May 28 – 29, 2022
Galleries, Level 1, Booth 1D05
Shinro Ohtake, Retina Map #58, 1991 © Shinro Ohtake
| Take Ninagawa is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel in Hong Kong 2022, also available for viewing online via OVR: Hong Kong.
The gallery features a group exhibition of three artists whose works dialogue with each other from across different contexts, regions, and generations. On view are works by Jiro Yoshihara, Shinro Ohtake, and Andro Wekua. This is Wekua’s first presentation in Hong Kong. The leader of the seminal Gutai Art Association, Jiro Yoshihara (1905–1972) experimented with different painting styles throughout his career, which spanned Japan’s pre- and postwar avant-gardes and different regimes of figuration and abstraction. His untitled painting of stylized bird and hand motifs, produced in 1951, three years prior to Gutai’s founding, engages in conversation with Cypress Eye (2020), by the Georgian-born Andro Wekua (b. 1977), in which the central bird figure plays hide-and-seek with flourishes of neon highlights and darker undertones that seem to be camouflaging some other presence. In both works, gesture, ground, and pattern exist in delicate tension with each other, collapsing surface and depth, present and past. This effect resonates with Shinro Ohtake’s collage and assemblage practice, represented here by historic works on the theme London/Hong Kong. In Ohtake’s case, the surface play is not limited to representation, and also extends to overlaps between two and three dimensions, projection and recession, composition and support. Inspired by the material culture of two of the world’s great cities, as well as, of course, the artist’s native Tokyo, the London/Hong Kong works embody a dynamic terrain where every surface seemingly has something to say. For more information, visit https://www.artbasel.com/rooms/detail/26691/Take-Ninagawa ——————————————————————————————————————- Art Basel in Hong Kong 2022 VIP Hours Vernissage Public Hours |