Exhibition Name: Wilson Shieh... Sumbody

Date of visit: 6 April 2013

 

In a nutshell, this is a show about reviewing the development of Wilson Shieh’s figurative practice of the past five years and his positioning as an artistic figure. Such endeavour of figuring out conclusions from a ‘retrospective’, a sum, of recent work by one of Hong Kong’s more well-­‐known contemporary painters is elusive, perhaps even impossible from the get-­‐go, yet the shifts in registers of medium, production and strategy accompanied by increased exposure to the broader public call for a considered attempt at explication and clarification. This is not a time to remain silent. Hence, this is not simply any review show, but self-­‐consciously about Wilson on Wilson Shieh.