Solo Exhibitions

Tomas Laurenzo: Smile

Tomas Laurenzo: Smile

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Available on 9 -13 September 2020

 

Smile, is a mixed-media installation consisting of a screen situated in a black box, mounted on the wall. The screen is black. However, when an interactor smiles at the installation, the drone-footage of the ruins of Gaza, digitally slowed-down by the artist, fades in. If the interactor stops smiling, the video stops. It only plays when the interactor widely smiles at it.

The installation reflects on the construction of a spectacle from otherwise dramatic news, as well as reflecting on the otherness and dehumanization of war.

The piece also explores on the power asymmetries that technology crystallises where spectators are forced to surrender to the imposed narratives. The piece aims to provide with a reflection on the aesthetics of our relationship with it, while simultaneously showcasing the advancements in computer vision and human-computer interaction.

 

 

 

 

CREDIT:

Artist: Tomas LAURENZO 

http://laurenzo.net  

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Max Hattler: Receptive Rhythms

Max Hattler: Receptive Rhythms

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RECEPTIVE RHYTHMS is the title of a well-balanced juxtaposition of three recent works by video artist Max Hattler. All three videos play in different ways with symmetries, with repetitions, with alienations, with breaks and with counterpoints. 

The two-channel video ALL ROT (2015/2019) makes the beauty of the transient, the ephemeral visible using the example of a miniature golf course. CONCRETE ABSTRACTION: ROAD TRIPTYCH (2019) shows on three large monitors the street as canvas and the structure of living traffic as wall-filling snapshots. The nine-minute experimental animation SERIAL PARALLELS (2019) depicts the surfaces of Hong Kong’s highrise architecture in an original way. The fast cut and skillful repetition takes up the perspective of a celluloid film and applies the technique of film animation to the photographic image.

All works deal with repetition and rhythm in different ways. They are ornamental and abstract at the same time. To what extent viewers rediscover the motifs used in the outside world is the challenge of receiving what they perceive: RECEPTIVE RHYTHMS.

 

Concrete Abstraction: Road Triptych, 2019

3-channel video, HD, 4 min (loop)

Director: Max Hattler

Animation: CHAN King Lam Osmond, Hinyi CHEUK, YU Ka Man Carmen, Helen CHOW, KWAN Tsz Ching Jenny, Aurelia Giovanni LAKSMANA, Marvin HAUCK, ZHANG  Riwen

Photography: Alexandra WOERMANN, Max HATTLER, ZHANG Riwen

Editing: Max HATTLER, ZHANG Riwen

Sound: Eduardo NOYA

This work was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Project No. 21609017)

 

Serial Parallels, 2019

Multi-screen video installation, HD, lengths variable (loops)

Director: Max HATTLER

Production: Relentless Melt

Production management: Max HHATTLER, Iresa CHO

Animation: ZHANG Riwen, Iresa CHO

Photography: Iresa CHO, ZHANG Riwen, Max HATTLER

Editing: Max HATTLER

Sound: David KAMP

Additional sound: Sky KUNG

Sound research: James BANBURY

This work was supported by Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, a project grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and a grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Project No. 21609017)

 

All Rot

2015

Split-screen video, HD

4 min (loop)

Director: Max HATTLER 

Animation: Max HATTLER, Christopher MACFARLANE

Sound: Matthias KISPERT 

This work was devised during a Directional Forces artist residency at ArToll Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany.

 

CREDITS:
Artists: Max HATTLER
Curator: Harald KRAEMER
Organized by: Goethe-Institut Hong Kong
Venue: Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio

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Tobias Klein: Metamorphosis or Confrontation

Tobias Klein: Metamorphosis or Confrontation

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6 minutes 28 seconds, 24/7 streaming
Available on 9 -13 September 2020

 

This film is a short documentary of the solo exhibition Metamorphosis or Confrontation of the German artist Tobias Klein at the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery. The documentary is structured as the exhibition in four parts with an introduction. Bones, Masks, Mutations, and Forces are the chapters and provide a detailed insight into the various curatorial strategies – making the diversity in the artist’s work visible. A chamber of curiosities, an experience in a virtual environment, different aspects of mutations and the juxtaposition of traditional Chinese and digital craftsmanship are the components of this exhibition and its documentation.

 

 

CREDITS:
Artist: Tobias KLEIN
Curator: Harald KRAEMER
Museum Director: Florian KNOTHE 
Voice-over: Harald KRAEMER, Florian KNOTHE  
Cinematographers: Louis LEE, Machina XING
Photographer: Tobias KLEIN
Editor: Machina XING 
Sound Engineer: CHAN Cheuk Wah Charles 
Translation: HONG Rae 
Production Coordinator: Daniel LIU
Supported by: 
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Museum Society School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong 
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
© / Contact: Dr. Tobias KLEIN  office@kleintobias.com
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Maurice Benayoun: Value of Values

Maurice Benayoun: Value of Values

5 minutes 10 seconds, 24/7 streaming
Available on 9 -13 September 2020, Wed-Sun
 

Morphogenesis of Values (MOV) video reveals the stakes and objectives of the VoV project and the outcomes for the coming show in 2021. MOV is developed from the research project of VoV, a neuro-design transactional art project that provokes questions of human values in relation to art, philosophy, poetry, ethics, environment and surveillance. It resonates with how we define human goals in what will be a post-pandemic world. 

Maurice BENAYOUN received the Ars electronica Golden Nica interactive Arts, 1998.
 
 
 

CREDITS:

Artists: Maurice BENAYOUN, Nicolas MENDOZA, Tobias KLEIN

Curator: Ann MAK, Osage

Organised & Presented by: Osage Art Foundation

Content Production: Charlie YIP, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM

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Tamás Waliczky: Imaginary Cameras

Tamás Waliczky: Imaginary Cameras

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9 -13 September 2020, Wed – Sun

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From HK to the Hungarian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2019, Waliczky revisits technologies in a non-linear history of the moving image. This project revolves around the possibilities of visual perception and how they can be captured and depicted. It refers to the foremost 23 Imaginary Cameras Waliczky began designing in 2016. The optical devices operate with analogue mechanisms and draw attention to the cultural and technical determinedness of visual perception and depiction. Tamas Waliczky received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, 1989.

 

 

 

CREDITS:

Artist: Tamás WALICZKY 

Artist’s Assistant: Anna SZEPESI 

National Commissioner: Julia FABÉNYI 

Curator: Zsuzsanna SZEGEDY-MASZÁK

Venue: Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Previous exhibitions of the show: Osage Art Foundation – Photo Macau, School of Creative Media CityU HK Gallery, Hungarian Pavilion Venice Biennae

 

 

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Jeffrey Shaw: WYSIWYG

Jeffrey Shaw: WYSIWYG

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9 -13 September 2020, Wed – Sun

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The milestone works that are hallmarks of Jeffrey Shaw’s singular achievements in the avant-garde of contemporary media art. The computing acronym WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get – was chosen by Shaw as the title for his solo exhibition. It invokes the experience gained from the viewer’s action of interactively exploring his artworks.

In the aspect of Shaw’s oeuvre, the exposition is determined by what happens in the course of an exchange, and what is seen and perceived is what is performed and elucidated by each viewer/interactor. So one can add this preface to WYSIWYG: WYDIWYS – What You Do Is What You See! Jeffrey Shaw has been awarded with the Visionary Pioneer of Media Art Golden Nica 2018.



CREDITS:

Artist: Jeffrey SHAW

Curator: Jeffrey SHAW, Osage 

Organized and presented by: Osage Art Foundation

Production: Osage Art Foundation, ACIM, SCM, CityU

Venue: Osage Gallery Hong Kong

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