Dis Play

Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong

Exhibition features three Hong Kong artists, challenging the relation of sculpture and display. Artists use sculpture in very different ways to ask questions about the very essence of the medium and the role of presentation and representation. Works by Nadim Abbas, Jonathan Leung Hoi Yat and Adrian Wong.

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DIS PLAY features three Hong Kong artists, challenging the relation of sculpture and display.

Nadim Abbas
Jonathan Leung Hoi Yat
Adrian Wong

Ever since Constantin Brancusi produced his sculptures with fitted bases, the pedestal has become an integrated part of an artwork. The division between pedestal and artwork ceased to have a clear definition and like in a painting or a picture, the picture carrier and the frame has to be seen as one entity.

Contemporary sculpture poses important questions such as, what is an actual sculpture, where does display start and where does the artwork end? Can a display, function as a frame for a picture and become part of an artwork or is it an independent work that should be removed from the artwork itself? The beauty of sculpture can have ambiguous answers and DIS PLAY will present three Hong Kong artists that use sculpture in very different ways to ask questions about the very essence of the medium and the role of presentation and representation. Each artist tackles the differences and commonness of work and display in their diverse artistic practices.

Para/Site Art Space has always been a place to provide space and support for art forms that are hard to be accommodated by other exhibition venues. In thinking about contemporary art forms, one may have the immediate association with video and multi-media, with hardly any attention or exhibition spaces for larger sculpture in Hong Kong. Paintings and other two-dimensional art forms are presented predominantly in art spaces and galleries, leaving the only possibility for sculptures to exist is through a compromising manner in shopping malls and a hand-full of public spaces. For younger artists, the production and storage of large-scale sculpture is problematic as space and demand is extremely limited.

Para/Site Art Space in the past few years have curated numerous exhibitions questioning the state of contemporary sculpture like Cao Fei’s COSplayers (2006), Dream a little dream (2006), Lawrence Weiner (2007), Lee Kit’s ¾ suggestions for a better living (2007) and most recently, Dennis Oppenhiem: Six Models (2008).

Opening Wednesday 27thFebruary at 7pm

Para/Site Art Space
G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan - Hong Kong
Opening hours: Wed – Sun 12 – 7
free admission

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Franz Ackermann
dal 4/7/2008 al 2/8/2008