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.

Performing Arts: Wafaa Bilal

Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and internal dynamics. 


EDUCATION 
2003 MFA, Art and Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
1999 BFA, Summa Cum Laude, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 
1985-90 BA (equivalent) Geography and Geology, University of Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq

APPOINTMENTS 
2008-12 Present Assistant Arts Professor, Photography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
2004-08 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Photography, Art and Technology, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003-05 Instructor, Photography, Advanced Video, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2012 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA)
2011-12 Artist-in-Residence, Lower Manhattan Culture Center, LMCC, New York
2011 Freedom to Create Commended Artist Award
2010 The Kindal Achievement Award 
2008 Editor’s Choice Best Book of 2008, Booklist Magazine 2008


For his current project, the 3rdi, Bilal had a camera surgically implanted on the back of his head to spontaneously transmit images to the web 24 hours a day – a statement on surveillance, the mundane and the things we leave behind. 


Bilal’s 2010 work “…And Counting” similarly used his own body as a medium. His back was tattooed with a map of Iraq and dots representing Iraqi and US casualties – the Iraqis in invisible ink seen only under a black light. 

Bilal’s 2007 installation, Domestic Tension, also addressed the Iraq war. Bilal spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the internet. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time” and named him 2008 Artist of the Year. 



http://wafaabilal.com/#&panel1-1
website of Wafaa Bilal

Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over the Ocean

Date of visit: 6 April,2013
Name of art gallery: Osage Open (Kwun Tong)
Name of exhibition: My Father is Over the Ocean

It ‘s been a year since Au Hoi Lam’s father passed away and she still can’t quite accept his death. So the contemporary Hong Kong artist did what artists do: create beautiful, poetic artworks to express her yearning.

Au Hoi Lam created her first large-scale installation at Osage Open titled “My Father is Over the Ocean.” The show plays with two main elements, the song “My Bonnie is Over the Ocean” and a bed that her father last occupied before he passed away.

Au Hoi Lam sung and recorded the song, which the song is playing in the exhibition venue. The bed her father used to sleep with was separated into parts. The wooden bed parts are used in the artworks as the medium. 

The bed sheet, the stairs and the every single wooden part of the bed are shown in many different ways. Words are written on the wood, which are 60 questions that Au Hoi Lam would like to ask her father. I appreciate the way she chose to express her idea. It's new and special to me. 

Here comes with more works in the exhibition:

 

I like the last artwork,'Dad, What Shade of Blue Did You See Today?', the most. Au Hoi Lam's father always worked on the sea.In the last few days before he died, he said he felt like boarding over the sea. So Au Hoi Lam express her sadness and the memorizes her father in this artwork. She uses differnt kinds of blue to form a big scene of sea view. When I saw this works, I can feel like I am on the sea. And I feels the love between her and her father.

Generally, I love this exhibition.

http://encn.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/884004/interview-au-hoi-lam-dedicates-an-installation-to-her-late
Interview by Blouin Artinfo

More of Au Hoi Lam

Au Hoi Lam has been an artists for more than 10 years since she was in university.
She used to focus on painting only in the previous stage. She treats painting as a hobby to express her thoughts. She feels free to paint and feels comfortable with that.
While we can look into her works in the past to discover her own characteristics in painting. 

2006 When Words are Sweet: Paintings by Au Hoi Lam 

2010 Definitions of Time: Paintings by Au Hoi lam






http://www.timeout.com.hk/art/features/34248/interview-au-hoi-lam.html#panel-4
Interview : Timeout Hong Kong (2010 May)

video clips of Au Hoi Lam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EKTwu6qeck
profile of Au Hoi Lam
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~fadept/Eng/Staff/part_time/AuHoiLam.html
http://www.va-gallery.com/eng/artists/au-hoi-lam/

Exhibitions of Andy Warhol

Name of exhibition: Hello It's Me, Goodbye:Andy Warhol's Cinema
                             (4 Feb,2013)
                             15 minutes Eternal (15 March,2013)

 

First of all, what can you think of between banana, and Campbells tomato soup?

Yes, the linkage between them are no one, but Andy Warhol and pop art culture.

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.(web resources)




It's amazing and wonderful to see so many famous artworks of Andy Warhol. He is one of my favourite artists and his artworks always give inspiration to me.
In fact, I love pop culture that Andy Warhol had brought. It is a symbol of transformation and revolution of arts. It give us broaden vision and perspective when viewing arts and even daily affairs.
I am happy I have been to both the exhibition of Andy Warhol. While the gallery gave me a valuable time to see so many master pieces, the cinema showed me the other form of Andy Warhol's arts. I get to know more on Andy Warhol and know deeper of his biology and life perspective.