Index Art Gallery

from the Arca Art Brochure

by theArcahotel

Hotel Rooms

GF Hotel Rooms

Kim Whanki

Elizabeth Lyons

Jacky Tsai

Kirsteen Pieterse

Lee Jun Seok

Jinseikou

Sonia Bensouda

Don Mak

Kirsteen Pieterse

Roberto Barni

Rooftop

Rebecca Lin & Carol Mui

Allan Teger

Fan Ho

Ko Young Hoon

Laurent Segretier

Ground Floor

12-V-70

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.

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.

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.

Mokuren 01 all by Jinseikou

Location: 2F - Reception

Cascade Budding Peony by Sonal Nathwani

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.

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.

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.

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.

Journey 1

Kirsteen Pieterse

Location: 3F

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