Edouard Malingue Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018

Edouard Malingue Gallery is pleased to exhibit in the Galleries, Encounters and Film sections of Art Basel Hong Kong 2018.
 
The Galleries section, moving between contemplations of time, precarity, actuality and identity, Edouard Malingue Gallery presents a group show focusing on the programme’s key tenet of introducing works by artists who combine aesthetic appeal with conceptual enquiry. Building a dialogue between East and West across multiple mediums, the booth illustrates a weaving of conversations, how approaches to a topic may vary but ultimately each informs our understanding whilst engaging our sense of aestheticism. On display are oeuvres by Cho Yong-Ik (b. 1934, Korea), Phillip Lai (b. 1969, Malaysia), João Vasco Paiva (b. 1979, Portugal), Chou Yu-Cheng (b. 1976, Taiwan), Kwan Sheung Chi (b. 1980, Hong Kong), Ko Sin Tung (b. 1987, Hong Kong), Samson Young (b. 1979, Hong Kong) and Wong Ping (b. 1984, Hong Kong). 

Complementing Edouard Malingue Gallery’s booth display is its major presentation by Chou Yu-Cheng in the Encounters section. Through sculpture, performance and recital, this installation aims to conceptually and formally explore the modern evolution of hygiene, offering the audience a multi-layered interpretation. A raised stage is dotted by a cluster of mammoth tableware sculptures linked to an app that serves as a platform for cleaning services. On stage, a mechanical cleaning robot playfully hovers across the stage suggesting a ‘division of labour’ between human and machines, while another actor poetically recites a product description in front of the modern sculptures, the totality of which creates a theatre of daily life.
 
Additionally, Sun Xun’s first 3D film ‘Time Spy’ (2016) will be presented in the Film section. First presented in 2016 at Art Basel Miami Beach as part of a large-scale immersive multimedia installation, ‘Time Spy’ was created from 10,000 hand-carved woodcuts, which were then transformed into 3D to explore a surreal tale of a magician intent on stealing time. Featuring winged-violins, mechanical horses and gothic architecture, the film offers a malleable and transitory view of time which is both inventive and immersive. The tension between natural and mechanical is furthered by the use of traditional techniques such as ink drawings and woodcuts, which have been transformed into 3D using modern technologies.