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Press Release
Attention Arts and Features Editors

4 May 2011
For immediate release

Osage Gallery participating at ART HK11
26.05.2011 – 29.05.2011
Osage Gallery is delighted to announce its participation in ARTHK11, featuring works byPoklong Anading (Manila), Lee Kit (Hong Kong), Wilson Shieh (Hong Kong), Maria
Taniguchi (Manila/ London), Charwei Tsai (Taipei/ Paris), and Alvin Zafra (Manila).

“-------“, Poklong Anading, Photo digital archival print on paper, 2010

Osage Gallery is pleased to participate at ARTHK11 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre 26–29 May, 2011 in the Galleries Section (Booth 1A01). As a cross disciplinary platform
devoted to promoting experimental art practices and cultivating a local audience for contemporaryart, we will be presenting six artists from Hong Kong and Asia.
On view is Argument from Nowhere 2000, a painting made with sandpaper and human skull byAlvin Zafra. Previously exhibited at the Mori Museum in Tokyo, this decadent artwork in fact
captures an image of death. Fascinated by Hong Kong’s infatuation with skyscrapers, Wilson
Shieh will present a new series of gongbi paintings that addresses the tension between tallbuildings and body politics. Charwei Tsai’s Ice Exploration, 2009 are photographs that takenature as the subject matter; the gesture of using a finger to melt ice on a mirror is an intimate
statement of our desire for control and destiny. Story 12 Whatever happened in a Forest 2011 by
Lee Kit, representative of the potential of a younger generation of local artist, utilises the everyday
as a visual narrative for an alternative diary. Maria Taniguchi’s monochromic painting unveils ourrelationship with simulation and questions the relevance of image making at an epoch of theinternet. Similarly critical is Poklong Anading’s Untitled (Gaze) a large scale light box placed at
the entrance of the fair booth, depicting a group of beholders looking into an empty space thatprobes spectatorship in a commercial sphere.

Kingsley Ng (Osage represented artist), Syren Johnstone and Daniel Patzold are also presenting
LUNGHUA – a metal, video and sound installation as part of the ARTHK11 series of installation
projects again this year.
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Featured artists:

Poklong Anading, Lee Kit, Wilson Shieh, Maria Taniguchi, Charwei
Tsai, Alvin Zafra
Booth 1A01, Hall 1A, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,Venue:
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Duration:

26 May 2011 till 29 May 2011
26 May 2011 (Thursday), 12noon – 6.45pm
27 May 2011 (Friday), 12noon – 6.45pm

Opening Hours:
28 May 2011 (Saturday), 12noon – 6.45pm
29 May 2011 (Sunday), 12noon – 4.45pm

ABOUT OSAGE GALLERYOsage Gallery is devoted to the exhibition and promotion of international and Asian contemporary
visual arts, exploring the diverse and complex artistic relationships between the different regionsof Asia, and beyond that, of the artistic relationships between Asia and other parts of the world.
Osage Gallery represents some of the most exciting and significant artists in the region. The
gallery also works closely with international critics and curators to present exhibitions and projects
that address themes and issues relevant to our times.
In addition to organising major group and thematic exhibitions, Osage Gallery has organised solo
exhibitions by some of the most significant artists in Asia, such as Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Shen
Shaomin and Jiang Zhi from China, as well as other Asian artists such as Wilson Shieh (HongKong), Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand) and Charwei Tsai (Taiwan).
Osage Gallery is part of the Osage Group www.osageartideas.com encompassing the muchcelebrated Osage Art Foundation, Osage Art Consultancy and Osage Design.

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 – 18.07.2011
Opening reception: 27.05.2011, 6pm
Points of Ellipsis…
Curated by Arianna Gellini and Sonja Ng
Artists: Juan ALCAZAREN, Ranelle DIAL, Roberto CHABET, Nilo ILARDE, Lani MAESTRO,Tozer PAK, Gary-Ross PASTRANA, Cris VILLANUEVA, William LIM
24.05.2011 – 2.06.2011 / 14.06.2011 – 5.07.2011
Opening reception: 27.05.2011, 6pm
Osage Gallery, SohoLSSIISLTENNTCurated by David Chan
Artists: Poklong Anading
20.05.2011 – 20.06.2011
Private Viewing: 19.05.2011, 6pm
Please visit www.osagegallery.com for more information.

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