Hong Kong Corner Houses: Photo Exhibition By Michael Wolf
Visual Arts
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Description
Michael abstractly express the crowdedness of modern city architecture and the blurred distinction between private and public living spaces in his projects. In Hong Kong Corner Houses, he continues with his visual quest for the overlooked and underappreciated urban phenomena that give a city its special character. This time, he draws attention to Hong Kong’s urban corners and buildings that are often inconspicuous amid the high-rise, high-density urban clutter of Hong Kong. These ordinary residential-commercial buildings of ’50s and ’60s vintage represent the expression of local Chinese pragmatism and expediency in the economic austerity of early postwar decades. The photographic presentation captures the inherent paradoxes of their architectural character: the quiet prominence, attractive banality, and tectonic chaos that give urban Hong Kong its endearing quality.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2010" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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