Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Lee Kit: ‘Watching Soaps (I can’t recall the day that I last heard from you.)’ Osage Gallery 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Bldg., 73-75 Hung To Rd., Kwun Tong, Hong Kong 22 January – 22 February 2011 In his fifth major solo exhibition in two years, Lee Kit demonstrates [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Lee Mingwei: Liquid Forms 29 May – 27 June 2010 Osage Gallery 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Bldg., 73-75 Hung To Rd., Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Continuing a solid stretch of exhibitions examining the conditions of cross-cultural exchange within the global Asian heritage, Osage Gallery reveals at [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today Osage Kwun Tong 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China May 1, 2010 – June 27, 2010 The first thing to know about “The Burden of Representation” is that it is not, in fact, concerned [...]
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First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Parallel Worlds Osage Kwun Tong 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China March 27, 2010 – April 18, 2010 Having both studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, sisters Sara and Shirley Tse offer an interesting vision of the fracturing international art [...]
First published in ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Biography Osage Kwun Tong 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China January 23, 2010 – March 14, 2010 As is the norm for the never-ending parade of sprawling group shows at Osage Gallery, the curatorial mandate for the latest exhibition, Biography, is itself [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Jiang Zhi’s landmark solo exhibition Attitude has now completed two of its three manifestations: Osage Shanghai opened the project during the art fairs there in fall 2009, Osage Kwun Tong enlarged the presentation in scale and scope for Hong Kong this past month, and Osage Beijing, a gallery that has been devoid of exhibitions for [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
Text by Venus Lau 是的,李傑把卡拉ok帶到了展廳。藝術家在Osage Soho的個展Someone Singing and Calling Your Name展出兩件作品:“Fragments” 和“Sing any one of them, or all of them”。兩者儼然是兩個卡拉ok包房,“Fragments”展出摹仿廉價卡拉ok風格的錄像,影像在投影牆上循環往復,配合“As Time Goes By”, “The End of the World”等音樂播放;故意調低的室內溫度,使展廳貼近卡拉ok包廂的環境(可惜開幕當日人數太多,展場室溫其實不太低);牆上鋪上淺棕色紙皮,上面畫上著名的商品標誌;投影 牆跟老舊的沙發打照面,音箱負責將展廳內的音樂潑向畫廊外的街道。“Sing any one of them, or all of them”為四個堆疊成田字形的電視,分別展示著潤手膏,包裝咖啡糖,半滿的咖啡和Vaseline潤膚霜的錄像;各種物品的名字,披著卡拉ok字幕的大衣,現身畫面下方。 兩 件作品明顯是戲仿卡拉ok這個為港人熟知的半公共空間。Scott Lash 在北京的講座里,提到(馬清運認為)中國沒有公共空間,這裡指的或許是指Habermas提出的,可以進行公開討論的空間,而該空間不一定是個實體空間。Lash眼中的中國的公共空間是副作用,並非刻意為之。卡拉ok是一個“刻意為之”的實體半公共空間,人們在滿足了相當條件(主要是錢)就可以使用,和一 牆之隔的陌生人,在廉價的裝修映襯下,不是交換意見,而是展覽同樣廉價的情緒,附和大賣的甜酸情歌,吞下幻想中的凝視,然後和著“是日特價”的啤酒一飲而 盡。卡拉ok具有嚴格的功能性(雖然你以為自己在裡面有種種自由),並賦予歌唱這種個人娛樂以正當性(不少人深信在公眾地方唱歌,必須有合適的理由和場 所),這種空間功能在資本增殖中進一步強化和合理化。另一方面,畫廊的主要功用是展覽,(展覽開幕式中拿起米高峰高歌的觀眾確實寥寥,如此就能看出空間功 能性的嚴格)。李傑的兩件作品以場景的形式重新檢視著空間負荷著的功能性。卡拉ok的功能性和畫廊的展示功能互相撞擊之後,前者為後者所吸納,也彰顯二者 的相似之處:兩個空間有條件對外開放,而且需要公眾的參與來支撐(雖然說當代藝術並非為大眾而設)。場景是李傑常用的表現方式,除了這次的作品,今年五月Louis Vuitton展覽裡的“有浴室的房間”以及更早在北京維他命空間這個店舉行的“We Already Lost Too Many Interest”是其場景生產的例子。德勒茲說到畫家Francis Bacon的畫作頻密運用圓形場景,通過隔離(isolation)展開了敘事和比喻之間的第三條道路。李傑的場景展示了空間和物件重置的可能,以物件和 空間實體的明晰,模糊它們功能性的藩籬。 展覽名稱原來為Singing [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Text by Robin Peckham First published in the catalog Lee Kit: Someone Singing and Calling Your Name published by Osage Gallery to accompany a solo exhibition of the same title. Someone Singing and Calling Your Name Lee Kit has an attachment to things. Not particular objects that can be picked up, washed, sullied, felt, or [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Text by Robin Peckham Exhibition runs through 29 November 2009 Osage Gallery (5/F Kian Dai Building, 73-75 Hung To Rd., Kwun Tong, Hong Kong) Osage Gallery claims an interesting set of ties to the largely industrial neighborhood of Kwun Tong, where it maintains its flagship space and the offices of its parent company, a garment [...]
Text by Venus Lau and Robin Peckham Hong Kong Intervention: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu at Osage Kwun Tong It is easy to enter a Sun Yuan and Peng Yu exhibition with low expectations: their spectacle-based objects of fear and disgust often read as lowest-common-denominator attempts at art world humor. But occasionally, as with their [...]