Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
This September, Pace Hong Kong will present Hong Hao’s latest solo exhibition. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery after exhibitoin “Reflection”, held in 2015. This exhibition will present the artist’s latest works from 2016 and 2017, which can be seen as an important thread marking the artist’s future developmental trajectory. The artist reception will be open to the public on September 7 from 6:00–8:00pm.
Hong Hao (b. 1965, Beijing, China) graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 1989. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing. Much of Hong Hao’s work features assembled scanned images of various found objects including maps, books, tickets, receipts, banknotes, food, and containers. In his 2009 solo exhibition “Hong Hao: Bottom” at Beijing Commune, the artist exhibited a series that features the bottom half of everyday objects. By arranging the scanned images according to their forms and colors, he destructs the functional property of the materials and reproduces an undifferentiated, flattened, deliberately superficial world of aesthetics. While Hong Hao continues to work with found objects, ”AS IT IS,” his recent solo exhibition at Beijing Commune, deals with the physical forms in a more straightforward manner, creating an interesting dialectic development of both the vocabulary and concept of his art.
