TARO NASU presents a group exhibition by following 6 artists, Marcel Broodthaers, Koichi Enomoto, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Ryoji Ikeda, and Mika Tajima along with the latest works from their representative series. Ryoji Ikeda will be highlighted in Kabinett sector.
Marcel Broodthaers is known as a leader of conceptual art. Although he started his career as a poet, he was impressed by surrealist art, and in 1964 he professed to had decided to become from a poet to an artist. Since then, he has expanded and evolved the realm of contemporary art by producing works with a critical spirit against the frameworks and conventions of the world surrounding art, using a variety of techniques such as painting, sculpture, and video.
Koichi Enomoto is a Japanese painter who is known for figurative paintings. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide, Enomoto who has been keen on the social condition surrounding him, fumbled for how we could continue behaving as humans. Since the period of time, the artist has started portrayed people with bright faces that can be found in most of paintings shown.
ABHK 2024 will be also an opportunity to see the latest works by Simon Fujiwara from the series “Who the Bær”. Fujiwara uses the medium of a quest story, in which his invented an original character is searching for its identity, to expand on identity issues among contemporary people unsettled by themes such as gender diversity and persistent ongoing racial discrimination.
Ryan Gander is known as a standard-bearer for new conceptual art. He transforms everyday materials into the universal phenomenon by using his unique and suggestive methods for the creation, including startling combinations, fictional settings, partial concealment of information. TARO NASU will showcase his new work using the form of a door and a sculptural mirror & marble piece.
Electronic music composer Ryoji Ikeda is also an active artist, whose experiments with visual renderings of auditory experiences have drawn him into the video space. In a world defined by constant fragmentation and realignment in the name of diversity, Ikeda employs the sheer vastness of space, which dwarfs mere human existence, as a means to explore what it is to be human and chart a course toward a new form of humanism. The “data.gram” series uses the motifs of quantum physics, genetic information, and the universe with a pluralistic microcosm of his works depicting the world surrounding human beings.
Mika Tajima has been producing a variety of artistic forms to conceptualize the ways in which technology permeates every aspect of modern life, using very different media. In “Negative Entropy” series, Tajima uses Jacquard pattern textile panels generated from sound recordings of production activity in industrial settings such as factories and office workplaces; another representative series “Art d'Ameublement” are made of acrylic & spray paint based on exploration of uncharted territory via Google Maps. Yet at their core, these works all convey the common theme of interaction between the individual and society.
28–30 March 2024
Vernissage
Wednesday 27 March, 4pm–8pm
Public Days
Thursday 28 March, 2pm–8pm
Friday 29 March, 2pm–8pm
Saturday 30 March, 1pm–7pm
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
1 Expo Dr, Wan Chai,
Hong Kong