New shows to quench your thirst for art this summer.
For most, July in Hong Kong is all about beach days and junk trips, but we at Lifestyle Asia reckon there’s still a time and place reserved for art. Which is just as well, because this summer, the art world shows no signs of slowing down. In addition to the new exhibitions this month, M+ Cinema’s opening and Oil Street Art Space’s expansion, comes the inauguration of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Plus, we’ve got the upcoming Affordable Art Fair in August to look forward to. So little time, so much to do.
Raoul De Keyser: Replay Again
An extension of the gallery’s first showcase of the late Raoul De Keyser’s work in Hong Kong in 2021, David Zwirner is once again bringing the Belgium artist’s masterpieces to the city. Among the specially curated works on view are De Keyser’s “Come on, play it again”, “Hayward” and “Hellepoort” series, made during the height of his career from the mid-1980s to the 2000s.
Known for his tempered works of simple shapes and painterly marks, De Keyser constantly challenged and expanded on the possibilities of the medium of painting. In his “Come on, play it again” series, the artist relies on biomorphic and geometric forms, lines and dots; while his “Hayward” series, created in 1993, features planes of paint that hug the edges and margins, in an example that displays De Keyser’s radicality when it comes to paint.