Art Gallery
FEATURING Allan Teger, Carol Mui, Don Mak, Elizabeth Lyons, Fan Ho, Jacky
Tsai, Jinseikou, Kim Whanki, Ko Young Hoon, Kirsteen Pieterse, Laurent
Segretier, Lee Jun Seok, Monk, Rebecca Lin, Roberto Barni, Sonia Bensouda
Index Art Gallery
GF Hotel Rooms
Kim Whanki
Elizabeth Lyons
Jacky Tsai
Kirsteen Pieterse
Lee Jun Seok
2F
Jinseikou
Sonia Bensouda
3F
Don Mak
Kirsteen Pieterse
Roberto Barni
Rooftop
Rebecca Lin & Carol Mui
Allan Teger
Fan Ho
Ko Young Hoon
Laurent Segretier
Ground Floor
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Kim Whanki
Location: GF - by Entrance
Kim Whan-ki (1913-1974) is considered as one of the pioneers of abstract art in Korea. Blending traditional concepts and ideals of Korea with abstraction, the repetition of dots and the harmony in hues gave viewers a sense of transcendency and infinity.
War War War
Jacky Tsai
Location: GF - wall opposite to Reception
Application of traditional eastern artistic techniques and motifs with references from western Pop Art marks Jacky Tsai’s unique style. His works are aesthetically and culturally rich, often addressing contemporary subject matters.
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Kirsteen Pieterse
Location: GF - Carpark Entrance
Scottish sculptor Kirsteen Pieterse has been based in Hong Kong for more than a decade. Her works often hint at landscapes and skyscapes through manipulated stainless steel or plywood. The convergence of ephemerality of the subject matter and solidity of industrial materials illustrates the precarious yet poetic relationship between human and built environment.
Lee Jun Seok
Location: GF - Carpark Entrance
Born in 1967, South Korean artist Lee Jun Seok works with copper wires and glass to create wall pieces and sculptures . While copper wires gives off an icy feeling, glass symbolises fire and heat, the artist portrays images of everyday life by moulding into union these two contrasting materials.
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Immortal’s Incline
Leaf Rice Bowl
Array: Magnolias
Elizabeth Lyons
Location: GF - Reception
Award-winning sculptor ELIZABETH LYONS has been commissioned by top interior designers and architects worldwide and published in leading design publications and books. The piece is made of 168 hand sculpted glass magnolias representing the Yulan namesake, and hand forged bronze branches.
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Mokuren 01
all by Jinseikou
Location: 2F - Reception
Cascade Budding Peony
Jinseikou is a South Korean artist based in New York. Having been trained in traditional painting including watercolour, oil painting and dessin, she is fascinated by simplicity, delicate realism and the particular tension of spreading inky pigment on watery paper.
Mokuren 01 and Budding Peony demonstrate the artist’s mastery of watercolour, portraying soft petals with a simple yet intricate play on postitive and negatives space.
by Sonal Nathwani
Location: 2F - Reception
Based in Vienna, Sonal Nathwani is an artist and surface pattern designer that is deeply influenced by nature, and above all, flowers. Whether it be figurative or abstract, she enjoys creating rhythmic quality with lines and colours in her works.
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all by Sonia Bensouda
Location: 2F - Arca Assembly
City Boys The Reversed Hotel
Reflections
City Boy
all by Sonia Bensouda
Location: 2F - Arca Assembly
Sonia Bensouda is a French artist based in London. She uses the gicleé print as a medium to combine digital photography and collage that playfully explore human’s relationship with real and virtual spaces.
The experience of growing up in the vibrant surroundings of Morocco is influential to the artist’s creative approach, in which researching colour combinations and developing palettes is a significant part of her artistic practice.
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The Arca
all by Don Mak
Location: 3F - Arca Society
Don Mak is an illustrator born and raised in Hong Kong. Mak’s passion and artistry in drawing bloomed before graduation since his early working years with Hong Kong local comic artists, and later became a strong visual storyteller through his vivid and comprehensive Hong Kong cityscape imageries.
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all by Don Mak
Location: 3F - Arca Society
The Arca
Journey 1
Kirsteen Pieterse
Location: 3F
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Impresa, 2001
Roberto Barni
Born in Pistoia, Robert Barni is a sculptor whose professional career spans six decades. Having had his start in Pistoia and Florence, Barni ventured to the Americas and Asia in the 80’s. His signature slender figures, often recalling the work of Giacometti, evokes a sense of livelihood in the inanimate. His sculptures have mythological and spiritual underpinning that are echoed by his use of bronze, a seemingly immortal and classical material.
Location: 3F - Terrace
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Terracotta Forest
Carol Mui
Location: 3/F - Private Room
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Gateway Carol Mui Location: 36/F
Analog Beach Days
Rebecca Lin
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Rooftop
Destination
Rebecca Lin & Carol Mui
Location: Rooftop - Arca Sky
About Rebecca Lin & Carol Mui
Rebecca Lin & Carol Mui started their mural business #creativehustlers in 2017 to help offices, restaurants and shops transform their walls with art, and have since created murals for clients. By combining Carol’s philosophy of‘slowing down’and Rebecca’s dedication
to home and heritage, the duo designed murals with an urban concrete jungle theme to breathe life into spaces, while reminding us to be mindful of the city’s co-existing skyscrapers and country parks while drawing parallels to the struggles of work-life balance that Hong Kongers often face.
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Hotel Rooms
A pioneer among Korean artists of the 21st century, Ko, Young Hoon is known for his mastery of surface detail and his mystical approach to the representation of objects – raising questions of authenticity and illusion in his highly finished paintings. Ko works slowly and uses
scale to draw an object’s details into sharp focus, examining not only the authenticity of an object represented on paper, but the authenticity of the object itself. Ko’s objects seem to float on the picture plane, a quality Ko has referred to as a nod to their place in the cosmos.
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Peony & Butterfly
Ko Young Hoon
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Back to Back
Fan Ho
Private, Hong Kong 1960
Fan Ho
As Evening Hurries by Hong Kong 1955
Different Directions, Hong Kong 1968
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Fan Ho
Fan Ho
On the Stage of Life
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Inferno
Fan Ho
Fan Ho
Pattern, Hong Kong 1956
Fan Ho
About Fan Ho
Prolific photographer Fan Ho began his artistic career in Shanghai, and subsequently moved to Hong Kong with his parents to continue his practice. Ho was motivated by his intense love for the common Hong Kong people, often photographing street vendors, hawkers and pedestrians, unintentionally capturing the soul of the city. Most commonly found in his works are recognizable locales of the city; alleyways, wet markets, residential complexes, often captured in dramatic fashion with atmospheric backlit effect through a combination of smoke and light.
East Meets West, Hong Kong 1963
Fan Ho
Ho is a quintessential Hong Konger and a giant of the local photography community. He continued to practice photography and eventually began to film directing until retiring at the age of 65.
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Regatta
all by Allan Teger
Heron
all by Allan Teger
Photographer Allan Teger was originally trained as a social psychologist, whose academic practice influenced and inform his photography series Bodyscapes. Having taken interest in altered realities, mysticism and meditation early on, Teger turned to photography in the 70’s as a medium to illustrate the coexistence of two realities. Bodyscapes play on perception of reality
through creative portrayal of social activities engaged atop the human body. The body becomes at once the object and subject of the work, acting as both the focal and supporting element to the photographic plane.
Having left began the series in 1975, Teger left academics in 1981 to devote his full time to photography.
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Fly Fishing Horses and Pond
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all by Laurent Segretier
Meet Tourist
all by Laurent
Laurent Segretier is a Hong Kong and Paris based French fine art photographer, whose artistic practice is influenced by his nomadic lifestyle and multicultural upbringing. His avant garde approach to photography means his artistic practice is not only informed by high art and popular culture, but also societal views of gender, identity, and sexuality.
Segretier’s most recent series, Meet Tourist, celebrates the spectacle of the everyday. Commissioned by the Arca, Meet Tourist captures the environment and community of Wong Chuk Hang. Slices of Southside culture captured through the familiar passing of an airplane, the idle dock by the bay, the diligent construction worker carefully inspecting a work site. Working within the industrialised environment of Wong Chuk Hang further reveals Segretier’s attraction to and recognition of the working class as hidden power that fuels a society.
This series is a prime example of how Segretier uses the visual language of street photography to process public space, reinventing the mundane into novel forms and meanings in a style that is romantic and unapologetically honest.
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