Review on Osage exhibitions

Date of visit: 4 Feb,2013
Name of art gallery: Osage (Kwun Tong)
Name of exhibition: Meta Landscape (Ng Sai Kit)
                                   A Flight of Fancy (Magdalen Wong)
                              
                             

The Meta Landscape of Ng Sai Kit shows a series of natural photography with spatial concerns, which the composition of the photo is special for disorienting effects. Recently, his works are transformed into an investigation of the nature of "photography" and "seeing". Under the camera of Ng Sai Kit, the focused and out-focused area are thrown into jarring contrast through the development of an extremely shallow depth of field. The viewers are then come to disorientation, may doubt and question their perception of their views of vision. I appreciate the idea and concept of the artworks, which brings to a self-reflexive manner. When people look at the the photography, they are having different interpretations and feelings. That's what the artist desire for.

The artwork is "seeing", which the photographer' thought is presented or projected. It's a meditative arena for self-scrutiny.      

    

A flight of Fancy is interesting and inspiring to me. Her artworks is are really creative to me. She applies what we have seen  in daily life in her works, like milk commercial pictures and washing powder brands.She uses these stuff to express her unique thoughts and perspective of the world. Like most of us, she has doubt to this world. Like what she expressed in this exhibition, which is 'why commercial?' She put the ironic question to the commercials and advertisements. I agree with her in some extend. I think that the advertisements nowadays are too obvious and explicit. Some of them are overact or exaggerated, which give out a wrong message to the public and misleading some of the people. 

I appreciate the idea of the artworks and the way she chose to show us. This is what contemporary art is, to have new ways to perform arts and mixed media.  

  

Osage Gallery is devoted to the exhibition and promotion of international and Asian contemporary visual arts. It aims to be a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and active engagement of audiences by embracing a global and diverse approach to the creation, presentation and interpretation of the arts. I think it is a good platform to offer audiences new experiences of art in spectacular surroundings. Osage is like a warehouse-style contemporary arts space in Hong Kong.

Audiences who come can just relax, feel free to explore contemporary arts here.