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Attention Arts and Culture Editors

8 December 2012
For immediate release

Exhibiton

Hello It’s Me, Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema
Jointly-presented by The Osage Art Foundation and The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museumsof Pittsburgh. BNY Mellon is the Lead Sponsor for this Exhibition.
Curators: Yason Banal, Geralyn Huxley
Date: 16 December 2012 – 14 February 2013
Opening and Talks: 16 December 2012, 1:00-7:00pm
Osage Kwun Tong
5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Daily opening hours: 10:30am to 7pm (Except for public holidays)
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the death of Andy Warhol – arguably the most influential artist of thelate 20th century – a select number of his films will be on exhibit for the first time in Southeast Asia. Curated byartist Yason Banal and Geralyn Huxley, curator of film & video at The Andy Warhol Museum, this exhibition focuseson the artist’s seminal motion and moving pictures, from his structuralist masterpieces Empire, Sleep and Chelsea
Girls to the conceptual experiments in portraiture such as the Screen Tests, Blow Job and Outer and Inner Space, as
well as explorations into narrative, celebrity and archive via Imitation of Christ and Factory Diaries. The installation
Silver Clouds, traversing cinema and sculpture, performance and philosophy, hovers above the exhibition.

Andy Warhol
The Chelsea Girls, 1966
16mm film, black and white, silent, 204 minutes indouble screen©2012 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA,a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
Film still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum

From the time he obtained his first film camera in 1963 until hisdeath in 1987, Warhol produced nearly 650 films that capture
the cultural milieu in which he lived and worked as the cool andcurious coterie of friends and acquaintances, hanging on andhanging out at his New York studio factory became the cast andthe subject of his work. Warhol’s Cinema is unique; projectingfrom film’s grave with video transfers on to digital media,
dexterous and shadowy, shy and shining, looming over andnudging Hollywood and avant-garde tastes with one minimaland durational serial-copy after another. Much like his paintings,sculptures and activities, Warhol’s Cinema inter-faces various

Andy Warhol

themes, styles and worlds and has never been more powerful

16mm film, black and white, silent, 41 minutes at 16 frames per second

and illuminating – its phantasmatic glamour, perverse aesthetic

Institute. All rights reserved.

and conceptual brevity continue to maintain and pass throughBlow Job, 1964
©2012 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie
Film still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum

contemporary pop life, lying between hellos and goodbyes,
staying still and moving on in space and time.

Andy Warhol
Blow Job, 1964
16mm film, black and white, silent, 41 minutes at 16 frames per second©2012 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie
Institute. All rights reserved.
Film still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Screen Test: Bob Dylan, 1966

Screen Test: Nico, 1966

16mm film, black and white, silent, 4 minutes at 16 frames per second

16mm film, black and white, silent, 4 minutes at 16 frames per second©2012 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA,©2012 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie

a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Institute. All rights reserved.

Film still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum

Film still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum

TalksDate: 16 December 2012, 1:00-3:00pm

Moderators: Yason Banal (Artist and Curator)
Cosmin Costinas (Executive Director/Curator of Para/Site Art Space)
Talkers:
Eric Shiner (Director of The Andy Warhol Museum)
Giorgio Biancorosso (Associate Professor, Music Department,
The University of Hong Kong)
Ming Wong (Artist)
Cao Fei (Artist)
Sandy Ma (Specialist in Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Christie’s)Roger Garcia (Executive Director, Hong Kong International Film Festival Society)To accompany the screenings we believe it is vital to stage a live discussion, and by a variety of voices at that, ofWarhol’s films. This is because no single body of film work responds to the circumstances of reception as productively,and unpredictably, as Warhol’s films do. To screen a Warhol film is to ‘perform’ it and to discuss it is not simply toplay or re-play it but to reactivate its haunting presence. Our round table, therefore, will not consist of a reading ofscripted texts but rather the re-working of ideas and impressions not only in the presence of others but also, and justas important, the presence of the films themselves in the gallery. The films are porous and call for endless remakes,
as it were; this turns the audience into makers of a sort.
For all their vulnerability to the vagaries of individual response and specific venues, the films also confront us withsome hard facts – prime among them is the materiality of the medium. Be it the film, light, surface, or projection
apparatus, we are time and again made aware of the arte-factual nature of the people, objects, and places we see(and hear) on the screen. The effect can be hilarious, veer toward the prosaic, or verge on the sublime, as when theobjecthood of a prop or the reality of an emotion recorded by the camera hit us with unremitting force. Nothing cannegotiate the liminal space between the material and the immaterial, and put it to a test, as a much as a live discussion
among people in the flesh.
Central to this live discussion of Warhol’s work is also its locale - Hong Kong. For the time seems ripe, not only
for echoing here in Hong Kong some of the ideas germinating around Warhol’s film work but jump in as agents ofchange. That is why we aim to create a dialogue among some of the people closest to the geographical and spiritual
center of Warhol’s art – New York – but also cast them alongside artists, curators, and market representatives who,while deeply aware of, or indebted to, Warhol’s legacy, are based in Asia.

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Exhibition
Exhibition Title

Hello It’s Me, Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema

Brief

The exhibition Hello It’s Me, Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema focuses on the artist’s
motion and moving pictures, from his structuralist masterpieces Empire, Sleep andChelsea Girls, to experiments in portraiture such as Screen Tests, Blow Job and Outerand Inner Space, as well as explorations into narrative, celebrity and video via imitationof Christ and Factory Diaries. The works’ phantasmatic presence and conceptual
departures maintain and haunt, Warhol’s Cinema in-between life and death, stillness andwithdrawal.

CuratorYason Banal, Geralyn Huxley

Presenter

Osage Art Foundation
The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburg

Sponsors

Lead Sponsor: BNY Mellon
Equipment Sponsor: Epson Hong Kong Limited

Exhibition Venue

Osage Kwun Tong

Address

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

Exhibition Date

16 December 2012 – 14 February 2013

Opening Hours

10:30am – 7pm daily (except public holidays)

WorksScreen Tests- John Ashberry- Nico- Freddy Herko- Susan Bottomly- Jim Rosenquist- Bob Dylan- Paul Thek
- Jonas Mekas- Susan Sontag- Mary Woronov- Paul America- Ondine- Gerard Malanga

Films- Empire- Sleep- Blow Job- Kiss- Outer and Inner Space- Chelsea Girls- Henry Geldzahler- Imitation of Christ

Factory Diaries- Jane’s Baby Shower- Candy Darling, Sylvia and Dorrian Gray on the Set of Women inRevolt- Lana Jokel Cooks a Chinese Dinner- Jackie Curtis Interview- Cybill Shepherd Interviewed- Udo Kier interviewed by Bob Colacello and Monique Van Vooren- John Waters / Divine Promo for Female Trouble- David Bowie at The Factory- Ingrid Superstar at The Factory- Marisa Berenson in Her Hotel Room
- Liza Minelli at The Factory- Dehlia Dougherty Shows Clothes to Brigid Berlin- Brigid Polk Showing Polaroids of Andy
Silver Clouds
TalksTime

16 December 2012, 1:00 – 3:00pm

Panel Guest

Moderators

Yason Banal (Artist and Curator)
Cosmin Costinas (Executive Director/Curator of Para/Site ArtSpace)

Talkers

Eric Shiner (Director of The Andy Warhol Museum)
Cao Fei (Artist)
Ming Wong (Artist)
Giorgio Biancorosso (Associate Professor, Music Department,
The University of Hong Kong)
Roger Garcia (Executive Director, Hong Kong InternationalFilm Festival Society)
Sandy Ma (Specialist in Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art)ABOUT THE CURATORS
Yason Banal
Yason Banal’s work moves between performance, installation, photography, video and text, taking myriad forms
and conceptual strategies in order to explore, perhaps even trigger, suppressed associations and links. He
obtained a BA in Film at the University of the Philippines, an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College-Universityof London. He is a visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University and Tokyo National University of Fine
Art and Music. His works have been exhibited at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Caixa Forum, Frieze Art Fair, IFA
Berlin, Courtauld Institute, Guangzhou Triennale, Singapore Biennale, Oslo Kunsthall, Yerba Buena Center forthe Arts, and just recently at the Shanghai Biennale and Queens Museum of Art. He also teaches
Experimental Cinema at the University of the Philippines and runs the concept space Strike Anyspacewhatever
Trading.

Geralyn Huxley
Geralyn Huxley, Curator of Film and Video at The Andy Warhol Museum, has been a film programmer andcurator since 1977. At the Warhol Museum since its opening in 1994, she has curated numerous film and video
programs by Andy Warhol, as well as a Paul Morrissey retrospective and screenings of new work by other film
artists. She also oversees the maintenance and preservation of the museum's extensive collection of original
Warhol video tapes and is currently working on a project to digitize the complete Andy Warhol film archive. She
has co-curated Warhol Museum exhibitions, including Warhol & Jackie: Crafting the End of Camelot, focusing
on the hours of film footage, both home movies and unedited news coverage, that documented the assassinationof John F. Kennedy and I Just Want to Watch: Warhol's Film, Video, and Television, the largest installation ofWarhol film and video. She is co-author of Andy Warhol 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol Museum Collection andAndy Warhol Treasures, as well as numerous essays.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Cosmin Costinas
Cosmin Costinas (b. 1982, Romania) is the Executive Director/Curator of Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong. Hewas the Curator of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands (2008-2011), co-curator (with Ekaterina
Degot and David Riff) of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, entitled Shockworkers of the Mobile Image,
Ekaterinburg, 2010, and Editor of documenta 12 Magazines, Kassel/Vienna (2005‡2007). He is an advisoryboard member of Patterns/Erste Foundation, Vienna, Austria. He co-authored the novel Philip (2007) and has
contributed his writing to numerous magazines, books, and exhibition catalogs across the world. Costinas hastaught and lectured at different universities and art academies in Europe and Asia. Other curatorial projects
include: Acts of Voicing (with Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ and Christine Peters), WurttembergischerKunstverein Stuttgart (2012, upcoming); After the Final Simplification of Ruins. Forms of historiography ingiven places, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2009; The Demon of Comparisons,
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2009; Like an AttaliReport, but Different. On Fiction and Political Imagination, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2008; and Textground,
Display Gallery, Prague, 2004.

ABOUT THE TALKERS
Eric Shiner
Eric C. Shiner is the Director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. His scholarly focus is on the conceptof bodily transformation in postwar Japanese photography, painting and performance art. Shiner was an assistantcurator of the Yokohama Triennale 2001, Japan's first ever large-scale exhibition of international contemporaryart, and the curator of Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York at Japan Society in 2007.
He is an active writer and translator, a contributing editor for Art AsiaPacific magazine, and was most recently
adjunct professor of art history at Cooper Union, Pace University and Stony Brook University. Shiner's
hometown is New Castle, PA. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy in The History of Art & Architecture andJapanese Language & Literature from Pitt Honors College in 1994, an M.A. in The History of Art from Osaka
University in 2001, and another M.A. in The History of Art from Yale in 2003.

Cao Fei
Graduated from the Affiliated Middle School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (1997), Guangzhou Academyof Fine Arts (2001), CAO is acknowledged as one of the key artists of a new generation emerging from Mainland
China. Her works varied from multimedia installations, videos, films, photography to performance, reflecting on
the rapid and chaotic changes that are occurring in Chinese society today. Her recent project RMB CITY (20082011), a virtual city constructed in the popular 3D online game “Second Life”, has been exhibited in Deutsche
Guggenheim (2010)，Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2009), Serpentine Gallery, London (2008), Yokohama
Triennale (2008). I. Mirror by China Tracy, 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), Chinese Pavilion. Cao Fei also
participated in 17th & 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006/2010), Moscow Biennale (2005), Shanghai Biennale(2004), 50th Venice Biennale (2003).

She is the finalist of Hugo Boss Prize 2010 and Victor Pinchuk

Foundation The Future Generation Art Prize 2010, and won The 2006 Best Young Artist Award by CCAA
(Chinese Contemporary Art Award). www.caofei.com.

Ming Wong
Singapore-born and Berlin-based, artist builds layers of cinematic language, social structure, identity andintrospection through his own re-telling of world cinema.Diploma of Fine Arts (Chinese Art) at Nanyang Academy ofFine Arts, Singapore; MFA (Fine Art Media) at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Soloexhibitions had been held globally in Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Frye Art Museum, Washington,
USA; Singapore Art Museum etc. Singapore representative of the 2009 53rd Venice Biennale Singapore Pavilion, hispresentation ‘Life of Imitation’ wong the Special Mention Awards (Expanding Worlds) of The 53rd Venice Biennale
International Jury. He will have a new solo exhibition at the Sheiseido Gallery in Tokyo in 2013.
www.mingwong.org.

Roger Garcia
Roger Garcia graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Leeds. He was director of the Hong KongInternational Film Festival in the late 1970s. He has served as consultant and juror on many international film
festivals in the US, Europe and Asia. His articles and books on cinema have been published by Asiaweek, BritishFilm Institute, Cahiers du Cinema, Far East Film Festival Udine, Film Comment, Variety among others. As
producer he has worked on studio pictures in Hollywood and experimental and independent films in Asia. His
television work includes creating and producing the first program on Asian and Asian American cinema forComcast cable TV in the US. He has been executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival
Society since 2010.

Giorgio Biancorosso
Giorgio Biancorosso holds a PhD in Musicology from Princeton University and was a postdoctoral fellow at theSociety of Fellows, Columbia University. He now teaches Music and Film Studies at the University of Hong
Kong and is an invited speaker regionally and globally on music and the arts. Biancorosso is completing MusicalAesthetics Through Cinema for Oxford University Press.

Sandy Ma

Sandy Ma began her career at Christie’s in 2008 and is a specialist in the Asian 20th Century and Contemporary
Art Department at Christie’s in Hong Kong. Sandy focuses on client advisory and business getting in Hong Kongand overseas, and is responsible for research, cataloguing, exhibition and auction. Sandy received her B.A. in Art
History and Studio in Painting from Colby College, Maine, USA, and studied Art and Archaeology at the Schoolof Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2007. Sandy is fluent in English, Cantonese andMandarin.
Christie’s, the world's leading art business, is a name and place that speaks of extraordinary art, unparalleledservice and expertise, as well as international glamour. Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie's has sinceconducted the greatest auctions through the centuries providing a popular showcase for the unique and thebeautiful. Christie’s has a global presence with 53 offices in 32 countries and 10 salerooms around the world.

ABOUT ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol's birth, The Warhol is one of the mostcomprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh. Additional information about The Warhol is available at www.warhol.org.

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ABOUT OSAGE ART FOUNDATIONThe Osage Art Foundation (OAF), established in 2004, works in the areas of cultural exchange, educational
outreach and the building of knowledge. Since 2005, OAF has been promoting cross-cultural understanding
through art exhibitions between Hong Kong, China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Myanmar and Thailand.
OAF exhibitions develop from substantial research, aim to make strong statements about significant as well as
emerging artists, and to provide regional platforms for innovative curatorial perspectives. Meanwhile, OAF
supports and encourages the local art development by art educational projects, share art with the community andmake it an important role in daily life. Even today, while the arts from Asia have become increasingly visible
both within this part of the world, and globally, the exchanges between artists in Asia are too often mediated byglobal centres in Europe and North America. OAF recognizes that more needs to be done to develop the culturalconversations happening within Asia.
Osage Art Foundation is part of the Osage Group encompassing the Osage Gallery, Osage Art Consultancy andOsage Design. Please visit www.oaf.cc for more information.

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