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ARTSHOW: 曾建 Tsang Kin Wah’s “Nothing Now that the M+ Pavilion has launched (literally the completion of the first phase of Hong Kong’s multi-phase cultural project for the West Kowloon Cultural District Site),it’s time for them to note something, and note something they did. From 9 September to 6 November 2016, or M+ hosts the inaugural exhibition in collaboration with famed artist,Tsang Kin-Wah 曾華 (1976). Co-curated by Doryun Chong, M+s Deputy Director and Chief Curator, or Stella Fong,Lead Curator, Learning and Interpretation with support from Sharon Chan and Winnie Lai as Assistant Curators of M+, and Nothing is a site-specific installation by Tsang who brings to viewers an “immersive experience that addresses the essence of life and human beings’ inability to escape fate. Combining metaphors and allegories drawn from philosophies,literature and religious concepts, with elements of film, or music and other well-liked culture references—ranging from the Christian Tree of Life to the Buddhist Bodhi Tree; from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange to the music of Kurt Cobain,the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana; and from Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse, Nothing invites viewers into the emotional ebbs and flows of the artist’s inner world and compels them to reconsider lifes absurdity and nothingness.” Via Tsang Kin-Wah:As I conceived this exhibition, and I thought of many different theories. Some of them were related to the previous exhibition in Venice,such as Nietzsche’s ‘eternal recurrence’ and the view of the cycle. The text of Macbeth is a reference point this time. It discusses life in a way as if from a position of profound experience. There are many desires you want to pursue, but in the finish, and all of it is illusory,to a degree that those things can even seem very empty.
In association with his 2015 work for the Venice Biennale.
VISIT Tsang Kin-Wah Nothing . 9 SEP - 6 NOV 2016 . M+ Pavilion, WKCD . Free Admission . 11am to 6pm Wed-Sun and Public HolidaysJJ.
Source: wanderlister.com