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SUMMARY:The Beauty of Belle Epoque
DESCRIPTION:Franco Savadori is pleased to present “The Beauty of Belle Epoque” an exhibition about an eclectic overview of the vast European pictorial scene\, showcasing century\, including Romanticism\, Victorian Art\, French Realism\, German/Dutch Historicism\, Jugendstil (the Austro-German version of Art Nouveau artworks from various artistic currents of the second half of the 19th)\, Symbolism\, Orientalism\, and the Belle Epoque. The Belle Epoque\, a historical period between 1874 and 1914\, witnessed the flourishing and the explosion of the cult of female beauty\, explored in various ways. \nAround 1850\, a wave of strong artistic ferment began to spread across Europe\, marked by experimentation and research that led to the revolutionary movements giving rise to the great pictorial upheavals of the 20th century. This exhibition presents a sequence of paintings showcasing different facets of the work carried out by these artists on various stylistic fronts.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/the-beauty-of-belle-epoque/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Painting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250417
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SUMMARY:Monica Taverniti: Next of Kin
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “Next of Kin\,” an exhibition exploring the evocative designs of Monica Taverniti. The exhibition is supported by the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. \nThis exhibition features a collection of her unique creations\, where functional objects transcend their purpose and become storytellers. Taverniti’s pieces\, often resembling miniature buildings or enigmatic structures\, invite viewers to imagine the narratives they hold. The exhibition highlights her process of transforming everyday materials such as water-based enamels and acrylics\, markers\, and a two-component transparent finish\, into objects imbued with personality and history\, blurring the boundaries between art\, design\, and storytelling. “Next of Kin” offers a captivating look into Taverniti’s world\, where design sparks imagination and invites personal interpretation.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/monica-taverniti-next-of-kin/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250313
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SUMMARY:Roberto Davolio: Physis Glich - Reclaiming the Ineffable
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “PHYSIS GLITCH – Reclaiming the Ineffable\,” an exhibition by Italian artist Roberto Davolio\, supported by the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. Curated by Federica Viola\, this exhibition explores the intersection of technology and artistic sensitivity\, challenging our perception of reality in the digital age. \nDavolio’s captivating images\, infused with vibrant colors and geometric forms\, invite viewers to engage all their senses.  He uses an innovative device\, “Hermes\,” to interact directly with the camera’s lens\, projecting colors and shapes onto the subject. This process disrupts pre-programmed algorithms\, creating unforeseen visual possibilities and revealing hidden dimensions of reality.  The resulting photographs are not mere representations but reinterpretations\, prompting contemplation and a deeper understanding of our connection to the world around us. \n“PHYSIS GLITCH” draws inspiration from Eastern artistic traditions\, emphasizing contemplation\, emptiness\, and harmony. Davolio’s work resonates with the viewer on an emotional and spiritual level\, inviting intuition to transcend the limits of rationality.  In a world saturated with digitally manipulated images\, Davolio’s work offers a unique perspective\, questioning how we perceive reality and how technology can be used to expand\, rather than distort\, our understanding.  Join us for this thought-provoking exhibition and experience a new vision of the real.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/roberto-davolio-physis-glich-reclaiming-the-ineffable/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250301
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Michele De Lucchi: Produzione Privata
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “Produzione Privata\,” a solo show by Michele De Lucchi\, supported by the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. In this exhibition\, Michele De Lucchi showcases a captivating array of handcrafted design objects that embody the spirit of experimentation and craftsmanship. \nProduzione Privata\, established in 1990 by Michele De Lucchi and Sibylle Kicherer in Italy\, is an innovative design firm that champions the art of craftsmanship and the importance of handmade objects. The company operates outside conventional industrial production\, collaborating closely with artisans to create distinctive design pieces in small quantities. This approach allows for a focus on creativity and personalization\, offering clients a range of customizable options in furniture\, lighting\, and accessories. \nThe artworks on display draw inspiration from architecture\, art\, and traditional craftsmanship\, emphasizing a humanistic perspective that fosters emotional resonance and narrative depth. Each item reflects a commitment to quality and innovation\, showcasing the beauty of imperfection and the creative process\, along with the unique story behind its creation. This event promises to inspire and challenge perceptions of contemporary design\, reinforcing the importance of the human touch in every creation.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/michele-de-lucchi-produzione-privata/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250126
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SUMMARY:Studio Nucleo: Primitive
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present Primitive\, Studio Nucleo’s first solo show in Hong Kong showcasing the ‘Primitive’ series. The exhibition is kindly supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong and is part of BODW in the city. The artist will be present at the opening reception. \nBy synthesizing past influences with forward-thinking vision\, Studio Nucleo creates objects that are both surprising and deeply grounded. Their Primitive series exemplifies this ethos\, transcending conventional boundaries to merge functional design with sculptural art. In these pieces\, shape\, texture\, and colour intertwine to form a dramatic juxtaposition of geometric forms\, establishing a dialogue between past and present\, tradition and innovation. \nIn recent years\, Studio Nucleo’s work has taken on new urgency in the face of the climate crisis. While their practice has long embedded craftsmanship and local materials\, there is now a deeper focus on sustainability\, particularly using recycled and recyclable materials. The Primitive series reflects a growing commitment to ecological responsibility\, integrating principles of the circular economy into their design process. By rethinking the life cycle of their materials\, Nucleo offers a new\, more environmentally conscious model for contemporary design and our lifestyle. \nThe Primitive series stands as a testament to Studio Nucleo’s ability to bridge the past and the future\, art and design\, function and abstraction. It invites us to reconsider the role of objects in our daily lives—how they shape the spaces we inhabit and reflect the cultural and environmental contexts in which they are created. Each piece\, though individual\, contributes to a broader narrative of experimentation\, innovation\, and ecological consciousness. As we face a rapidly changing world\, the works of Studio Nucleo and the Primitive series offer a compelling vision of how design can evolve in harmony with both human needs and the planet’s future.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/studio-nucleo-primitive/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design
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SUMMARY:Costanza Gastaldi: EROSIVA
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present EROSIVA\, Costanza Gastaldi’s solo showing her newest series of photographs exploring female intimacy and illness. The artist will be present at the opening reception. \nThe exhibition presents for the first time a comparison between the widely exhibited and internationally acclaimed Loto Nero\, and her newest series Erosiva. The technique used in both series is the extremely rare and fascinating héliogravure au grain\, an ancient printing process dating back to the 19th century that allows a photographic image to be etched in low relief through various chemical processes on a copperplate. This very fine-grained technique can capture both the subtle nuances of grays and the depths of blacks from the original plate. This gives the prints a precious tactile quality\, prolonging and amplifying the creative gesture through its manual nature and making it almost permanent over time. \nThe 80 large-format black-and-white landscape shots of Loto Nero were conceived during the artist’s journey to Huangshan in eastern China. This solitary journey along steep staircases\, marked by ascesis and challenge\, was the beginning of a simultaneous detachment and rapprochement for the artist. It introduces a distancing from the world and its precariousness\, and a new and powerful form of spirituality that would later find its culmination and fulfillment in EROSIVA. \nLoto Nero represents pure wandering\, in the dual sense of both physicalroaming and the agonizing uncertainty of the mind or spirit. It is an emotionaland sentimental journey through physical obstacles\, that faintly echo thepsychological ones awaiting the protagonist\, an emblem of constant soulsearching\, and an invitation to believe in imminent rebirth. \nEROSIVA\, on the other hand\, is an ode to what is left inside us when everything collapses. It is an invitation to ponder on a topic that\, in our view\, has not yet been thoroughly addressed: the elusive relationship between female intimacy and illness. EROSIVA is from the contraction of two Italian words\, eros and corrosiva (corrosive). It is a series of 17 photographs that captures the bitter dissonance between how a woman perceives herself during thevarious stages of healing— fully erotic\, vibrant\, and alive —and how others see her\, as someone irreversibly marked by misfortune\, devoid of desire\, and separated from the rest of the world. \nCurated by Angelica Moschin.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/costanza-gastaldi-erosiva/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241011
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SUMMARY:Go Hung: zam1 m4 gat1 dou3 juk6
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present zam1 m4 gat1 dou3 juk6\, a solo show by Go Hung exploring HK homelessness. The exhibition will run from 13 Sep – 10 Oct 2024. There will be a panel discussion with charities ImpactHK and Society for Community Organization (SoCo) highlighting the current situation of homelessness in HK on Sat 21 Sep 2024 at 3 pm. \nThe exhibition title refers to the first part of the Cantonese proverb 針唔拮到肉唔知痛 (zam1 m4 gat1 dou3 juk6 m4 zi1 tung3). It means to not understand the difficulties of something until one must face it. Go Hung uses this to describe homelessness. You will never understand the hardship the homeless face until experiencing homelessness. In this exhibition\, Go Hung attempts to explore issues the homeless face\, tapping into his personal fear of becoming homeless and his observations of the homeless in Hong Kong. \nThe gallery façade has been boarded up to resemble the make-shift wooden and/or cardboard structures that form temporary shelters for the homeless in Kwun Tong Public Pier and elsewhere. Inside the gallery\, you will encounter a network of nest sculptures hanging from branches (Shelter)\, an installation of cardboard pillow sculptures (So.call Mobility)\, and feet on paper lining the walls (Cuddle). Each series of works refers to homelessness directly in some way. \nGo Hung used weaver birds’ nests as a reference for Shelter. There is a near-universal instinct across vastly different species that seeks for a home which provides if not a sense of belonging\, then at least shelter\, safety\, and security. Yet why is it so difficult for us humans? The shredded vinyl references the many property ads posted around the streets of Hong Kong. The fourteen Shelters hanging around the gallery correspond to the total number of temporary shelters recognized by the government for the homeless. These Shelters both refer to those temporary homes and the dreams of obtaining a home. \nSo.call Mobility (a pun on social mobility) is made up of 180 floating cardboard pillow sculptures that are staggered in 6 layers. The number 180 directly refers to the maximum number of days a street sleeper can stay at the temporary shelters before having to move out. Due to the exorbitant rent in Hong Kong\, most street sleepers are unable to find a home within 6 months and end up back on the streets. The distance between each layer varies\, the closer the layer is to the top\, the greater the gap is between layers\, reflecting the increasing lack of social mobility and widening gulf between the rich and poor. A pillow\, a good night’s sleep is a symbol for a home and security\, a luxury that is out of reach or ticking away in a 180-day countdown. \nCuddle is a series of feet painted in cement on paper. Each depicts a pair of feet facing the viewer as if the owner of the feet is lying down. To Go Hung\, a pair of feet is the symbol of being rooted\, the part of your body that is the most closely connected to the ground. Lacking a home\, the homeless often wander around to find a spot for temporary rest. As they are often on their feet\, ironically the homeless are the most connected to the ground but are unable to put down their roots and have the least sense of belonging. The positioning of the feet may look like someone\, but also refers to the bare feet of sleeping homeless. There is only one pair of feet\, hinting at the loneliness and isolation the homeless feel\, as they are excluded from society and intimacy. Alongside a home\, they lose their sense of belonging. \nGo Hung’s fear of becoming homeless is not as far from you as you think. Anyone could become the next homeless person. 針唔拮到肉唔知痛 (zam1 m4 gat1 dou3 juk6 m4 zi1 tung3). You will never understand the pain of being homeless until you’ve experienced it\, but we could try to imagine and sympathize a bit more.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/go-hung-zam1-m4-gat1-dou3-juk6/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Multimedia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240929
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SUMMARY:In the Matter of Color III
DESCRIPTION:Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present In the Matter of Color III. As a continuation of well-received Italian contemporary artists group exhibitions in Taiwan\, we are delighted to present Italian artistry in Hong Kong once again. \nCentered on the theme of color variability\, this exhibition brings together four prominent figures in Italian contemporary art: Turi Simeti\, Alberto Biasi\, Pino Pinelli\, and Natale Addamiano. These artists were active during the tumultuous time of the Italian post-war period in the 20th century\, yet they made audacious moves to meet new boundaries as new artistic movements emerged. Encompassing works spanning from the 1960s to recent years\, this exhibition invites viewers to probe the lesser-known aspect of Italian art. \nBorn in 1929 in Alcamo\, Sicily\, Turi Simeti is considered as a pioneering force in the Italian art scene\, championing a distinctive minimalist aesthetic that provokes audiences. Settled in Rome in 1958 where Simeti began his artistic career\, his early works inherited Alberto Burri\, a leading  figure of Arte Povera (the ‘Poor Art’ movement) and lauded for his use of diverse materials. Simeti befriended Burri while finding ingenuity in his own creation. Simeti’s composition are distinguished by nuanced expressions of oval shapes that dance across the monochromatic surfaces of canvases – black\, white\, grey\, yellow and occasionally\, a vibrant red. His work startlingly highlights the notion of minimalism and materiality\, emphasizing the physical presence of the artwork itself rather than an expression of the artist’s voice. In 1965\, Simeti participated in the exhibition Zero Avantgarde at Lucio Fontana Studio in Milan\, a testament to Simeti’s dedication of the oval motif. Over the subsequent years\, Turi Simeti played an active role in The Zero Group\, originated in Germany and can be defined as a reduction\, rudimentary presence of artistic form. Simeti is considered a progenitor of 20th and 21st Century Italian art. Simeti’s works have been showcased at renowned institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Further\, his works are part of the museum collection in various locations. Turi Simeti passed away in 2021 in Milan\, Italy. \nBorn in 1937 in Padua\, Alberto Biasi is a representative of Kinetic Art\, Programmed Art and Op Art. Praised for its elaborate precision and symmetry\, he delineates the phenomenon of optical distortion\, creating astounding works by PVC strips and painted designs. At the age of 22\, Biasi co-founded art collective Gruppo N (Gruppo Enne) with other contemporary artists\, positioning himself as one of the earliest pioneers in the realm of kinetic illusion. His first and one of the most recognized bodies of work\, Trama\, created in 1959\, are works of layered perforated papers\, cotton gauzes and metal wireslight\, when exposed to light and motion\, evoke a constellation-like effect that bewilder viewers’ sensation. Biasi’s work always encapsulates a collaborative ethos as he once said\, “I am a kind musical instrument manufacturer\, the viewer is the musician\, and the artwork is co-created by the artist and viewer.” This exhibition features numerous optical-dynamic works Biasi created during his formative years\, including the 1960s Trama to recent works resembling Ottico-dinamici (Optical-dynamic object). Biasi has partaken in many international exhibitions. Including the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1986\, the Quadriennale of Rome in 1972\, 1986\, and 2004\, as well as the São Paulo Biennale in 1971. His works could be found in collections of MoMA in New York\, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome\, and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. \nPino Pinelli was born in Catina in 1938 and passed away this April. Pinelli was inspired by forerunners of The Zero Group. From the very beginning\, Pinelli’s intention was to eliminate symbolic tropes in traditional painting\, with an exploration in dimensionality from the confines of flat surfaces. This period of his copious research resulted in a newfound way to interpret monochromy\, which propelled him to the forefront of the ‘Pittura Analitica (Analytical Painting)’ movement\, characterized by an extreme reductiveness\, and with ‘Pittura’ signifying craftsmanship\, these works also focus on the materiality in an analytical fashion. Pinelli has participated in many crucial exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale in 1986 and 1997\, the Quadriennale of Rome in 1986 and 2006. Additionally\, his works have been exhibited in the Musée d’Art Moderne Paris and the National Gallery Rome\, among others. \nNatale Addamiano was born in Bitetto (Bari) in 1943 and currently lives and works in Milan. He graduated from the Brera Academy in Milan in 1972. For the next three decades\, Addamiano taught painting at the Brera Art Academy\, all the while having ample opportunities to experiment lithography\, engraving and etching. From 1977 onwards\, Addamiano has been passionately devoted to ‘en plein air’ (outdoor painting)\, as he returned to nature\, creating works outdoors constitutes his oeuvre with a sense of strength and profundity. Addamaino garnered widespread acclaim with his Starry Skies series\, which he began to create in 2000. This series made its first appearance at Milan’s Dep Art Gallery in 2021\, revealing deep\, atmospheric paintings redolent of the poetic Romantic Era. Through his masterful grasp of chromatic variability\, Addamiano expressed his enthusiasm in making an implicitly gleeful approach in traditional painting. Addamiano has participated in many significant exhibitions and received numerous awards\, including the Triennale dell’Incisione at Milan’s Palazzo della Permanente in 1991 and the Biennale di Milano in 1994. To date\, he has held many significant solo and group exhibitions\, and his works are widely collected by international institutions and private collectors.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/in-the-matter-of-color-iii/
LOCATION:Whitestone Gallery\, 7-8/F\, H Queen’s\, 80 Queen’s Road Central\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design,Painting
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SUMMARY:Chan Sai Lok and Chui Pui Chee: Good Day\, Hollywood Road
DESCRIPTION:a|n Gallery and Novalis Art Design proudly present “Good Day\, Hollywood Road”\, featuring two esteemed Hong Kong artists\, Chan Sai Lok and Chui Pui Chee\, to explore the historical and cultural significance of Hong Kong through the lens of Hollywood Road\, an  iconic area known for its rich cultural and artistic heritage as well as its position as an art trading centre. \nThroughout their careers\, both Chan and Chui have dedicated themselves to reflecting the subtle cultural nuances of Hong Kong and its residents. They adopt a quiet yet powerful approach to presenting their subjects. Although their artistic techniques differ\, the works seamlessly converge\, collectively portraying multiple layers of Hong Kong’s cultural identity. The exhibition allows the audience to explore the delicate balance between modern and traditional artistic media.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/chan-sai-lok-and-chui-pui-chee-good-day-hollywood-road/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Painting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240721
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SUMMARY:Alessandro Busci: Smoking
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition is Alessandro Busci’s first solo exhibition in Asia\, supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. Busci generates delicate signs as a sapient calligrapher\, outlining dark flashes\, nocturnal lights\, hypnotic monochrome landscapes with difficult promise. A dark vision of the urban drama in the world. His paintings are full of gestures that prophesy the oily\, petroliferous worlds\, of atmospheres where hope persists only through some rare concession of a few touches of yellow or orange. \nSince 2002 Busci has been painting on iron or metal sheets\, dipped in acid solution to activate the oxidation process. While the rust is forming and spreading\, Busci works on the damp sheet using mainly acrylics and enamels and a Japanese calligraphy brush. \nIt is like working on a living material\, which has to be dominated or at least tended with the loving care of a gardener or shepherd. It has to be stopped here…and blocked there…and left to roam here. Some – with good reason – liken this procedure to action-painting. Some liken it to Zen and alchemy.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/alessandro-busci-smoking/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Painting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240616
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SUMMARY:Michele De Lucchi: The Room I’m In
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “The Room I’m In”\, a solo show by Michele De Lucchi supported by the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. In this exhibition\, Michele De Lucchi explores the complex interaction between human beings and the surrounding environment\, between the flow of past time and the liveliness of the present. He invites us to reflect on our ability to communicate and our constant effort to give meaning and value to everything around us. \nThe exhibition consists of almost thirty recently created works: ten small wooden sculptures divided into two distinctive series\,“Casa con gli abbaini”(House with Dormers) and “Padiglione con le gambe”(Pavilion with Legs)\, three bronze sculptures\, “Sasso in bronzo” (BronzeRock)\, sixteen paintings on paper\, and a lithographic work “Architetture ideografiche” (IdeographicArchitectures). Despite representing common objects such as simply shaped houses\, pavilions\, and rocks\, these works present unusual elements: the little houses are dotted with irregular dormers\, the small sheds rest on ashlar pillars\, the rocks cast in bronze lose the irregularity of the natural material\, adopting strong sculptural characteristics\, and the paintings\, likeall objects presented\, become almost surreal thanks to the vivacity of the chosen colours. \nFilled with alienating and original details\, these works reveal the intrinsic multiplicity of our perception because a house is not just a physical structure\, but a weave of objects\, narratives\, relationships\, and meanings constantly changing over time. De Lucchi focuses on the contemplation of everyday things\, transforming the banality of a common object into a symbolic figure. He finds inspiration in the repetition of the artistic gesture and the rigor of the creative process\, often retreating to the tranquil and isolated confines of his studio in Arona\, to build small monuments of daily life.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/michele-de-lucchi-the-room-im-in-2/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Sculpture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240512
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Francesco Lietti
DESCRIPTION:Francesco Lietti has been living in Hong Kong since early 2006 and his love of this vibrant\, eclectic city is immediately apparent in his works\, which derives from the mnemonic imagery of the artist\, who lives in symbiosis with the themes of travel and discovery. \nWhen first visiting Hong Kong in the summer of 2005\, the painter experienced an overwhelming sensation: fascinated by the variety of colours\, the rich smells\, and the plethora of images he was drawn to return and stay. This exciting metropolis is something you cannot just put into a frame: something would spill out; something would be missing; one can catch the details\, but he or she would never be able to capture the entire picture. The artist portrays this through simple and direct forms. He paints naïve visions that often have a humorous quality\, describing the city in an almost caricatured magnificence. Through the use of striking colours the painter captures the essence of Hong Kong’s famous harbour skyline and makes it his own. His paintings hover between reality and fantasy. Using strong blocks of paint to represent the buildings\, Lietti also includes smaller patches of textured colour\, which dance across the cityscape\, giving it that dream-like\, ephemeral quality. The artist works in acrylic and oils on canvas and also adds collage to give his paintings texture and depth. He then finishes his pieces with a thick\, glossy resin\, further enhancing the brightness of the colours.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/francesco-lietti/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Painting
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SUMMARY:Andrew Iacobucci: da dove sto chiamando
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “da dove sto chiamando”\, Italian artist Andrew Iacobucci’s first solo show in Asia supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. In these works\, the exploration delves around the limits and struggles of language. When thoughts need to be translated into something to be communicated and understood\, they have to shed some of their ambiguity and the most liminal aspects of meaning. \nLanguage is a code: to be understood it has to be shareable\, cleared from every kind of personal experience and limits in one’s communication skills. This inevitably leads to a loss\, or at least a simplification\, a process that we learn at school by gradually exploring language and its rules\, grammar and logic. Children make their first attempts at communication mostly through scribbles and drawings. All of these scribbles hold meaning\, now impossible to understand\, hidden behind those apparently chaotic forms. Those drawings are a form of language before the process of codification and thus\, more connected with the full range of perception and expression. A form of language that is formless\, susceptible to the deepest thoughts and instinct\, wildly more spontaneous. While we usually just scrap those scribbled papers\, here they are selected\, retraced using specific vectorial software\, composed\, and redrawn to become forms to explore\, finally stretched and embroidered by industrial sewing machines on large fabrics in bright colours. Echoing tapestries or flags\, humble scribbles become precious testimony of a language unknown.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/andrew-iacobucci-da-dove-sto-chiamando/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Multimedia,Painting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240121
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:For What It’s Worth: Ceramic Experimentations by Julie & Jesse
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “For What It’s Worth: Ceramic Experimentations by Julie & Jesse”. Rust\, used cardboard wrapper\, ceramic shards\, roadside saplings — these are all things that we come in contact with on a regular basis\, yet are so ordinary that we don’t usually register having seen them by the end of the day\, and may even want to remove them to tidy up a place. But for Julie & Jesse\, what are considered useless and unwanted to most are treasures to them. Each find becomes an opportunity to unpack stories across time and space\, hidden within the material. The duo’s eye for curiosity and investigative approach have not only driven their entire creative practice — it is how they make sense of the world. The new works presented in this exhibition are both documentation and fruition of their ceramic experimentations in the past decade. What they create is a testimony to their superb technical skills\, but it is always poetic and personal. \nIrony celebrates iron oxide — more commonly known as rust — by allowing it to grow uninhibited on porcelain\, creating a mesmerising abstract landscape in the process. Julie & Jesse actively cultivate iron oxide out of rusty metal pieces collected from a former military equipment factory in Jingdezhen and metal recyclers in Chai Wan\, Hong Kong. \nThe Unpacked series began in 2020 as part of Julie & Jesse’s reflection on their consumption habits during the pandemic years\, exploring the materials that could be extracted from their daily lives for creative purposes. One of the most ubiquitous items found in their studio and home was shredded cardboard fillers. Through extensive experimentation\, they successfully created ceramic ‘fossils’ of these fillers\, resembling the process of tree petrifications. \nWith Anomalous Artefacts\, Julie & Jesse created new hybrid creatures with broken ceramic pieces collected from Jingdezhen and Hong Kong\, inspired by the way archaeologists reconstruct historical artefacts using fragments. \nTaking Root originated as a contemplation on the relationship between nature and the city. Julie & Jesse have long been intrigued by the resilience of nature\, as it always finds a home in the most surprising places\, such as sewage pipes\, walls and pavements. To explore a new type of symbiotic relationship between humans and nature\, they have designed ceramic housing units for plants actively removed by city cleaners or displaced by monsoon weather.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/for-what-its-worth-ceramic-experimentations-by-julie-jesse/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Crafts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231017
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
CREATED:20231011T022013Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is delighted to present Radical Legacies\, an exhibition showcasing the legacies of Italian Radical Design with Gufram. The exhibition will showcase icons such as Bocca\, the giant red lips sofa\, Cactus\, the cactus-shaped hall tree\, and Pratone\, the seat that resembles a giant patch of grass. The exhibition will also coincide with the launch of Snarkitecture’s (studio by Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen) latest collection with Gufram\, The Sculpted Series\, in Hong Kong. \nItaly’s Radical Design movement emerged in the late 1960s and was influential till the late 1970s with three major centers of activity: Milan\, Florence\, and Turin. \nRadical Legacies spotlights Turin and the many experiments in industrial design that started with the birth of Gufram in 1966\, and its close collaboration with the Turin exponents of Radical Design\, a large group of designers\, artists\, and architects including Pietro Derossi\, Giorgio Ceretti\, Riccardo Rosso\, Studio 65\, artist Piero Gilardi\, Franco Mello\, and Guido Drocco. At the time\, Radical Design was fighting against established power structures in certain key areas: home\, city\, and education. Members were protesting against functionalism and established taste in design and architecture. Gufram’s expertise in the new materials of polyurethane foam and latex rubber coating allowed a break-through in design freedom\, facilitating the influence of pop art in furniture design.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/radical-legacies/
LOCATION:Liang Yi Museum\, 199 Hollywood Rd\, Sheung Wan\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design,Sculpture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230903
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Sex Be With You
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “Sex Be With You\,” a group show curated by Charmaine Tam featuring artists Batten and Kamp\, IV Chan\, Florence Lam\, and Lau Hong Lam. Sex is everywhere. We are surrounded by sex\, especially in this modern consumerist age\, where sex or the promise of it has been used to sell products through a near constant bombardment of imagery. The ready availability of online porn and other digital media has made the rampant consumption of sex possible. The proliferation of sexualisation in mainstream media has made it less taboo. Sex out of marriage is no longer frowned upon\, we are urged to celebrate our own sexuality. This is indeed a thing to be celebrated! And yet\, with sex becoming commonplace\, it seems to have led to an increase in the mindless consumption of it. More and more people are increasingly blind to the power of sex\, that in any act of sex\, power is being exerted on\, or being taken away from someone or something. Sex and power are inherently intertwined with each other. This exhibition is an invitation to both the audience and the artists to re-examine this relationship between sex and power that permeates our society. \nLau Hong Lam’s mezzotint series The Bee and The Butterfly explores the power dynamics in relationships based on the attachment styles of intimacy. The six prints interpret the fluidity of power and madness of obsession within intimacy. The work revolves around two Greek mythological deities of love and sexuality\, Eros and Anteros\, who represent the expression of love and the response of love respectively. Those who are struck by Eros’ golden arrow sink into unrequited love for others (or one might say a lustful obsession)\, while those who are struck by Anteros’ arrow respond to the love of others. Eros and Anteros are often portrayed as opposites\, but at the same time they cannot exist alone. Eros and Anteros are mirrors that complement and complete each other\, just as in an intimate relationship\, love needs to be an even match\, not a one-way projection or exertion of power. Pure love is a completely sensual thing\, it is the desire for sex. We are wounded by the golden arrow of Eros\, we fall in love with total insanity and sweet honey-like fantasies\, and at the same time we yearn for the reciprocation of love or sex. \nIn The Good\, the Bed and the Snuggly\, IV Chan creates a mise-en-scène of sex for the viewer to interpret and activate in their mind with their own fantasy. As we approach\, we are first greeted by the broken\, unhinged bed rail flung at us by the two figures who are so engrossed in violent sex\, they have broken the baby bed. The setting of the baby bed already lends a sense of taboo to the sexual act in question. IV Chan deliberately leaves the identities of the purple and green figures open to interpretation\, either of them could be male\, female\, genderless\, or even nonhuman. The roles of the figures are also not specified and could be engaged in taboos such as incest. The only thing that is clear is that they are engaged in all-consuming sex: green wrapping purple in an engulfing embrace\, purple pushing against green to the point where they both ooze out of the baby bed\, entrails and/or sexual organs flailing. As if within the sexual act they are so ravenous to join with the other\, that it is not enough\, and they spill over to encroach upon their surroundings. Stickers stuck throughout the baby bed with phrases like ‘Suck My Toe\,’ ‘Cry Louder\,’ and ‘Fresh Milk’ which start off as phrases associated with baby behaviour now take on a layer of sexual meaning\, reinforcing the taboo. Through these explorations\, The Good\, the Bed and the Snuggly highlights sex and power in various ways: the surrendering of the self as a surrender of power in sex\, transgressing the taboo in sex as an enactment of power\, the setting of what is taboo itself a reflection of the power exercised on the individual by society\, and the power involved in sex and fertility. \nThe relation between the power dynamics in sex and female fertility is foregrounded in Florence Lam’s Chicken\, Pork\, Beef and Fish. This series of four videos in which Florence performs ‘table-top action poetry’ was inspired by feminist-vegetarian author Carol J. Adams’ The Sexual Politics of Meat\, which explores the relationship between meat eating and patriarchal power. Florence highlights the systematic exploitation of female fertility with these works\, each ‘menu item’ fraught with symbols and actions that recall female fertility in a familiar but uncanny manner. All four videos feature Florence performing a series of actions on a traditional white tablecloth setting which directly references the act of eating and recalls Adams’ parallel drawn between meat eating and patriarchal power. Florence involves her own body in all four ‘tabletop action poetries.’ The actions stem from her own experience of male/female power dynamics and female fertility through the lens of The Sexual Politics of Meat. These works comment on the lost sexual power in female fertility which is taken for granted in both the human and animal world. \nBatten and Kamp are in both a creative and romantic partnership. Sex Tape is\, in a nutshell\, a literal sex tape of Batten and Kamp filming themselves having sex. The sex tape is then encoded in the USB drive which is in turn encased within a glass and stainless-steel coffee table. The structure of the table is made so that the USB and sex tape is inaccessible unless the collector chooses to destroy the artwork. Aesthetically\, the table appears cold\, clinical even\, reminiscent of sci-fi\, futuristic furniture with nothing to hint of the human\, carnal nature of the content contained inside. And so\, what one might expect from a ‘sex tape\,’ an exploration of sex reflecting the power dynamics within the relationship is instead turned towards the audience. In the act of effectively withholding their sex tape from the audience\, Batten and Kamp has chosen to direct the query of sex and power dynamics externally\, one of power between the artist and the audience/collector. In withholding the sex tape from the audience/collector Batten and Kamp exerts power in preventing the consumption of a piece of themselves and their relationship\, but also in enticing and teasing the audience/collector with the conceptual promise of sex. It questions the power dynamic between artist/audience/collector\, and comments on the phenomenon where the audience wants more than what the artist would like to give.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/sex-be-with-you/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Multimedia,Photography,Sculpture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230312
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SUMMARY:Riccardo TEN Colombo: DIS-PLAY
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present “DIS-PLAY\,” the first solo exhibition of Italian artist Riccardo TEN Colombo in Asia\, supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong. The exhibition will showcase TEN’s new project “Cromoblock”. \nPlaying allows us to create a spontaneous relationship with objects\, to transform their use\, meaning and form\, to unite the real with the imaginary\, to create a connection with the world of childhood and to prefigure our future. This is how Riccardo “TEN” Colombo combines craftsmanship with industrial production\, collective art with individual art through play within the works of the “Cromoblock” series. TEN chooses an aesthetic that “creates a bridge” between the avant-gardes of the twentieth century and the metaverse. In fact\, on the one hand these works involuntarily take us back to those moments of childhood when we lay on a carpet composing shapes and imagining fantastic worlds (as written by critic Ilaria Bignotti). On the other hand\, they connect to a visual tradition that starts from constructivism and cubism\, passes through the optical-kinetic art of the sixties and reaches contemporary graffiti and the most recent crypto art.\nIn these works\, Riccardo TEN Colombo\, a Turin-based artist who trained in the field of street art and the hip hop and punk culture of the 1990s\, stages the game. He arranges it in the limited area of a board\, and offers it to the spectator\, giving them the opportunity to scatter it and put it back together. TEN creates an engaging artistic experience\, as suggested by the title of his exhibition “DIS-PLAY” organized at the Novalis gallery in Hong Kong. \n“Cromoblock” is composed of metallic triangles on magnetic boards\, whose position can be changed by both the author and the collector\, in a continuous evolution of compositional possibilities. Influenced by the visual research of some optical artists\, including Vasarely and members of the GRAV group. TEN Colombo refers to the gestalt theories of form psychology\, exploring how what we perceive is not just the result of individual images\, but of an overall structure that allows us to understand form as a whole\, just like when we listen to a melody and can’t easily distinguish individual notes that make it up. TEN Colombo’s Cromoblock works in the same way: at first glance we see images\, solid and colorful geometric shapes that emerge from a black background\, three- dimensional bodies that float in space\, coming towards us. Only after a deeper analysis do we discover that the works are not unique blocks\, but compositions of multiple triangular shapes combined. \nWe are witnessing a democratization of art\, and its transformation into a social experience\, according to research that characterizes not only “Cromoblock”\, but also all of TEN Colombo’s production\, including his graphic and street art works. As the artist writes: “The pieces of Cromoblock\, which can be moved and modified on the board\, represent my vision of urban art that is constantly evolving. The walls of the cities are boards available to the community where nothing is permanent and the real work is constantly changing\, composed of layers of paint and interventions of different people who participate in the creative process. For this reason\, it is impossible to capture street art\, but it becomes essential to grasp its transient and changeable essence.” \nThis achieved perfection of form takes us back to a feeling of reverential respect where the works cannot be touched but only admired from afar. On the other hand\, the artist prompts us to question our patterns\, to rethink our perceptions\, to feel like an active part of that whole that is our contemporary era.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/riccardo-ten-colombo-dis-play/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221223
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:The Other Side of La Dolce Vita: Pier Paolo Pasolini with Tazio Secchiaroli in the Locations of Accattone
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is delighted to present the exhibition ‘The Other Side of La Dolce Vita: Pier Paolo Pasolini with Tazio Secchiaroli in the locations of Accattone. \nThis exhibition is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong under a series of programmes celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini and is part of the Italia Mia Festival. \nIn 1960\, Pier Paolo Pasolini decided to make his first film depicting the urban underclass of Rome\, as opposed to the glitz and glamour depicted in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Together with Tazio Secchiaroli as photographer\, they set out scouting the locations that will shape the film Accattone. The exhibition aims to bring together the two sides of Rome\, showing the contradictions of a society that was heading towards an economic boom. Photographs by Tazio Secchiaroli\, mostly unpublished\, for inspections and filming are juxtaposed with his best-known photographs\, those who made him famous as the first of the paparazzi\, for the photographs stolen in Via Veneto. \nAlone and with Pasolini he goes in search of the most suitable and descriptive glimpses of the Roman villages\, creating a reportage of over 150 photographs that today are urban\, architectural\, and social evidence of Rome. Not simple photographs for locations\, but an analytical reportage where the photographer’s gaze lingers on the population living on the street: children\, women\, a few men in empty and sunny streets. Shreds of walls\, stories\, lives. A sort of counterpoint to the glittering and glamorous life of Via Veneto\, Cinecittà\, of gossip\, but seen by the same photographer who made the sweet Roman nightlife famous. \nIn the photographs taken for Pasolini\, the quickness of the stolen shot in via Veneto is left aside\, to observe the infamous streets\, the new apartment blocks of the boroughs where the city adjoins the countryside\, the expressive faces of its people. Tazio Secchiaroli’s Lambretta scooter brings him through the new streets of Rome\, where shacks alternate frequently illegal small houses\, to memories of the countryside such as gates of an estate\, a farmhouse: Pigneto\, Torpignattara\, via Casilina. Children playing in the streets\, women looking on them at the entrance\, swift nocturnal visons. These are the areas where Pasolini will set his Accattone\, a story of a life on the margins\, of a “protector’\, a man who survives by exploiting a young girl in prostitution\, unredeemable from a rough life. The film is so close to reality that it is nearly impossible to distinguish footage from daily life. Pasolini wants the faces\, the gestures\, the surroundings to be just as they are in real life: squalid\, often decaying. \nTazio’s understanding of his city\, its people\, allows us today\, sixty years later\, to have an all-rounded testimony of the Roman reality between the 1950s and 1960s. It is highlighted by the strident juxtaposition between center and periphery\, as seen through Secchiaroli’s acute and disillusioned eye\, with his two different photographic approaches: on the one hand his anthropologic description\, sought by Pasolini’s long sequence shots\, on the other\, the rapid blinding flashes at night to capture celebrities deformed in quick close ups that popular magazines pay in weight of gold.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/the-other-side-of-la-dolce-vita-pier-paolo-pasolini-with-tazio-secchiaroli-in-the-locations-of-accattone/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221115
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Sylvan Reliquary
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is delighted to present Sylvan Reliquary\, a solo photography exhibition by Italian artist Costanza Gastaldi (b. 1993). This will be her second solo exhibition in Asia. \nAccording to visual artist Costanza Gastaldi\, optics is not restricted to just photography as its only proof of knowledge. In her new series “Sylvan Reliquary” she expresses and reinforces her statement through the power of imagination\, the real touchstone between capturing reality (proving it) and experiencing it. \nThis new photographic series is the continuation of “Géographie Sentimentale”\, 2013 and “Loto Nero”\, 2018. It comprises fifteen shots articulated through a lush verdant scenery meeting halfway between the fantasized landscapes and the one journeyed in. In such a quest for the existential\, the wandering of the artist puts forward on one hand the archetype of creation and death and on another\, melancholia. \nThese inseparable themes found in art history form a bridge between the photographer and the viewer. It is by projecting her own imagination that she seeks to entice the visitor and offers to this viewer\, at the end of his journey\, through the work\, the possibility to acquire autonomy and position himself freely to these mysteries that she offers: \n“The light falls. The Silent Forest is full of emotions… Protected by the darkness\, the ‘tree-bodies’ take cramped positions. Halfway between the craft of suffering and positions of love\, they mingle\, intertwine\, overlap to finally unite as if in an aid to resistance. In this marvellous intrigue\, in this abandonment\, emerges the will to mix\, this pursuit for exchange\, that keeps persisting despite the reality of finitude.” \nIn her work\, Costanza Gastaldi explores “our own sentimental geography”. Between darkness and light\, she sculpts with prowess the landscapes of the mind’s spirit. Oneirism and reality converse and highlight the complexities of our emotions. \nIn this new monographic exhibition\, the artist invites us once again to move away painstakingly from the modest and adulterated tones to bewitch us in richness in a world teeming with details. The smoky nuances entice us and transform the artworks into true objects of desire. It is in a vast grayscale field of the noble black that the most significant elements in her craft materialize. \nHer work not only pushes us into self-reflection but also opens vast trails of exploration around broad subjects on aesthetics\, politics and metaphysics linked to the relationship that man has with nature.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/sylvan-reliquary/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221007
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Memphis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition of works by the Memphis Group. The Memphis Group was an Italian design movement founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1981 alongside Michele de Lucchi\, Aldo Cibic\, Matteo Thun\, Marco Zanini\, Martine Bedin\, Nathalie Du Pasquier\, and George Sowden. Active between 1981 and 1988\, the Memphis Group defined ‘80s aesthetics and greatly revolutionised the design world. \nMemphis sought to rebel against the ‘uniform panorama of good taste’ of the time\, where the principle ‘form follows function’ reigned supreme. With Memphis\, design has been liberated from rationality\, and enters the realm of poetry. Form no longer had to follow function. Design could be loud\, colourful\, whimsical\, with clashing patterns. Objects were liberated from function and instead became a visual object rather than just a tool or piece of furniture. \nThe pieces shown by the Memphis Group and their international collaborators were shocking: mixing elegance and kitsch\, playing with absurd and irrational shapes\, using plastic laminates with patterns that simulate precious materials\, but most of all it introduced the pleasure of play into the rational language of industrial production. Love it or hate it\, it rapidly amassed public and press attention worldwide\, and came to define the aesthetics of the ‘80s. More importantly\, it expanded the boundaries of design\, emphasizing the expressive possibilities of design as a vehicle of communication\, rather than just one of utilitarian function.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/memphis-exhibition/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220821
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
CREATED:20220629T111204Z
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SUMMARY:Ragpickers
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is delighted to present a group show curated by Charmaine Tam. \nThe waste we discard and shut out from our minds lingers and haunts us. Walter Benjamin urges us to look seriously at what we have disposed of and the art of disposal itself. A ragpicker is a materialist historian who examines what is regarded as ‘waste’ in the present to piece together the history of a collective cultural identity. What we have abandoned still shapes us without us realising\, much like how waste haunts us even after its disposal. In fact\, the psychological phenomenon that occurs during the act of disposal draws a parallel with psychological trauma. When we throw something away\, it ceases to exist in our minds\, and yet it is physically still there\, rotting away. Similarly\, some may treat psychological trauma by blocking the traumatic memories\, by ‘disposing’ of them\, and yet they are still there in their minds festering\, an ‘invisible’ menace. Artists perform as ragpickers of their own waste\, handling memories\, relationships\, and emotions that they have not come to terms with. Waste thus also allows artists to construct their personal histories. \nThis exhibition presents three ragpickers in Sharu Sikdar\, Go Hung\, and Wong Chun Kit Louis.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/ragpickers/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Multimedia,Sculpture,Street Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220614
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
CREATED:20220609T081637Z
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SUMMARY:UMEDA MASANORI
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Japanese designer Umeda Masanori in Hong Kong. \nThe exhibition presents a chance to view internationally renowned designer Umeda Masanori’s work across his career\, including the rarely exhibited TAWARAYA\, an icon of the Memphis Group in 1981. As a pioneering and dexterous designer\, Umeda’s work crosses all sorts of boundaries before it became a common practice\, from blurring the lines of furniture\, system\, and space via the Mobile Supply System and TAWARAYA to bridging art and design through the sculptural GETSUEN. \nHis creations are outlandish yet functional\, mischievous yet spiritual\, and referential of history but also responding to relevant social conditions. One thing that has been present in his creative process is his keen observations of the human experience. Despite the changes in form\, Umeda’s work has always been derived from life\, be it his own lived experience\, appreciation of both the historical and the contemporary\, love for high and low brow cultures\, or a respect for nature. With a multi-disciplinary and international training\, Umeda has always forged his own path\, creating designs that are true to himself. Until today\, he continues to be inspired by life\, drawing and designing daily with a direct attitude and quirky humour.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/umeda-masanori/
LOCATION:Liang Yi Museum\, 199 Hollywood Rd\, Sheung Wan\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design
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ORGANIZER;CN="Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery":MAILTO:info@novalisartdesign.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220529
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Jodice / Canova
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, in conjunction with the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and China\, the Italy-China Year of Culture and Tourism was announced and finally takes place in 2022\, postponed by the pandemic. 2022 also marks the 200th anniversary of Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova’s (1757 – 1822) death. For this occasion\, Novalis Art Design is delighted to host the travelling exhibition Jodice/Canova\, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong\, after various stops in Bassano del Grappa\, Milan\, Arezzo\, Mexico City and San Marino\, which will then travel to Shanghai later this year. \nJodice/Canova puts in dialogue two Italian artists from different eras: one of the greatest sculptors of the European Neoclassicism and one of the major interpreters of Italian and International contemporary photography; a union that combines the ideal and real\, body and soul\, matter and image. \nMimmo Jodice interprets 17 sculptures of Canova with 52 shots\, four or five of which dedicated to each work of art. He selects glimpses\, points of view\, keeping a scale of 1:1 between the sculptural detail in focus and the dimension of the photographic print. He searches for a visceral connection with Canova\, with his vision\, his creative process and in approaching the sculptures he revives the natural body\, he exalts the softness of the flesh\, bringing them back to life. Jodice recounts in an interview an aspect about Canova that had particularly fascinated him: when the artist presented the finished works to his commissioners\, it is said he would do it in the dark and with just the light of a candle he would trace the shapes of the sculptures\, exalting their natural beauty. In the same way Jodice tries to return this close-up vision and the “carnal” to the spectator\, with a masterful placement of light sources and an attentive research of chiaroscuro tones («Rai News»\, 2018). \nIn the photographs\, the works of Jodice and Canova really become a duo\, a pairing and mirroring of two great artists that together crystallize the ability of art to be eternally emotional.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/jodice-canova/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Sculpture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220501
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Natura Morta\, Oggetti Vivi
DESCRIPTION:Natura Morta\, Oggetti Vivi translates from Italian to ‘Still Life\, Living Objects.Though ‘Natura Morta’ is the Italian term for ‘Still Life’\, it literally translates to ‘dead nature\,’ referring to the tranquil and silent sense of the word ‘morte’. \nThe title was chosen for this exhibition which features historic still life works on paper by Giorgio Morandi and Picasso\, alongside lively contemporary design objects that exist within the same space as us\, and thus are ‘living’ in real time\, as opposed to the objects depicted in still lives\, forever frozen in the time and space they were captured in. The ‘dead’ objects are silent and tranquil\, constant\, and unchanging within the picture frame. The ‘living’ objects may still change over time\, a different face under each interplay of light and shadow\, placement\, or traces\, marks gained from loving usage\, wear and tear. Both converge in a visual conversation on objects\, how we view them\, and how we use them.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/natura-morta-oggetti-vivi/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design,Painting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
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SUMMARY:Francesco Carozza: Gesture\, Form\, & Colour
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Francesco Carozza in Asia with support from the Italian Cultural Institute – Hong Kong. “Colour provokes a psychic vibration”\, wrote Wassily Kandinsky in the chapter on The language of form and colour in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1910). This “vibration” can also be found in the works of Francesco Carozza: it is a spiritual tension\, the pure power of colour and material.  \nFrancesco’s style is instantly recognisable. His paintings\, simple in their immediacy\, conceal the artist’s unceasing exploration and connection with the international pictorial tradition of the 20th and 21st centuries.  \nRepetition and variation are also key concepts in 20th-century architecture and art. Think how important it was for the exponents of Pop Art\, whose paintings explore the ever-present tension between the potential of reproduction without limits and the uniqueness of the works\, which can never be repeated. In the same way\, Francesco Carozza reproduces a formal schema\, using the same movements but creating unique works that not even the artist himself can repeat\, as they are the result of an artistic process that is partially determined by chance. \nFrancesco’s approach is ritualistic\, almost obsessive. His creative gestures are reiterated on each canvas\, in a constant search for the repetition and variation of the elements of painting: gesture\, form and colour.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/francesco-carozza-gesture-form-colour/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Painting
ORGANIZER;CN="Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery":MAILTO:info@novalisartdesign.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220123
DTSTAMP:20260521T090750
CREATED:20211130T094134Z
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SUMMARY:ELSEWHERE
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Art Design is pleased to present Elsewhere\, a new collection by design duo Batten and Kamp. When designing the pieces in this collection\, Batten and Kamp tried to imagine them from an alternative universe\, a world much like our own but just slightly different. Perhaps created by an alien race in a place where gravity\, or materiality or memories work differently. \nThis collection is about exploring the concept of ‘Elsewhere’\, of the many layers and connotations this word conjures up. There are many ‘elsewheres’ hidden within this exhibition. The main principle being that even though we project ourselves to a time or place to get away from the present\, we always end up circling back to it. The word itself implies a sense of escapism. We want to run from the problems of our present and hence we go to this hypothetical fictional place that we conjure up. In a sense science fiction also presents a thought experiment to get away from present problems\, and yet\, the imagined world is never detached from the contemporary as it is an attempt to imagine solutions to current problems. We might also choose to conjure up an ‘elsewhere’ from our memories\, a place from the past and yet\, details are always blurry\, never completely accurate\, tinted by nostalgia. Those places from the past too\, are to an extent imagined places\, tinted by our current mood or outlook within our perspective. Hence\, ‘elsewhere’ is a projection that always ends up circling back to present day\, our here and now. \nAs part of the BODW CityProg\, we will be hosting guided tours on the 4 December 2021\, 3 – 6 pm. Interested parties please sign up on the event page linked here.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/elsewhere/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Design,Sculpture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211128
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SUMMARY:Venetian Murano Glass
DESCRIPTION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery is pleased to present ‘Venetian Murano Glass\,’ an exhibition that showcases the modern artistry of Murano glass with pieces from renowned and historic Murano glassworks: Venini and Berengo Studio. There\, the centuries-old tradition of Venetian Murano glass craftsmanship is combined with innovative techniques and creative sensibilities through collaboration with notable artists and designers. \nThese include works by historic design masters Ettore Sottsass\, Alessandro Mendini\, and artists such as Flo Perkins\, Richard Jolley\, and Juan Ripollés.  \nThis exhibition is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of Hong Kong and is part of Italia Mia Festival.
URL:https://cultureplus.asia/event/venetian-murano-glass/
LOCATION:Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery\, 197 Hollywood Road\, Central and Western\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Crafts,Design,Sculpture
ORGANIZER;CN="Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery":MAILTO:info@novalisartdesign.com
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