ArtAsiaPacific Issue 141 (Nov/Dec)
- Mandy El-Sayegh
- Pratchaya Phinthong
- Anicka Yi
- Wu Jiaru
- Chan Hau Chun
- 15th Gwangju Biennale
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A Tale of Two Exhibitions: Warhol in Singapore and Hong Kong
A traveling show of the largest collection of Andy Warhol’s works opened at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMA) in December. “Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal,” organized by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to mark the 25th anniversary of the artist’s death, hit Singapore’s Art Science Museum (ASM) in March before coming to Hong Kong and continuing onto Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo. Having visited the exhibition in both Singapore and Hong Kong, I found suggestive differences between the two editions.
Song Dong: 36 Calendars
In an age of smartphone schedules, pop-up reminders and Facebook timelines, a hanging wall calendar might strike us as something preciously outmoded. There is nothing sentimental, however, about the 36 wall calendars recently presented by the Chinese artist Song Dong at Hong Kong’s ArtisTree arts venue.
Spring Workshop and “Moderation(s)”
Housed on one floor of an imposing 1970s industrial building, the Remex Centre, are the immaculate white interiors of Spring Workshop, the brain child of its dynamic founder and director Mimi Brown. With four working studios and two (currently rather dusty) terraces, and a total of 1,350 square meters, Spring had its soft opening in December 2011, since when its program has slowly gathered pace.
Takashi Murakami Visits Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
Takashi Murakami’s iconic, smiley-faced flowers sprouted in Hong Kong this winter. Opening November 29 at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, “Flowers & Skulls” drew the local press to the preview, where reporters dispensed smiles as manically cheery as those painted on the band of daisies surrounding them.
