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Norio Imai

NORIO IMAI

Time Scape Axel Vervoordt Gallery 2 September–4 November 2023 Hong Kong
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Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Norio Imai in our Hong Kong space. The exhibition, ‘Time Scape’, focusses on the artist’s vintage photographs of landscape and portraits, as well as video work from the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition features ‘Video Age’, a new installation created specifically for the exhibition. This is Imai’s first solo show outside of Japan that highlights his photographs and video works, which explore the changes in the Japanese economy and society that accompanied the rapid economic growth period. With a constant interest in the ever-changing time and space, Imai attempts to visually reveal the invisible subject of time through experimenting with photography and video, under the theme of accumulation and visualisation of time.

About the Artist

Since the very start of his artistic career, Norio Imai has challenged the dogma of artistic convention. He creates bulbous reliefs that exist somewhere in-between object and painting. By placing material underneath the surface of his works, Imai creates monumental monochrome white paintings out of almost nothing. He considers white to be the ultimate colour, a non-colour that combines all colours in perfect harmony. Imai often repaints his work with an additional layer of paint to preserve the depth and purity of the whiteness. To him, white is a landscape made up of nothingness and emptiness.

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21F, Coda Designer Centre
62, Wong Chuk Hang Road
Entrance via Yip Fat Street (next to Ovolo Hotel)
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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Hong Kong 21F, Coda Designer Centre, 62, Wong Chuk Hang Road
Axel Vervoordt Gallery contemporary art gallery in Hong Kong
Axel Vervoordt Gallery
21F, Coda Designer Centre, 62, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Entrance via Yip Fat Street (next to Ovolo Hotel), Hong Kong, Hong Kong
+852 250 322 20
http://www.axel-vervoordt.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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