Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018 features over twenty artworks by promising local and international contemporary artists, including Michael Craig-Martin, Yayoi Kusama and Hank Willis Thomas
The art scene in the city continues to grow, with more and more art galleries, art museums and pottery workshops opening in Hong Kong. Running until 11 April, Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018, Hong Kong’s first international sculpture park, is officially open to the public at Central and Western District Promenade and Wan Chai. Featuring over twenty artworks, it hopes to introduces art into our everyday lives in a unique, and often humorous, way. Check out faves in the video below.
Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018
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Posted by Honeycombers Hong Kong on Thursday, 22 February 2018
Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018
One of the most iconic sculptures at Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018 is Gardenfork by Irish-British contemporary conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin. He translates illusionism by wonderfully demonstrating how two-dimensional drawings can be perceived as an object via the medium of sculpture. The colour looks stunning against the city backdrop, and we think it’s pretty apt subject matter for a city obsessed with food!
Before Collapse by Hong Kong visual artist Matthew Tsang Man Fu is a response to this ever-expanding world, regarding population, technology, economy and society. The feet represent one’s humanness, but also the fragility and melancholy that come with humanity.
Specifically designed for Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018, London-based artist Rasheed adopted a different approach to minimalism to explain the need for social mobility in public space through the repetition and stacking of the diagonally bisecting elements.
Surely a favourite for many visitors will be White Horse. British contemporary artist Mark Wallinger suggests the historic background of Hong Kong as a post-colonial city by illustrating Britain’s fondness for horse racing. This life-size work looks almost perfectly set against the park surroundings.
By mimicking the motion of twisting and dragging through his unique sculpture [[x]], local artist Ho Kwun Ting abstractly depicts the power relation and how one struggles to liberate him/herself.
The large-scale steel tree Truth Bubble Sign Tree is an interesting bilingual sculpture created by New York-based contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas. Each thought bubble features one word, and they can be put into the sentence “The truth is I love you”.
Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018 is presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre with support from lead partner H Queen’s by Henderson Development Limited and supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Harbour Arts Sculpture Park 2018, Central and Western District Promenade and Wan Chai
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