HONG KONG EXHIBITIONS: Liu Xiaoding: An Exhibition of 25 Oil Paintings 1993 – 2007 / Giacometti: Without End / ‘You.’ - Lee Kit
Serene Fu's selection of Hong Kong exhibitions:
Celebrated Beijing-based artist Liu Xiaodong, probably
second to none in the documentary genre of life painting in China, is notable
for working on location and producing poignant portraits of displaced
countrymen and depictions of unheroic ordinary lives. On show are 25 canvases from 1993 to
2007, in smaller formats than what Xiaodong currently produces.
Liu Xiaodong: An Exhibition
of 25 Oil Paintings 1993 – 2007 Yallay Gallery, Unit 3C, Yally Building,
6 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong. 3 March – 29 March 2014
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Liu Xiaodong,Train, 2002
Oil on canvas, 180 X 240 cm
Courtesy of Yallay Gallery
and the artist
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Liu Xiaodong, Playing with Tortoise, 2007
Oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm
Courtesy of Yallay Gallery
and the artist
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Liu Xiaodong, A Bunch of Pork at River, 2003
Oil on canvas, 97 X 76.5cm
Courtesy of Yallay Gallery
and the artist
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Liu Xiaodong, Hot Bed*, 2006
Oil on canvas, 90 X 70 cm
Courtesy
of Yallay Gallery and the artist
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Liu Xiaodong, As Good As It Can Get No. 6 (Falling
the Stairs on the Head), 2000
Acrylic on paper mounted on
canvas,138 X 136 cm
Courtesy of Yallay Gallery
and the artist
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Liu Xiaodong, Dead Water, 1993-1999
Oil on canvas,155.5 X 200 cm
Courtesy
of Yallay Gallery and the artist
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Liu Xiaodong, Watching, 2000
Oil on canvas, 200 X 200 cm
Courtesy
of Yallay Gallery and the artist
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| Exibition view, Liu Xiaodong: An Exhibition of 25 Oil Paintings 1993 – 200, Yallay Gallery, Hong Kong |
Giacometti: Without End features 150 lithographs with text produced for the book Paris sans fin (Paris without end). Together with key sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and archival material from the same period (mid 1950s - mid1960s), these works enable viewers to appreciate how Giacometti's unique style runs across his oeuvre.
Giacometti: Without End Gagosian Gallery, 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street Central, Hong Kong. 13 March – 21
April 2014
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Alberto Giacometti, Sous le ciel de Paris (Under the Sky of
Paris)
(maquette for Paris sans
fin), c1961
Paper and photo paper
13.5 X 10 cm(closed)
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Alberto Giacometti, Annette X, 1965
Bronze
44 X 18.2 X14cm
Cast: Susse Fondeur (1982)
Edition 1/8
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Alberto Giacometti, The Cage (First version), 1949-1950
Bronze
90.5 X 36.5 X 34cm
Cast: Susse Fondeur (1991)
Edition 7/8
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Alberto Giacometti, Bust of
Man (New York I), 1965
Bronze
53.9 X 29.4 X 17.8cm
Cast: Susse Fondeur (1969)
Edition 1/8
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Alberto Giacometti, Left: Clock at
intersection Alesia, Before September 25, 1960
Plate 93
Right:
Rue Hippolyte-Maindron with
barbershop in the foreground, Before
September 25, 1960
Plate 94
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Exhibition view, Giacometti: Without End, 13 March – 21 April 2014
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The Cattle Depot Artist Village hosts ‘You.’, a thought-provoking extension of Lee Kit’s solo presentation ‘You (you).’ at the 55th Venice Biennale. Lee Kit explores the relationship between private and
public space through the incorporation of paintings and seemingly banal intrusive objects - a
vacant security booth with a multicoloured shade on top, a worn muddy green
T-shirt and an empty plastic water bucket. As well as new video recordings showing monotonous chores, images of an
anonymous besuited man are randomly displayed throughout the Cattle Depot Artist Village as though reflecting on the viewer's relationship with the constructed world.
‘You.’ - Lee Kit Cattle Depot Artist Village 63 Ma
Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. 6 March – 13 April 2014
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Installation view, ‘You’ – Lee Kit, 6 March – 13 April 2014
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| Installation view, ‘You’ – Lee Kit, 6 March – 13 April 2014 |
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| Installation view, ‘You’ – Lee Kit, 6 March – 13 April 2014 |
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| Installation view, ‘You’ – Lee Kit, 6 March – 13 April 2014 |
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| Installation view, ‘You’ – Lee Kit, 6 March – 13 April 2014 |
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| Installation view, ‘You’ – Lee Kit, 6 March – 13 April 2014 |