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AU Hoi Lam: Painting, Its Reasons to Be

19 October - 30 November

Free

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Hanart TZ Gallery is proud to present AU Hoi Lam’s new solo exhibition Painting, Its Reasons to Be. The opening reception will take place at Hanart TZ Gallery on October 19, 2024 (Saturday), from 2 to 6 pm, in the presence of the artist.

It has been eight years since AU Ho Lam’s last solo show. Painting, Its Reasons to Be presents a range of more than 30 works selected from different periods, illuminating distinctive aspects of AU’s creative work over the past twenty years. Here, it is the paintings themselves that dialectically demonstrate the “reasons for painting”. Most of these works are being displayed in public for the first time, including the artist’s latest series Contemplating in a Hermetic House (2021-2024) and Prime Number or Imperfect Square (2024).

Contemplating in a Hermetic House comprises 10 works in pencil and acrylic on linen, including Portal, Transparent, Opaque, Puzzle Hong Kong Island and Cosmic Memento. Within this series there are three pairs of works in which one work appears to be an intricate magnification or inverse of the other, exploring the idea of intertextuality in painting. In the Prime Number or Imperfect Square series, seven prime numbers (1801, 1889, 1949, 1951, 1973, 1997, 1999) are separately represented as precisely calculated frames within a grid diagram. Within each frame is introduced a set of nearly perfect but imperfect squares, creating perceptible forms of numbers and geometry.

Details

Start:
19 October
End:
30 November
Admission:
Free
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Hanart TZ Gallery
Phone
25269019
Email
hanart@hanart.com
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