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ART HK 08

Li Wei, Mirror, Hong Kong, 2006
courtesy of 10 Chancery Lane Gallery and the artist

ART HK 08 – Hong Kong’s first international art fair in a decade
14 to 18 May (Preview 14 May)

http://www.hongkongartfair.com

Momentum is building for ART HK 08, Hong Kong’s first truly international art fair in a decade, which firmly establishes the city’s position as the centre of the art market in Asia. The inaugural fair is to be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 14 - 18 May 2008. The organisers have now announced the full list of galleries from 19 countries confirmed to exhibit.

Magnus Renfrew, Fair Director says “We are delighted to have signed-up such a prestigious roster of galleries. The Fair has received an overwhelming global response which we see as recognition of the fact that China is now firmly positioned as the third largest art market in the world. Hong Kong, with its unique gateway status between East and West, provides the perfect location for a new major fixture on the international art calendar.”

Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank, is Lead Sponsor of the Fair.

Works for sale at ART HK 08 will range from blue chip work by well-known artists, to more accessible pieces by emerging artists. The Fair will also include a curated exhibition of new artistic talent from Hong Kong, a series of talks ‘Hong Kong Conversations’ organized the Asia Art Archive and guided tours throughout the event.

On the opening day of the Fair, there will be an invitation-only preview, and the opening night reception, Vernissage, will aid the Hong Kong Cancer Fund. A one day conference organised by Asia Art Archive and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, entitled ‘Shifting Sites: Cultural Desire and the Museum’ takes place on the 17 May addressing the role of the museum in today’s cities. Speakers include Sheena Wagstaff, Chief Curator, Tate Modern and Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.

For the gallery list and more information http://www.hongkongartfair.com

Fair Dates
Wednesday 14 May
Press/VIP Preview, 3-6pm (Invitation only)
Vernissage, 6-9pm (Invitation and pre-booked tickets only)

Thursday 15 - Sunday 18 May
General Opening, 11am to 7pm

Venue
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Enquiries
info@hongkongartfair.com
Tel +852 2918 8793

Lead Sponsor:
Lehman Brothers

Museum of Contemporary
Art Tokyo (MOT)

Tadashi Kawamata”Walkway”
(C)ANZAI

Tadashi Kawamata [Walkway]
9 February 2008 - 13 April 2008

Museum of Contemporary
Art Tokyo (MOT)
4-1-1, Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022 JAPAN
Tel: +81 (0)3 5245 4111
Fax: +81 (0)3 5124 1141
http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/english
The exhibition’s official site:
http://www.kawamata.mot-art-museum.jp

Viewers, through their own movement, produce an exhibition that never ends.
What do people look at, in what way?
If there were a wall, how would it affect the flow of people?
In a certain place, people collect, sit down, make discoveries. . . .

Tracing Kawamata’s journey of the past 30 years, from 1978 to 2008, we see that his career has been a continuing attempt to connect–and be a “walkway” –between art and the everyday.

To turn the art museum into a “walkway”–such will be the nature of Kawamata’s new project this time. A walkway is an intermediate territory or threshold, a detour between two places, or else a contact zone. The art museum–something usually perceived as a storehouse or display area. By perceiving it as a “walkway” on which people come and go, how will Kawamata alter its spaces, its functions?

With this keyword, “walkway,” as a lamp, viewers will survey the works he has created since his student days, including projects unfinished and yet to begin. As they come and go on this “walkway,” furthermore, they will observe people holding meetings, laboring, and engaging in dialogue, and may even find involvement in such activity. Tadashi Kawamata’s “Walkway” is the practice of reconstructing experiences related to everyday life. Working without beginning or end, he creates an autonomous place in order to work free from limitation by goals or norms.

The exhibition is curated by Fumihiko Sumitomo, SeniorCurator, MOT.

The concept book for this exhibition including photo documents of Kawamata’s projects, snapshot photos and sketches with surveyed biography and bibliography is published from Bijutsu
Shuppan-Sha, Ltd.

For further information please contact Reiko Noguchi, Press Office, Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, Japan.

Email: r-noguchi@mot-art.jp Tel: +81 (0) 3-5245-1134 / Fax: +81 (0) 3-5245-1141,

Tadashi Kawamata [Walkway] was organized by: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture – Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Under the patronage of : Embassy of France
In cooperation with: Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.