ART HK 09

After a busy week with work + meetings, I had the pleasure of attending the ART HK 09 Hong Kong International Art Fair this weekend. It was held at the beautiful and gigantic Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai (right next to where we had the Cut & Paste event the previous night). There were about 110 galleries from 24 countries showcasing their best work.

Now, I don’t consider myself an expert on fine art but I can surely appreciate the hard work and artistry from working with artists myself. What made me really happy was that unlike a regular art show here in HK (where it’s typical to see the same 30-40 people), ART HK 09 was open to the masses and the crowd was mixed with what seemed like many regular folks who enjoy art but weren’t necessarily connected to the art scene in any way. I really hope with large international art shows like this, more Hong Kong artists will be inspired and moved to keep pushing the local art scene in a progressive direction.

Anyways, I posted just a small amount of photos I took ( Top to Bottom, Left to Right)
First Row: ArtHK Banners(beautiful day, lots of sunshine), Large Bald Asian Guy(he looked tired from holding up the entire convention center), White Cube Gallery signage.
Second Row: Colored Campbell’s Soup Can, 1965 (Andy Warhol), Buste de femme souriante, 1901(Pablo Picasso), Asian Art Archives “Design Museum Convenience Store” - i’ll talk more about this in a later post, Music Families (Wilson Shieh)
Third Row: Woman With Coffee Table, 2002 (David Lachapelle), Tseng Kwong Chi, I Believe You (Subodh Gupta) <-what a joke/complete BS, tons of people were trying to call it out and the curator was sweating bullets
Fourth Row: Mt.Fuji Girl (Aide Makoto), Sunset in Wan Chai, See You Next Year (May 27-May 30, 2010)