Still catching up with Hong Kong art week, we're bringing you an overview of this year's Art Central fair that took place at the central harborfront between 27th and 31st of March 2019. The five-day programme included performance art, large scale installations, and talks, and the fair presentations featured 107 leading galleries from 22 countries, showcasing a variety of contemporary art.
From brand new works by young emerging talents from around the globe to secondary market pieces by the likes of KAWS, Nara, Kusama, and other local's favorites, Art Central offered a wide selection of artwork for anyone's taste. With a bit of accent on works based on process and technology behind it, as well as a notable selection of "Instagram-friendly" works, we enjoyed discovering some new names and seeing new or old works of our long-time favorites.
One of the highlights of the fair was the humorous work by Korean painter Kwon Neung who offered a different look at the current and historic side of the art world with panoramic views of Art Basel fair attended by art history icons or alternative portraits by the Dutch masters. We also enjoyed the textured, patched up works by Lim Dongseung, surreal compositions by Teng-Yuan Chang, burnt oil canvases by Ryoki Kurasaki, dreamy settings by Chia-Ying Chang, playful wooden sculptures by Daisuke Teshima, and effective abstract creations by Tsuyoshi Maekawa to name a few. Paris-based Galerie LJ presented a new series of works by Andrew Schoultz and Mu Pan among others, while local powerhouse Over The Influence presented the works by Ryan Travis Christian on the first day, and then introduced some other new additions to their impressive roster of artists, such as Parra, Michael Kagan, Jonathan Chapline, So Youn Lee, Andy Dixon, etc.
Text and photos by @SashaBogojev