Art HK 2011 Retrospective 4

One could only gape with one's mouth wide open at what some artists may be doing.

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This appears to be a crouching human figure made with feathers, his "hands" looking more like horses hooves than human hands. A human crow by Simon Schubert. 2010?

All the figures in this painting look sad, their heads bowed, weighed down by sorrow or overcome with despair?

This painting looks like a collage of parts of several other paintings depicting various tropical motifs..

So is this, but containing certain motifs from a colder clime.

This artist is fond of mixing man and animals and birds.

riding a cock as if it were a horse.

A man with a feathered pot for head!

A laughing man with another man crawling out of his mouth beneath a rose and a human-like bee.

A pure play of forms by wires in straight lines, curves and angles..

A structure of bamboos, strings, straw mats and light.

Another view of the same structure: pure play of forms.

A sculpture in metal: a tightened noose. Two phallic symbols tied together?

Whilst some sculptures are placed on pedestals, others are hung from a wall. Some aquatic animals or fishes done in corrugated metal called Tempest (Juliet) by Lynda Benglis 1990.

Another piece from the same artist.

Another view of the same.

Some sculptures are hung in the air like those of Alexander Calder. This one looks like just so many looping lines and curves.



forming different abstract patterns whose shapes keep changing while the structure swings in the air

until from one particular perspective, it looks like the figure of a human head with eyes, nose and lips!

Another such figure

Its shape keeps changing. Is that not the way we look at other people: our view can never stay the same from moment to moment.

Whilst other sculptors may use metal, Tao Xue uses old newspapers which he twists together into the form of ropes which roll around each other and pile on top of each other into a little mountain. Is that not our world, a world formed and tied together by news?

A human figure formed by some such paper ropes.