“After Urban Garden” Gerard Hemsworth Solo Exhibition
Moon Gallery proudly presents “After Urban Garden”, a Solo exhibition featuring the Paintings and Prints of this very important British contemporary artist Gerard Hemsworth.
Being a leading artist for over 40 years, personally trained many Turner prizewinners and nominees. Gerard Hemsworth (Professor of Art in Goldsmiths College) is definitely one of the most influential figures in British Contemporary Art Scene.
This exhibition involves both paintings and prints that touch upon the theme of gardens that have preoccupied Hemsworth in recent years. The works reprise a range of his standard figurations: bunnies, cartoon figures, schematically drawn mushrooms, grass, rocks and rain, all set upon fields of dense matt color.
Hemsworld is a happy place, populated by figures drawn from children’s colouring books doing child-like, innocent things. Yet at the same time, both the images themselves and the titles given to the works often suggest that something is ever so slightly amiss. There is seldom anything more than a suggestion of this, but it is there nonetheless. This then brings us to one part of the semiotic complexity of Hemsworld. It is a sort of paradise lost. The smooth flawless forms, the pared down simplicity of the images, the lack of any external corrupting elements, all suggest a perfect pop art paradise.
“After Urban Garden” is Gerard Hemsworth’s first solo exhibition in Asia. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see this very important British contemporary artist in Hong Kong. It is a not-to-be-missed exhibition for art lovers.
Moon Gallery Hong Kong continues to be the leading gallery to promote Japanese, Korean, British and Chinese contemporary art, and to exhibit the most influential artists of today and tomorrow.
Other Critic on Hemsworth’s works:
‘In (Hemsworth’s) painting(s) it is possible to demonstrate an alternative within the image itself. This paradoxical simultaneity within the painted image, as a strategy for generating meaning, remains difficult to translate into other media. This does not destroy the image, on the contrary: it concurs with its essence.’ Philippe Pirotte, Director Kunsthalle Bern
‘The confounding of abstraction and figuration, depth and surface, formalism and gratification, gratification and anxiety, expert and child, this simultaneous and multi-faceted indeterminacy and democracy of interests is not only what you see in Hemsworth’s pictures but also of what you see of yourself in them...’
Suhail Malik
‘By constructing an innocent world that turns out not to be innocent at all, Hemsworth offers us paintings about silly subjects that raise a host of complex possible meanings and questions. This contradiction is wonderfully seductive. ’
Dr Richard Noble, Head of Department in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College
Opening Reception: 19 October, 2010. (Fri) 7:00pm (Artist will be in attendance)
Exhibition Period: 20 October 2010 – 18 December 2010
Opening Hours: 11:00am – 6:00pm, Closed on Sunday and Public Holiday
Mr. Hemsworth kindly agree to come to Hong Kong in November, if you would like to arrange an interview with Mr. Hemsworth, or to obtain more information about the exhibition, please contact Miss Annie Lai at 2858 1771 or email to [email protected]
| Date | 2010/10/20 - 2010/12/18 |
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