000 – 80,000 Generously donated by the artist
Angela Su (b. 1966, Hong Kong) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Hong Kong. Before pursuing visual arts, Su graduated
Eros and Ten Million Rooms of Yearning.
from Canada with a degree in biochemistry. By
Sex in Hong Kong, Para Site, Hong
adopting existing scientific belief systems, Angela creates works that prompt us to contemplate our own being, our inscription in space and in time. Her biological drawings combine the precision of scientific sketches with a mythical sense of aesthetics to challenge our position and perception of ecological and evolutionary systems.
Kong, and the 2nd CAFAM Biennale The
Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture, Beijing, in 2014; In Berty We Trust!, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong, and The Spirit
of Ink, Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, in 2013; Hong Kong Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, in 2012; the 17th Biennale of Sydney, in 2010.
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MELATI SURYODARMO
Under the Tree and Making Kerok 2013 Charcoal on paper Unique 55 x 65 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist
Melati Suryodarmo (b. 1969, Indonesia) lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects include
in Gross Gleidingen, Germany, and Solo, Indonesia. She
Slapstick, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg,
studied under Marina Abramović at the Hochschule
Germany, in 2013; Taiping Tianguo
für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany, between 2001 and 2002 and completed her degree in performance art and sculpture in 2001. Suryodarmo pushes the limits of body and mind to the point of exhaustion. The internal systems of the psychological body in flux drive her to develop new structures of attitudes and thoughts. Interrogating fact and farce, politics and emotion, her highly visceral performances overwhelm and empower audiences to consider their own self-potential.
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Performance Programme, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2012; The Dusk, Umeå, Sweden, in 2010 and Manifesta 7, Trentino, Italy, in 2008.
YUK KING TAN 陳 玉 瓊
Braving the Threat of Rain - Yellow 2014 Silk screen, photograph Edition 1 of 5 100 x 100 cm Estimate: HK$ 25,000 - 35,000 Generously donated by the artist
Yuk King Tan (b. 1971, Australia) lives in Auckland, New
Past exhibitions and projects include
Zealand, and Hong Kong. She graduated with a BFA
Moderations(s), Asia Art Archive
from Auckland University, New Zealand, in 1993. Tan’s
Intervention, Hong Kong, in 2013; The
work spans diverse materials and media regarding the intersection between culture, work and identity, often culminating in a performative investigation towards political issues such as value and economy.
Limit of Visibility, 2P Contemporary, Hong Kong, What should I do to live in your life, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, U.A.E., in 2012; 3rd Fofofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen, Mannheim/Heidelberg, Germany, in 2009; News from the Island, Cambelltown Arts Centre, Sydney,
Turbulence, the 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand, Women’s Work, Osage Gallery, in 2008; the Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, in 2005; Remember
New Zealand, the 26th Bienal de São Paulo, in 2004; Centre of Attraction, the 8th Baltic Triennial, Lithuania, in 2002;
The Territorials, Camden Arts Centre, London, and Flight Patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2000.
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TANG KWOK HIN 鄧 國 騫
Tribute to Thomas Struth 2010 C-print Edition 2 of 5 150 x 100 cm Estimate: HK$ 25,000 - 35,000 Generously donated by the artist
Tang Kwok Hin (b. 1983, Hong Kong) lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects
in Hong Kong. He received his BFA and MFA from the
include Market Force Erasure: From
Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006 and 2008
Conceptualism to Abstraction, Osage,
respectively. Tang focuses on the occasion, space, time and way of encountering images or symbols to ex-plore hidden rules in living and the existing context for self-expression. In his view, art is about selecting and underscoring something in a complete sentence: to remove is to emphasise what remains. Tang was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in
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Hong Kong, and One Day Perhaps There’s
Discovery of That Unbeauty, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, in 2014; A
Thing or Two about the Bed, FOST Gallery, Singapore, and Then begin with an airline
ticket, am space, Hong Kong, in 2013; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Paradox of Choice in a Time of Anxiety,
2012, the Young Artist Award at the Hong Kong Arts
Para Site, Hong Kong, and I Call You
Development Awards in 2010 and first prize at the
Nancy, Amelia Johnson Contemporary,
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial in 2009.
Hong Kong, in 2012.
TENG CHAO-MING 鄧 兆 旻
Untitled 2014 Found prayer beads, fleece with hard-pressed text, cover Unique 25 x 25 x 2.8 cm Estimate: HK$ 5,000 - 10,000 Generously donated by the artist
Teng Chao-Ming (b. 1977, Taipei) currently lives
Recent exhibitions and projects include
and works in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his Master
Therefore, X=X., Project Fulfill Art Space,
degree from the Media Arts and Sciences program
Taipei, POST-movements: Nights of Café
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His research-based practice examines the contemporary notions of structures versus agency, and how it is manifested in different systems. He is particularly interested in concepts such as networks, emergence, impossibilities and uncertainties.
Müller, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Alter-Nativism: Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, in 2014; little water, Dojima River Biennial, Osaka, in 2013; Modern Monster: Death
and Life of Fiction, Taipei Biennial, Taipei, in 2012.
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WOLFGANG TILLMANS
Winter Roof (Gert Liebner) 2007 Chromogenic print, signed Edition 4 of 10 + 1 AP 30.5 x 40.6 cm Estimate: HK$ 60,000 - 70,000 Generously donated by the artist and David Zwirner
Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968, Germany) lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects include
in London, United Kingdom and Berlin, Germany.
Manifesta 10, St Petersburg, and Dark
Between 1990 and 1992, Tillmans studied at the
Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, in
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in Bournemouth, United Kingdom. He served as the Artist Trustee on the Board of Tate, London between 2009 to 2014 and previously won the Turner Prize in 2000. He also won the 2009 Kulturpreis awarded by The German Society of Photography, Heidelberg, Germany, and continues to run Between Bridges exhibition space in London.
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2014; Aquatopia: The imaginary of the
ocean deep, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, in 2013; the 3rd Moscow, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, in 2009.
ACHRAF TOULOUB
Untitled (future of Tradition) 2013 FInk, gouache and fire on paper Unique 71 x 55 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 40,000 Generously donated by the artist and Galeria Plan B
Achraf Touloub (b. 1986, Casablanca) lives and works
Past exhibitions and projects include
in Paris and Berlin. He graduated from École des
Des hommes, des mondes, College des
Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2013. Since then, he has been
Bernardins, Paris, in 2014; Project Room,
interested in developing works work based on the complicity between the technological society and
Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels in 2011; Biennale Arts Le Havre, in 2010.
the symbolic power of tradition, both invested with equal systemic capacities to shape the global. His drawing, sculpture and video works are built around the intuition that the conventional binary opposition between tradition and the modern mind is, in fact, a movement of convergence.
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HOWIE TSUI 徐 浩 恩
Bat Pool 2008 Acrylic, ink and collage on mylar Unique 23 x 23 cm Estimate: HK$ 18,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist
Howie Tsui (b. 1978, Hong Kong) was born in Hong Kong
Past exhibitions and projects include
and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and Thunder Bay, Canada.
Islands Off the Shores of Asia, Para Site
He now lives and works in Vancouver. Tsui graduated
and Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, in
from the University of Waterloo in 2002 with a BFA and was awarded the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in 2005 from the Canada Council as the most outstanding young artist.
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2014; Horror Fables, Le Gallery, Toronto, in 2013, and Radiant Specters, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, in 2012.
WANG GUOFENG 王 國 鋒
WHO IS HE? WHAT DID HE SAY? 2008 Photographic printed on Canson paper Edition 3 of 5 140 x 203 cm Estimate: HK$ 40,000 - 80,000 Generously donated by de Sarthe Gallery
Wang Guofeng (b. 1967, China) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Beijing, China. He studied at the Inner Mongolia Normal
Aura and Post Aura, 1st Beijing Photo
University and graduated from the Central Academy of
Biennale and Art Basel Hong Kong, de
Fine Arts, Beijing, China, in 1998. Wang used images from the newspapers, creating on purpose a blurred effect on them, and afterwards he modified them through a computer-software to produce a sense of
Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2014; New
Image after 2000, Enjoy Museum of Art, China, in 2012; Recalling and Shifting, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China, in 2011.
distance and illusion from the original images. Then, he added texts upon them, questioning the truthfulness of the images and what they represent, as a meditation about how the people constantly receive information from the newspapers and the mass media without actually interrogate themselves about what is actually true or not. Wang was awarded the AAC award in 2014 under the category of photographic arts.
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WEN YAU 魂 游
WYIFC Social Academy Proudly Presents Grey Treasure 2014 Performance, socially engaged art, a set of 6 A4-size certificates Dimensions variable Estimate: HK$ 35,000 - 45,000 Generously donated by the artist
Wen Yau (b. in Hong Kong) is a cross-media artist,
Past exhibitions and projects include the
researcher, curator and writer. Over the past few years,
10th OPEN International Performance
she has been concentrating on performance/live art
Art Festival, Beijing, in 2009; Domestic
and time-based media. Her works often grapple with cultural differences and intimacy in public space. Wen is also the co-founder of Woofer Ten, a local art organisation advocating political and community space.
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Affairs, Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden, in 2008; I pledge (not) guilty, Shu Ning Presentation Unit, Hong Kong, in 2004.
PHILIP WIEGARD
Sticky Ends 2014 Glue paint on Canson archival paper Unique 107 x 142 cm Estimate: HK$ 30,000 - 40,000 Generously donated by the artist
Philip Wiegard (b. 1977, Germany) lives and works
Recent exhitbions include The
in Berlin. He works with diverse mediums such as
Permeability of Certain Matters, Spring
photography and sculpture, often utilising shifts in
Workshop, Hong Kong, in 2014; View from
perspective to create and expose the illusion of depth.
Within, Season Projects, London, in 2013;
Wiegard studied Fine Art in Berlin and New York before
London, in 2010.
and Room without walls, Hayward Gallery,
graduating in 2003 from the University of Fine Arts, Berlin (UdK) with the Graduate’s Special Award. Since then, he has received grants from the German People’s Trust (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), as well as from the Berlin Senate for a Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2007.
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YANG DANFUL 楊 丹 鳳
Packing Me Softly 2012 Foam, hand embroidery Unique 50.5 x 30.5 x 37 cm Estimate: HK$ 60,000 - 90,000 Generously donated by Pearl Lam Galleries
Danful Yang (b. 1980, Shanghai) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Shanghai, China. Yang is a young Chinese designer
Design Miami Basel, Basel, Switzerland,
and head of the Shanghai-based consortium of
and Coming Home, Pearl Lam Galleries,
designers XYZ Design. Yang’s works are often playful and incorporate objects and materials in unexpected ways. She uses both traditional Chinese arts and crafts techniques as well as modern Western materials, which are reflective of her own cross-cultural experiences in cosmopolitan Shanghai and abroad. Her creative work is a cross-cultural bombardment
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The Cross Fertilisation of Design, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, in 2012. Supernatural! The Secret Life
of Things in Chinese Art & Design, Rockbund, Shanghai, in 2010; Sit in
China, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany, in 2009; St. Etienne
of visual stimuli, turning imitation into originality and
Design Biennial, France, and Seoul Design
reflecting the onslaught of a globalised consumer
Olympiad, Korea, in 2008.
culture.
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WILLIAM YANG
Invisibility #1 1995 Digital print Edition 5 of 10 30 x 40 cm Estimate: HK$ 8,000 - 15,000 Generously donated by the artist
William Yang (b. 1943, Australia) is a third-generation
performance pieces into film at the
Chinese-Australian artist. He moved to Sydney in 1969
University of NSW. My Generation,
and worked as a freelance photographer documenting
about the artistic community in
Sydney’s social life which included the glamorous
Sydney in the 70s and 80s, and
celebrity set and the hedonistic sub-cultural gay com-
Friends of Dorothy, about the gay
munity. Yang had his first solo exhibition Sydneyphiles
and lesbian community, have already
at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in
screened.
1978. Part of the exhibition showed scenes from gay life at the time: people, parties, shows, events, nights at the sauna Ken’s Karate Klub. It was the first time in Australia that images of this nature had been shown at a public institution, and the exhibition caused a
Past exhibitions and projects include Ten
Million Rooms of Yearing. Sex in Hong Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014; The China Project, GoMA, Brisbane, Australia, in 2009; Claiming China, Australian
sensation. In 1989 he integrated his skills as a writer
Centre for Photography and Monash
and a visual artist. He began to perform monologues
Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Yin-Yang: China
with slide projections in the theatre. These slide
in Australia, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney,
shows have become the main expression of his
in 2008; Diaries, New South Wales State
work. They tell personal stories and explore issues of
Library, Sydney, in 1998.
identity. Currently, he is converting some of his live
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RICKY YEUNG SAU-CHURK 楊 秀 卓
Double Man 1995 Acrylic on canvas Unique 136 x 107 cm Estimate: HK$ 15,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist
Ricky Yeung Sau Churk (b. 1952, Hong Kong) lives
Past exhibitions and projects include
and works in Hong Kong. He studied part time at the
Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in
Basic Art and Design Programme at the Department
Hong Kong, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2014;
of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Hong Kong, from 1978 to 1980. His work was first exhibited at the Tsung Tat bookshop in Happy Valley in 1979, and one of his early solo exhibitions took place at the Ninety Seven restaurant in Lan Kwai Fong in 1984. Yeung works in various medium, including painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, and for the past two decades, Ricky has been active in community art.
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travelling exhibition A Journal of the
Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story, Para Site, Hong Kong; TheCube Space, Taipei and Arko Art Center, Seoul, in 2013-14;
Painting On and On, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2013; The Red
Twenty Years of Ricky Yeung Sau-churk, Para Site, Hong Kong, in 2002.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
THIS IS NOT A JOKE 2010 Print (silkscreen on Arches BFK Rives paper: 100% cotton, manufactured on a cylinder mould, acid-free paper with alkali reserve, four fringed edges.) Edition 32 of 50 + 7 AP, signed, numbered and dated by the artists 120 x 80 cm Estimate: HK$ 25,000 - 35,000 Generously donated by the artist
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (YHCHI) is a
They have created works in eighteen
two-artist collaboration between Young-hae Chang
languages and presented much of it at
(South Korea) and Marc Voge (USA), based in Seoul,
major art institutions around the world
South Korea. They write and animate texts set to their own original music scores and present them on their website yhchang.com and in art spaces by projections or monitors. Using a seemingly simple format—texts on monochromatic backgrounds—YHCHI weaves complex and evocative narratives. YHCHI’s imaginative, witty, and often politically pointed narratives—which evoke the film noir genre and other related styles—
including the Tate Modern, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the New Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Most recently, they participated in the Mercosul 2011 Biennial in Porto Alegre Brazil and in the first Kiev Biennial in 2012.
offer layered and compelling stories in which identities are assumed and discarded while ideologies of all persuasions are upheld and questioned.
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SAMSON YOUNG 楊 嘉 輝
Composition 017 2014 Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper Unique 78.9 x 54.6 cm Estimate: HK$ 35,000 - 50,000 Generously donated by the artist
Samson Young (b. 1979) lives and works in Hong Kong.
Past exhibitions and projects include The
He is an interdisciplinary media artist who originally
Wizard’s Chamber, Kunsthalle Winterthur,
trained in music composition. Young received a PhD in
Winterthur, Switzerland, in 2013, and
Composition at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, under the supervision of computer music pioneer Paul Lansky. In 2007, he founded the experimental sound advocacy organisation Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong. He was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s Artist Associate in the 2008–2009 concert season, an organisation for which he developed a number of multimedia
Leslie and the Hong Kong Story, Para Site, Hong Kong, Arko Art Center, South Korea, and TheCube Space, Taiwan, in 2013-14; No Trans-national: Liquid
Borders and Empty Promises, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, in 2012 and Hong
Kong Whispers, 198 Contemporary Arts &
assistant professor at the School of Creative Media,
Learning, London, in 2010.
Artist in the Media Arts category by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2013.
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Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS,
and musical theatre productions. He is currently an City University of Hong Kong. He was named Best
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ZHOU TAO 周 滔
Thai Hat 2014 Watercolour on paper Unique 53.5 x 38.5 cm Estimate: HK$ 18,000 - 25,000 Generously donated by the artist and Vitamin Creative Space
Zhou Tao (b. 1976, China) lives and works in
Past exhibitions and projects include
Guangzhou, China. He graduated with a MA from the
Islands Off the Shores of Asia, Para Site
Fine Arts Academy in Guangzhou in 2006. Zhou’s work
and Spring Workshop, Hong Kong in 2014;
reflects on the activities and elements of everyday life. His subtle and humorous videos record interactions between people, things, and situations touching on questions about the multiple trajectories of reality.
The Training, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, in 2013; The Man Who Plants Scenarios, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, and Zhou Tao, Location One, New York, in 2011.
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ARTISTS
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Nadim Abbas 23
Farhad Moshiri 55
Ai Weiwei 22
Charles Munka 56
Hernan Bas 24, 25
Takashi Murakami 15
Larry Bell 16
Elizabeth Neel 57
Cai Guo-Qiang 04
Ng Ka Chun 58
Aslı Çavuşoğlu 26
Kingsley Ng 59
Casper Chan 27 Max Chan 28 Halley Cheng 29 Heman Chong 30 Motoyuki Daifu 31
N P
Nguan 61 João Vasco Paiva 62 Christodoulos Panayiotou 63 Jina Park 64
Olafur Eliasson 11
Qiu Zhijie 65
Jeremy Everett 32
Rental United 66
Bernard Frize 33, 34
Eugen Rosca 67
Antony Gormley 10
Roee Rosen 68
Minoru Hirata 35
H I
Lulu Ngie 60
South Ho Siu Nam 36
Kaushik Saha 69
Hon Chi Fun 37
Moe Satt 70
Hou Chun-Ming 08
Song Ta 71
Huang Ran 19
Peter Steinhauer 06
Toshimitsu Imai 38 Yunho Kim 39 Meiro Koizumi 40 Kwan Sheung Chi 13
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Angela Su 72 Melati Suryodarmo 73 Yuk King Tan 74 Tang Kwok Hin 75
Frog King Kwok 03
Teng Chao-Ming 76
Runo Lagomarsino 41
Wolfgang Tillmans 77
Firenze Lai 42
Achraf Touloub 78
Sarah Lai Cheuk Wah 43
Howie Tsui 79
Lam Hoi-sin 44
Wang Guofeng 80
Lam Yau-Sum 45
Lawrence Weiner 21
Kesang Lamdark 46, 47
Wen Yau 81
Lee Bul 48
Philip Wiegard 82
Lee Kit 20
Adrian Wong 09
Leung Chi Wo 49
Ming Wong 07
Li Gang 50
Yang Danful 83
Li Shurui 51
William Yang 84
Charles Lim 52
Ricky Yeung Sau-churk 85
William Lim 53
Trevor Yeung 01
Liu Xiaodong 05
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES 86
Tala Madani 17
Samson Young 87
MAP Office 02
Zhang Wei 14
Nick Mauss 18 Mariko Mori 54
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Zhao Renhui 12 Zhou Tao 88
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Patrick Lee
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Anthony Tao
Waling Boers
Li Yan
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Roberto Ceresia
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Henrietta Tsui
Johnson Chang
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Lea Freid
Urs Meile
Mihai Pop
Larry Gagosian
Etsuko Nakajima
Elisa Uematsu
Maia Gianakos
Brian Ng
Stephan Urbaschek
Hu Fang
Fabio Rossi
Sarah Wang
Taka Ishii
Pascal and Sylvie de Sarthe
Zhang Wei
Jay Jopling
Katherine Schaefer
Chinyan Wong
Sean and Lauren Kelly
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Paola Sinisterra and Ignacio Garcia
David Zwirner
Pearl Lam
Bim So
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Yana Peel Co-Chair
Mimi Chun Tim Li Man-Wai
Alan Lau Ka Ming Co-Chair
Alexandra Seno Chrissy Sharp
Jehan Chu Vice Chairman Sara Wong Secretary
STAFF Cosmin Costinas Executive Director/Curator
Lesley Ma Managing Editor
Frances Wu Giarratano Deputy Director
Jims Lam Project Manager/Assistant Curator
Qinyi Lim Curator
Ethan Cheng Project Manager/Assistant Curator
Xue Tan Project Manager 2014 PS Annual Benefit
Hilda Chan Gallery Manager/Curatorial Assistant
ADVISORY COUNCIL Savita Apte
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MK Lau Foundation Ltd.
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