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Attention Arts and Features Editors

Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong
5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building
73-75 Hung To Road
Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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6 January 2012
For immediate release

4 exciting events in January!
RECEPTION - Friday 13 January, 6-8pm
14.1.2012 – 12.2.2012

Troglodyte See the Light
Artist: Adrian WONG
Troglodyte See the Light, a solo
exhibition by Adrian Wong wasconceived as a structured means ofexploring the boundaries and limitationsof language.
Having undergone several prolonged
periods of premeditated and situational
isolation (via meditation, extended stays
in remote areas, and acute boutsof agoraphobia), Adrian Wong became
acutely aware of the increasingly
fragmented nature of his internalmonologue.

Adrian WONG, Kaspar Hauser, Ramachandra, and Natascha the Dog
Girl of Chita, 2011
Special thanks to Artech Design and Productions, Jim Chan, and Ricci
Wong. wood, laminate, foam, acrylic, faux fur, carpet, animatronics,
2.5cm X 2.5cm X 1.5cm

Supported byThese breakages from conventional
means of communication highlighted
the rarely attended-to nature of prelinguistic thought, the subject of thepresent investigation.

No Longer Human
Artist: Nadim ABBAS, Erkka NISSINEN and Magdalen WONGNo Longer Human is a group exhibition of
new works conceived as an open dialogue
between the artists Nadim Abbas, Erkka
Nissinen and Magdalen Wong. The
subject of this dialogue concerns thecondition of being human, or to be more
precise, the multiplicity of known andunknowable trajectories of humandevelopment – an imaginary ethnographyof the posthuman.

Errka Nissinen, 2012
Polis,
Video installation
Dimensions Variable

Crisscrossing the exhibition space,viewers are confronted with an alien
landscape, populated by peculiar
configurations of strange yet familiar
objects and imagery. This terrain
becomes the projection of some long lost
future, paradoxically embedded in thepast, like the deserted set from an oldscience fiction b-movie – banality wrappedaround the glow of fascination.

Supported by

How to set up a room for Johnny.
Artist: LEE Kit“Moving house and looking for a house: a
new home always feels like a hotel once
you move in, it feels temporary butintimate. Somehow you don’t know when
you need to move out. But you need tosettle down, and construct your life there,
because a lot of things are happeningoutside.” – Lee Kit

Lee Kit, 2011
Johnny's Bathroom (Details)
Plywood, fabric, vinyl and mixed media,Dimensions Variable
The exhibition was originally conceived by curator David Chan andLee Kit specifically for Art Basel 42.

‘How to set up a room for Johnny?’ waspresented in the Art Statements section ofArt Basel 2011. Lee Kit created a typicalHong Kong demonstration flat with a livingroom, a toilet, a bedroom, and a small
kitchen. Various hand-painted cloths andcardboard paintings infiltrate this domestic
prop for an imaginary character. Leedevises a situation that delves into ourconsciousness through seeing, feeling,acting, and simply being. Like a sudden
epiphany, we are left to deal with our own
emotions and memories privately. Osage
Gallery is proud to present this exhibitionby artist Lee Kit at Osage Kwun Tong.

Presentation of international co-production "The Butterfly Generator"
Artist: Tintin WULIA
On 13 January 2012 at 19.30 in Osage
Kwun Tong, artist Tintin Wulia will give atalk on her new interactive installation,
titled "The Butterfly Generator". The
networked installation resulted from her
residency project initiated at The Global
Contemporary exhibition in ZKM,
Germany and completed in partnershipwith Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong.
In her presentation, she willcontextualize this cross-border project
within her body of work on border andchance, which she has been developing
for several years.
The Butterfly Generator
Tintin Wulia, 2012
Interactive networked installation with live video stream and manual
Installation detail
Image courtesy of the artist, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruheand Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong

Artist talk Friday 13 January, 7:30 -8:30p.m.
Supported byAs part of the talk, Jacob Birken from
ZKM, co-curator of The Global
Contemporary exhibition, andrepresentative of Osage Art Foundation,will also present the background of thisinternational co-production. The work isavailable to public until 5 February 2012.
“The Butterfly Generator is an interactive
installation: two identical objects placed in
two different points on earth. This Siamese
twin functioning as some sort of container ismade to look identical by modifying
sameness. In each of the setup, virtuality andreality connects – one real container isavailable for you to touch, control and playwith like a sandbox, while the other half ofthe twin remains as a real-time webcam
projection on screen, as some sort ofmirroring reflection.” – Tintin Wulia
For more information about The Global
Contemporary exhibition, please visit:
http://www.global-contemporary.de/en

For more information on each exhibition, please contact:
Sybil Kot, Marketing Executive, Osage | sybilkot@osageartideas.com | 2793 4817

ABOUT OSAGE GALLERYOsage Gallery is devoted to the exhibition and promotion of international and Asian contemporary visualarts, exploring the diverse and complex artistic relationships between the different regions of Asia, andbeyond 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 withinternational critics and curators to present exhibitions and projects that address themes and issuesrelevant 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 Shaominand Jiang Zhi from China, as well as other Asian artists such as Lee Kit (Hong Kong), Wilson Shieh (HongKong), Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand) and Charwei Tsai (Taiwan).
Osage Gallery is part of the Osage group www.osageartideas.com encompassing the Osage Art
Foundation, Osage Art Consultancy and Osage Design.

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Sybil Kot
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Email sybilkot@osageartideas.com
Telephone + 852 2793 4817