Joseph Kosuth and Tsang Kin-Wah Leaflet

Joseph Kosuth and Tsang Kin-Wah 29 November 2009 - 17 January 2010 Opening: 28 November, Saturday 7pm | Gallery talk: 29 November, Sunday 2:30pm Para /Site Art Space G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, HK Joseph Kosuth

與 曾建華

二零零九年十一月二十九日至二零一零年一月十七日 開幕酒會： 二 零零九年十一月二十八日，星期六晚上七時正 | 講座： 二 零零九年十一月二十九日 ，星期日下午二時半

Para/Site 藝 術空間 香港上環普仁街4號地下

Joseph Kosuth and Tsang Kin-Wah | 29 November 2009 - 17 January 2010 Opening: 28 November, Saturday 7pm Gallery talk: 29 November, Sunday 2:30pm, by Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya (Exhibition Curator) Para /Site Art Space G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, HK Joseph Kosuth

與 曾建華 | 二零零九年十一月二十九日至二零一零年一月十七日

開幕酒會： 二 零零九年十一月二十八日 ，星期六晚上七時正 講座： 二 零零九年十一月二十九日 ，星期日下午二時半 ，展覽策展人 Alvaro

Rodriguez Fominaya 主講

Para/Site 藝 術空間 香港上環普仁街4號地下

Para/Site Art Space is honored to present a two-person exhibition by Joseph Kosuth (1945, Toledo, Ohio, USA) and Tsang Kin-Wah (1976, China). This is the first time that Joseph Kosuth exhibits his work in China, and almost four years have passed since Tsang Kin-Wah’s last solo show in Hong Kong. This exhibition opens a series of collaborations between artists from China and the West at Para/Site Art Space.

Joseph Kosuth is one of the founders of the Conceptual Art Movement in New York in the 60’s. Joseph Kosuth is one of most internationally renowned artists working today. As an originator of the Conteptual Art Movement, his artistic practice is rooted in Tsang Kin-Wah has prepared the new installation If the notion of Philosophy and Someone Calls It Art, It’s Kun(s)t, a text, sound and Linguistics, and particularly light installation related to Joseph Kosuth’s works to the connection between in the exhibition. The artist has included Kosuth’s language and its meaning.

L’essence de la rhétorique est dans l’allégorie (1996) Kosuth draws on the ideas in this concept-specific installation, that addresses of Ludwig Wittgestein as notions that are recurrent in the historical Conceptual well as Post-Structural Art Movement connected to linguistics and postPhilosophers. Kosuth has structuralism. This work occupies the main gallery of been shown in all major Para/Site Art Space. Tsang Kin-Wah indicates that this museums and biennials new work ‘…explores the openness, brutalities and worldwide, including four “limitations” of language and written texts, and, at the editions of Documenta in same time, makes comment on the “cold, mechanical, Kassel and three editions conceptual bullshit” and its “overconceptualization” of The Venice Biennale. His as a form of representation’. works appear in numerous The show includes a historical selection of ten works prestigious collections such on paper by Joseph Kosuth, dating from 1994 to 2008, as the Museum of Modern such as Kurz, eine Metapher ist…(N. Goodman) (1996), Art, Guggenheim Museum Double Meaning (2005), Andersen Self Described and The Whitney Museum of (2006) and A Grammatical Remark (Pescara) (2005).

American Art in New York.

Para/Site 藝 術空間呈獻 Joseph Kosuth ( 1945 ，瀕伊利湖 ，俄亥俄州 ，美 Joseph Kosuth 是 6 0 年 代紐約概念 國) 與 曾建華（1976 ，中國）之聯展 。Joseph Kosuth 的 作品第一次於中國展出 ， 藝術運動的始創者之一 ，是現今世界著名 藝術家之一 。作為概念藝術運動的始創者 ， 是次展出亦是曾建華於香港久違了四年的展覽 。此展覽為 Para/Site 藝 術空間的 中西藝術家合作系列開路 。

他的作品常探究哲學與語言 ，尤其是語言

與意義之間的關係 。他常用到 Ludwig Someone Calls Wittgestein 及 其他後結構主意哲學家 It Art, It’s Kun(s)t 。藝術家把 Kosuth 的 L’essence de la 的意念 。Kosuth 曾 展出於世界所有重要 rhétorique est dans l’allégorie ( 1996) 融 入其作品中 ，探討概念藝術 藝術館及雙年展 ，包括四屆卡塞爾的 中有關語言及後結構主義的概念 。此作品進佔 Para/Site 藝 術空間的主要展室 。 Documenta 以 及三屆威尼斯雙年展 。他 曾建華指此作品探究語言及文字的開放性 、殘酷及「 限 制 」，同時亦評論那些「 冷 漠 、 的作品被收藏於 M useum of Modern 呆板 、概念化的狗屁 」 以 及「 過 度概念化 」的表現方法 。 Art 、 Guggenheim Museum 及 紐 此展覽展出十件 J oseph Kosuth 於 1 994 至 2 008 年 間的作品 ，包括 約的 T he Whitney Museum of Kurz , eine Metapher ist…( N. Goodman) ( 1996) 、 Double American Art 。 Meaning (2005) 、 Andersen Self Described ( 2006) 以 及 A Grammatical Remark ( Pescara) ( 2005) 。 曾建華準備了一個全新的文字 、聲音及光裝置藝術作品 If

Tsang Kin-Wah studied at Camberwell College of Arts (London) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong). He has had solo shows at Galerie Yvon Lambert (New York & Paris), and more recently at Pékin Fine Arts (Beijing). He has also exhibited at the Xth Lyon Biennial, MOCA Shanghai, National Museum of Art (Oslo), KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation at the Hong Kong Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), among others.

Tsang Kin-Wah is represented by Pékin Fine Arts.

曾建華畢業於 C amberwell College of Arts （倫敦） 及 香港中文大學（香港）。他曾於 Galerie Yvon Lambert （紐約及巴黎） 、 北 京藝門（北京）

等 舉 辦個人展覽 。亦曾展出於第十屆里昂 雙年展 、上海當代藝術館 、 N ational Museum of Art （奥斯陸） 、 KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art （赫爾辛 弗斯）、 香 港藝術館的路易威登： 創 意 情感以及 M useum of Modern Art （莫斯科）等 。 曾建華為北京藝門代表之藝術家 。

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