Gallery JEEUM is pleased to present Hong Kong based artist Yihong Hsu’s exhibition titled ‘Co Existence’. Yihong’s paintings uses flowers and other nature’s elements as characters to depict stories. Stories from everyday life, her own experiences, feelings and encounters are told through characteristics of flowers. Everything that happens in human life also happens in nature – competition, struggles, sustainability, reproduction, etc. This exhibition is inspired by the most recent covid-19 situation. She expresses our natural longing to be together and how precious that is.

An antidote to impermanence” – Isamu Noguchi, 1968, on the role of stone and sculpture in the electronic era. A Pursuit of Place exhibits sculptural furniture by design art duo Batten and Kamp, alongside works by Son Il and Beak Jin Ki. The artworks on show explore notions of permanence, place and connection. The creation of each piece begins with first finding stones in nature and studying them in their studio. Accompanying metal and glass components are then designed in response to the natural shapes of the stone and produced in collaboration with local sifu.

We are representing six photographers at this exhibition. Many different types of photos including landscape, abstract and lighting will be shown. With the theme of “Co-existence”, all different photographers will show their own identity and harmony with each other. The artists’ invites viewers to discover a range of emotions and a creation of new images.

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For her exhibition “Free Money”, the artist has produced 5 large works on paper reflecting on the Straits Settlement copper piece circulated by the British East India Company through regions of Southeast Asia established as outposts during and after the second Opium War. These territories include what are now parts of Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. In an effort to gain control over the export of Opium, while maintaining a monopoly on the narcotic industry it created in the region, The British Empire began a crusade of conquest that benefited its status as a global partner in trade. The adaptation of Feudal labor methods at the peak of the Industrial Revolution permitted the tycoons of trade to yield enormous profits while establishing a sub-caste of workers dependent on the corporation’s success. While the East India Company experienced enormous growth and contributed greatly to the expansion of the global economy, like modern mega-corporations it too fell in debt to the Crown, resulting in the first massive government bailout of a multinational operation that had become too big to fail.

We are pleased to announce a new chapter at Ora-Ora, with a show by Finnish artist Juri Markkula at our new space at Soho 189. This show celebrates the hybrid of the digital world with the physical world through an elaborated representation of natural beauty.

Juri Markkula is an artist who makes the industrial and the technological beautiful, turning chemicals into art. Often getting up in the middle of the night to tend to machines that fire his projects, he is an artist who brings an obsessional detail-orientation, producing lovingly rendered abstract surfaces which call to mind objects of a hyper-natural essence.

The intensity of his work in relief, where painted surfaces project forward at us from multiple angles, can be overwhelming. Works such as Carmin Ground from his RGB Ground series, the art pieces appear in different sizes, and call to mind leaves and grass in a magnified, brittle state which serves to create an altered sense of what is natural, what is real.

Markkula applies his unique creative process, which includes a 360 high-resolution scanning system and a custom built digital sculpting system, to celebrate the pure beauty of the ground he sees every day in the rural area of Sweden where he resides. His RGB series is an elaborated representation of nature, with the forms synthetically bolder and digitally amplified.

RGB (Red Green Blue) refers to the additive colour system that is used in every digital screen and video equipment. Markkula purposely chooses these three vibrant artificial colours to create his abstracted beauty. His artworks become this hybrid of the digital world with the physical world.

As Markkula explained: “Well it’s about how I think RGB series work. They seem to be enlightened like a screen. To me, the colour is the surface, the interface to connect with spectators and induce emotions.”

Ora-Ora is pleased to present Hard Edge, an exhibition of works by Hangzhou-based artist Peng Jian. On view from September 24 through October 24, the exhibition features 11 still-life works from a new chapter in the artist’s continuous exploration of the intersection between the techniques of Western and Chinese art. Through harmonizing both of their aesthetics, Peng Jian is able to subvert our expectations of Chinese literati painting. By abandoning the traditional subject matter of flowers, birds, and landscapes, Peng Jian turns towards everyday objects, like glass bottles and mechanical parts, to focus on the personal connections we have with them. These objects have been super-imposed and condensed, producing blocks of colours and powerful figurative contours that reveal their most rudimental form. As the artist explains, “The objects I portray in my paintings are things I have seen and touched in my life. They must have a sense of existence to me. The bottle in the painting, although it is not a classic form, embodies the pureness and simplicity of contemporary art, while incorporating the refined atmosphere of traditional Chinese Song painting”.

AISHONANZUKA Hong Kong is please to announce a group exhibition “The Brand New Doors : Contemporary Landscape”, a three artists group exhibition by Eric Shaw & Yoon Hyup from New York and Hiroki Tsukuda from Tokyo. The exhibition will be on view from July 18th to August 15th, 2020.

Eric Shaw was born in 1983 in New York, where he lives and works. His works are inspired by various graphic designs, logos and signs seen all over the city, and his work is a creation of images he has seen, which he combines and continuously alter and reconstruct. He transforms the sceneries we see every day into a hybrid abstract expression by moving between reality and digital and repeatedly moderating the urban environment.

Yoon Hyup was born in South Korea in 1982. He is a self-taught painter and has been working since early 2000 with murals and live paintings. In his work, Yoon freely uses lines and dots to draw a minimalistic landscape from a unique perspective. Components of various cultures, he has experienced, are strongly reflected in his works. The rhythm & improvisation in music, the flexibility & radical perspective in street culture are some of the creative inputs that transform into lines, dots, “rhythms” and colors in his works. A combination of these elements powers the creation of unique abstract paintings.

Hiroki Tsukuda was born in Kagawa, Japan in 1978, and works in Tokyo. In recent years he has received increasing international acclaim with numerous solo exhibitions including Monolog in the Doom, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 2019; 199X Storm Garden, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2019; 199X, Nanzuka, Tokyo, 2018; Hour of Excavation, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany, 2017, A large scale work was recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is included in private and public collections worldwide. Working in the realms of drawing and digital collage, Tsukuda creates multi-dimensional pictures by compositing a profusion of found and created images and coding them with computerized characters and cryptic hieroglyphics. The resulting images appear in states of controlled chaos and organic mutation, edging on a pictorial language that merges cyberpunk fantasy and real-life space exploration.

In this exhibition, the issues of social situation seen from the perspective of people living in both contemporary and mixed reality as well as cyber spaces in modern society which is clearly shown through their artworks.

AISHONANZUKA is please to announce a solo exhibition of Spanish artist Julio Anaya Cabanding “after 1881”, which will be Cabanding first exhibition in Hong Kong.

Cabanding was born in Malaga, Spain in 1987. He lives and works in Malaga. In recent years, his works have attracted a great deal of attention for its realistic expression of classical paintings drawn on the street wall with the frame. His entry into the streets is described not as a reaction or criticism to society, but as an effort to show respect for the masters, their works, or the region. The reason why he uses found objects such as street walls, worn-out wooden boards and cardboard boxes are to supports his concepts and strengthen connections to the region or locals.

At the same time, this unique expression that allows viewers to experience historically important works that can only be seen in museums in a completely different place or atmosphere is new to the works themselves stored in history. It will shine a nice spotlight and shine in the modern style. While helping us to bring out the “diversity of interpretation” that art originally has and give us from the fixed history and interpretation of the museum, and to provide us with a fresh interpretation forever. On the other hand, it can be said that it is an expression that has a great influence on the original work itself.

In this exhibition entitled “AFTER 1881”, starting with Picasso, who was from Malaga and so as the artist himself. The works of masters of modern artists are seen as his works such as Georges Braque, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Tolouse Lautrec, and Claude Monet, which you may have seen their works in book. It is unfortunate that the artist cannot attend the opening due to COVID-19, however we will look forward to your visit from Friday, 30th.

The focal point of the showcase, the video and installation Life as Data from 2014 is part of a series of works which announced a lot of today’s reality. In this video work, a group of French mathematicians attempt to predict the love dynamics of a group of Canadians through algorithmic formulas, a method now commonly used to track consumer choices and preferences, both online and offline. Since the pandemic, our life has moved further into the digital world, creating new systems and new hierarchies, a phenomenon that Beloufa has always been interested in, with projects such as his recent website ‘screen-talk.com’, adapted from a film originally shot in 2014, the Screen Talk series depicts a world with a precursory vision and an offbeat tone. Additionally, these projects are an exploratory look at a new model of producing artistic work with an online distribution with major partners such as K11 Art Foundation.