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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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