the Arca Art Brochure

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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

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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