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222 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong / T + 852 2291 0006 / www.thecatstreetgallery.com
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DIRECTOR’S FORWARD
The Cat Street Gallery is excited to welcome the globally renowned South African Artist Lionel Smit to Hong Kong. Contronym will be Smit’s inaugural solo show in Asia. “A contronym is a word with two meanings, where these two meanings are the opposites of each other.” The show is an extension of Smit’s themes exploring the duality of idenity, or hybrid-identity. The body of work is a conversation of ideas surrounding mirrored portraiture through bursts of energy and a balance of spontaneous actions, which Smit transfers to canvas, silkscreen and sculpture. Transforming the everyday and ordinary into the prodigious and beautiful, creating through the tension of two things pulling in opposite directions, at the same time. Smit, living and working in South Africa, has established an international following throughout the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia. His collectors range from the Standard Chartered Bank, Laurence Graff of Delaire Wine Estate and founder of GRAFF Diamonds to the Rand Merchant Bank of South Africa. Smit was awarded the Viewer’s Choice Award of the BP Portrait Award 2013 in London and recently honoured with a Ministerial Award from the Department of Culture for Visual Art. His work has also been featured on the cover of a Christie’s Auction Catalogue.
Mandy d’Abo Founder and Director The Cat Street Gallery
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CONTENTS
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Directors Forward
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Morph
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Cohere #1
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Cohere #2
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Assemblance
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Dissemblance #1
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Dissemblance #2
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Precess Series #2
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Precess Series #1
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Morphous Maquette
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Polymorphous Series #1
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Polymorphous Series #2
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Polymorphous Series #3
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Residue #1
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Morph Oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm 2014
HKD 170,000
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Cohere #1 Oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm 2014
HKD 75,000
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Cohere #2 Oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm 2014
HKD 75,000
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Assemblance Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm 2014
HKD 50,000
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Dissemblance #1 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm 2014
HKD 50,000
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Dissemblance #2 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm 2014
HKD 50,000
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Process Series #2 Bronze 90 x 40 x 30 cm Edition of 12, 2012
HKD 86,000
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Process Series #1 Bronze 55 x 45 x 30 cm Edition of 12, 2012
HKD 67,000
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Morphous Maquette Bronze 12 cm high Edition of 12, 2014
HKD 38,000
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Polymorphous Series #1 Silkscreen on 280GSM Fabriano cotton paper 70 x 84 cm Edition of 6, 2014
HKD 32,000
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Polymorphous Series #2 Silkscreen on 280GSM Fabriano cotton paper 70 x 84 cm Edition of 6, 2014
HKD 32,000
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Polymorphous Series #3 Silkscreen on 280GSM Fabriano cotton paper 92 x 70 cm Edition of 6, 2014
HKD 32,000
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Residue #1 Print on archival paper with paint and pencil 109 x 149 cm Edition of 24, 2012
HKD 28,000
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222 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong / T + 852 2291 0006 / www.thecatstreetgallery.com