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Neo Rauch

NEO RAUCH

Field Signs David Zwirner 16 November 2023–24 February 2024 Hong Kong
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by German artist Neo Rauch at its Hong Kong location. Widely celebrated as one of the most influential figurative painters working today, Rauch is known for richly colored and elaborate paintings that contain a repertoire of invented characters, settings, objects, and motifs. At once realistic and familiar, enigmatic and inscrutable, his paintings often hint at broader narratives and histories—seemingly reconnecting with the artistic traditions of realism—yet they are dreamlike and frequently contain disparate and overlapping spaces and forms.

This presentation follows his 2021 solo exhibition The Signpost at David Zwirner New York and marks his second solo show at the Hong Kong gallery, following his 2019 exhibition Propaganda. His work is the subject of the 2023 solo exhibition The Dream of Reason at Montpellier Contemporain, France, and Neo Rauch: Die Mitte, which was on view at Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, in the Netherlands, in 2022.

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About the Artist

Neo Rauch’s paintings are characterized by their distinctive combination of figurative imagery and surrealist abstraction. His enigmatic compositions employ an eccentric iconography of human characters, animals, and hybrids within familiar-looking but imaginary settings. While each work is begun without a preconceived idea of the finished result, there is a uniquely recognizable, visual coherence to his overall oeuvre. Paintings often display palettes of strong, complementary colors, and recurrent subjects include the seamless integration of organic and non-organic elements as well as references to the creative process, music, and manual labor. The artist’s treatment of scale is deliberately arbitrary and non-perspectival, and often seems to allude to different time zones or planes of existence.

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About the Gallery
Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today, and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.
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5-6/F, H Queen's
80 Queen's Road Central
Hong Kong
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Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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Hong Kong 5-6/F, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central
David Zwirner contemporary art gallery in Hong Kong
David Zwirner
5-6/F, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
+852 211 959 00
http://www.davidzwirner.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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