CoBo’s Director, Selina Ting, met with artist Samson Young and Curator Kwok Ying for a Live from Venice Session on the 2017 Hong Kong Pavilion, Songs for Disaster Relief.
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Video Talk: Luc Tuymans and Frank Demaegd
Selina Ting speaks to artist Luc Tuymans & founder of Zeno X Gallery Frank Demaegd on the keys to a long lasting relationship between artists and dealers, at CoBo Challenge at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017
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Why Are Artists Violent People? – Vishal K. Dar Answers
“Artists are violent people. I will debate that point with any artist who claims they are not violent. I think that artists are deeply violent because we try to stay so honest to ourselves. That honesty kills us”, said the Delhi-based, US-educated artist Vishal K. Dar (b. 1976) whose installation work Maruts – Storm Dieties (2016) is currently…
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Samson Young 楊嘉輝：自成一樂
古典樂出身的楊嘉輝，半隻腳在音樂廳；半隻腳在白盒子，遊刃於五線譜，但更醉心於突破框框，以自創的音樂系統自由遊走於聲音與視覺，建制內外也是他的表演場地。
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蔣志：內在的風景
蔣志在魔金石空間的最新展覽「注定」，其錄像裝置在同一個空間中放了兩個螢幕呈現：一邊是一對男女幾近自虐式的身體探索；另一邊卻是荒無一人的陌生星球，分別了精神和象徵兩個世界。放在螢幕前的LED燈箱，滾動著文字，成為了解讀錄像的一條線索。
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The Collector’s House – Hans Op de Beeck
For many art fair trotters, the Art Basel Unlimited is the most enjoyable sector of the whole fair business. Its popularity and success has prompted other fairs to adopt the same strategy of giving space (though in a more modest manner) for ambitious museum-like presentations which are not necessarily marketable but are good for marketing.…
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Shumon Ahmed — New Conceptualist of Bangladeshi Art Scene
Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1977, Shumon Ahmed came to international attention in 2014 with his photographic series Metal Graves, presented first at the Dhaka Art Summit in a show B-desh curated by French curator Deepak Anand, then at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India curated by Jitish Kallat. The public soon discovered the multi-facets of Ahmed’s…
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Ugo Rondinone – This Art is Timeless
This art is timeless.Some called it “primitive feel”; some called it “ancient contemporary”; some called it “transcending”… one thing for sure: this is timeless. The notion of time is essential to the art of the Swiss-born, New York-based artists Ugo Rondinone (*1964). Time for the artist is never linear but circular. It takes the form…
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Haroon Mirza
An artist operates within the visual realm by using sound as a material to make visible the otherwise invisible, Haroon Mirza upsets the distinction between sound, noise and music while pushing art towards the periphery of music. In the interview, Mirza talks about his new projects and shares with us his concepts of sound, noise and music in relation to the physical space and materials.
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Francesco Vezzoli
The Prince of Charm masters the technique of persuasion. Since his first appearance in the international art scene in the mid-1990s, Francesco Vezzoli (*1971, Brescia, Italy) has successfully enlisted celebrities to take part at his mega-spectacles: he cast Milla Jovovich, Courtney Love and Helen Mirren in a trailer for an non-existent remix of the X-rated…
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