石家豪：试身室
开幕酒会：2009年11月28日18:00
画廊营业时间：周二-周日10:00–18:00
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展览地址：奥沙画廊 上海虹口区多伦路93号 （靠近多伦现代美术馆）
奥沙画廊呈献石家豪最新作品《试身室》系列。石家豪无疑是香港最负盛名的当代艺术家之一。他以传统的中国艺术形式-工笔，探讨现今的社会问题。如同其它社会一样，香港正经历转型的阶段，在石家豪最新的《试身室》系列中，他以香港流行文化标志延续对由此而生的身份议题的探索并透过外观和包装来反映文化在不同媒体中的转化。香港著名影星周润发和张曼玉在这里登场，他们从本地演艺人跃升为好莱坞名流。这要求他们摆脱旧习、换上新包装、学习陌生的口音来晋身电影世界的国际场景，这为作品加添了另一层意义。即使放下了惯常使用的宣纸和绢，石家豪亦保持一贯细致的表现手法。他以塑胶彩、蜡笔、铅笔和拼贴呈现了他对衣饰与意识间不同层面的思考。“转化”这一概念在这大社会试身室内各式各样打扮换装的过程中得到进一步实践及活化。
石家豪1970年生于香港，以性别、角色扮演、服装和文化象征等当代题材的中国工笔人物画为人所熟悉。重要展览包括：澳洲布里斯本昆士兰美术馆《第三届亚洲太平洋当代艺术三年展》（1999），美国加州圣迪戈美术馆《Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia》(2004)，香港艺术馆《新水墨艺术﹣创造、超越、翱翔》（2008）。2009年1月，他与京都木版雕刻家川昭一北村制作《音乐家庭》，并于新加坡泰勒版画院展出该套浮世绘风格的版画。
Wilson Shieh: Fitting Room
28.11.2009 – 31.01.2010
Osage Galley is pleased to present Fitting Room, Wilson Shieh’s latest body of work. Shieh is, without doubt, one of Hong Kong’s most established and significant contemporary artists. His works engages with issues pertinent to our contemporary societies. In his Fitting Room series, Shieh extends these concerns through icons of Hong Kong popular culture to explore issues of identity that have risen from the transition of which societies such as Hong Kong are currently undergoing.
Shieh considers clothing as a ‘space of appearance’ in which subjectivity gains presence. The element of the famous Hong Kong stars Chow Yun Fat and Maggie Cheung adds another dimension to this reflection because it introduces their own history of mutation from local performers to Hollywood celebrities. This, too, had required Chow and Cheung to shed old habits and assume new skin, learn a strange accent, and finally come to belong to a global world gathered by the cinema. In this exhibition, Shieh departs from his exceptional use of the Chinese fine brush technique on silk and paper, through he retains its delicate signs. He demonstrates levels of mediation of clothing and consciousness through acrylic, crayon, graphite, and collage of prints. In this variety of media, the idea of transformation is further fleshed out in the process of dressing up, preening in, and getting out of the fitting rooms of society.
Wilson Shieh, born 1970 in Hong Kong, is known for his work in Chinese gongbi style figure painting, with contents of sexuality, role play, costume play and cultural symbols presented in a contemporary approach. Important exhibitions include the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (1999), Past-in-Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA, (2004) and New Ink Art: Innovationa and Beyond, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (2008). In January 2009, he collaborated with the Kyoto-based woodblock carver Kitamura Shoichi to produce Music Families, Shieh’s exhibition at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute featuring a set of Ukiyo-e style woodblock prints.
