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Press Release
Attention Arts and Features Editors

4 May 2011
For immediate release

Points of Ellipsis...
24.05.2011 – 2.06.2011 / 14.06.2011 – 5.07.2011
Reception: 27.05.2011, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Artists: Juan ALCAZAREN, Ranelle DIAL, Roberto CHABET, Nilo ILARDE, Lani MAESTRO, Tozer
PAK, Gary-Ross PASTRANA, Cris VILLANUEVA, William LIM
Curators: Arianna GELLINI and Sonja NG

Points of Ellipsis... is a group exhibition featuring conceptual works bynine innovative Filipino and Hong Kong artists: Juan Alcazaren, Ranelle
Dial, Roberto Chabet, Nilo Ilarde, Lani Maestro, Gary-Ross Pastrana,
Cris Villanueva, Tozer Pak and William Lim.

Points of Ellipsis… picks up the trail from “Regional Perspectives:
Chabet 50 Years” 1 attempting to rearticulate and expand some of thequestion highlighted in the previous shows. Taking Chabet’s formalisticand deconstructive approach to art-making as a starting point, theexhibition unravels and explores the intricate yet elusive relationshipbetween parts and whole.
In art, parts are fundamental constituents that define the structure andidentity of a whole—be it an artwork itself or a set of artworks within anexhibition space—and yet the perception of these parts are
simultaneously confined and constrained by the presence of the whole.

Portal V, William Lim, installation,2011 and UNTITLED (After RobertoChabet) 1-3 , Bea Camacho, 2010

1 “Regional Perspectives: Chabet 50 Years” is a series of projects presented by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore andOsage Art Foundation throughout 2011 – 2012 at various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila in celebration of fifty years ofChabet’s pioneering conceptual work and his role in shaping Philippine contemporary art. It was organized through partnering withorganizations King Kong Art Projects Unlimited, Embassy of the Philippines, Singapore, Philippine Consulate General, NCCA andAsian Cultural Council.

On what level can one perceive artworks as parts within an exhibition whole? To what degree is theinterpretation surrounding an exhibition driven by the imposition of a theme or by the artworks'
independent meaning? Points of Ellipsis... seeks to unravel some of these questions as it looks at theways in which positions and interactions between artworks can contribute to the overall identity of anexhibition as a whole.
In linguistic usage, "…" are suspension points, intentional omissions of words, elliptical points in apausing of speech, or indexical signs of an unfinished thought. They suspend and protrude a given
phrases meaning through a silent echo, connecting two sentences with an invisible thread. In using
Points of Ellipsis... for this exhibition, the works of the nine selected artists act as sentences within a text,
rendering visible the cryptic and invisible threads that connect artworks in an exhibition.
Through these nine artists the entrenched aspects of parts within a whole are explored in nine different
and peculiar manners, forming a visual articulation of this intrinsic tug-of-war between the parts and whole.
Their temporal and fragmented nature not only highlights fluidity within the final structure, function, andsynergy of the parts, but also ultimately questions the static existence of the exhibition as a whole.
Hong Kong based artist and architect William Lim, who carried out an architectural intervention in theprevious show Complete & Unabridged Part II, this time infiltrates the surface of the exhibition Points ofEllipsis… by altering his previous response. Focusing on the immediate wall dimension, Lim will cut
around his pre-existing hole, thereby transforming the wall from a spatial element to an object in space;from whole to part. By reversing its nature from large whole to fragmented part, his work and action
epitomizes the interactive relationship between parts and whole and opens up new ways to question thepractice of exhibition making.

--END—ABOUT POINTS OF ELLIPSIS...
Artists:

Juan Alcazaren, Ranelle Dial, Roberto Chabet, Nilo Ilarde, Lani Maestro,
Tozer Pak, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Chris Villanueva and William Lim

Curators:

Arianna Gellini and Sonja Ng

Venue:

Osage Kwun Tong

Address:

5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong,
Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tel:(852) 2793 4817

Exhibition Duration:

24 May 2011 till 6 June 2011, 14 June till 5 July 2011Reception:

27 May 2011 (Friday), 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Reception Sponsors:[ENCL.]
APPENDIX A: PRESS IMAGESAPPENDIX A: PRESS IMAGES

Ethnic Bullet (2010) by Cris Villanueva, Jr.
2 panels, 122cm X 183cm each

Russian Painting 1 (1984/2010) by Roberto Chabet
Installation, 243.84 x 426.72 x 30.48 cm

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exhibitions by some of the most significant artists in Asia, such as Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Shen
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong
Staged Fictions: Patty Chang, Ho Tzu Nyen and Adrian Wong
Curated by Pauline J. YaoArtists: Patty Chang, Ho Tzu Nyen, Adrian Wong
24.05.2011 – 2.06.2011 / 14.06.2011 – 5.07.2011
Opening Reception: 27.05.2011, 6pm
Osage Gallery, SohoLSSIISLTENNTCurated by David ChanArtists: Poklong Anading
20.05.2011 – 20.06.2011
Opening Reception: 19.05.2011, 6pm
Current Exhibitions
Complete & Unabridged Part II
presented by Osage Art Foundation, ICAS, and King Kong Arts Projects Unlimited
Curated by Gary-Ross Pastrana, Ringo Bunoan and Isabel Ching
Artists: Roberto Chabet and 51 artists
till 09.05.2011 at Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong
Intermediate Geographypresented by Osage Art Foundation, ICAS, and King Kong Arts Projects Unlimited
Artists: Roberto Chabet
till 09.05.2011 at Osage Gallery, Soho
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