Venerable UK fine arts dealer Ben Brown has opened a Hong Kong gallery, which is good news to me, and to anyone else in here who is tiring of the Chinese contemporary art scene. They have a space above Shanghai Tang in Central, which I'm yet to check out. However, I saw the temporary space they have in IFC over the weekend with an exhibition of Ron Arad's pieces that will be there until the end of this month. These were a few of my favorite pieces....
Box in Four Movements, 1994-98Patinated and stainless steel, Edition of 20
Ping Pong Table, 2008
Mirror-polished stainless steel and polished bronze, Edition of 6
Two Legs and a Table, 1989
Patinated and Stainless Steel, Edition of 20
This piece in particular is quite stunning up close. I might have to put this one on my wish list for my new office!
7 comments:
mr. arad has such an amazing way with shaping metal volumes into functional art. i'd love to have 70k to drop on one of his "big heavy" or "big easy" chairs in polished steel! worth every penny (in my active imagination). ;-)
I totally agree!
You have to check out Ben Brown's space at pedder building - it is designed by Andre Fu of Upperhouse fame! I am pleased that Hong Kong finally has an art space of international flavour - great proportions, layered and truely refined.
Hi Jennifer - I finally saw it last week. A stunning space in a stunning building, and so many fantastic high calibre pieces! Yay for HK!
Are there any more views of this table it relly looks just great who is the designer
Hi Anon, the designer is Ron Arad. You could always look at the Ben Brown Fine Arts website (which is linked in the post) or Ron Arad's website (www.ronarad.com) for further pics.
Thank you for the plug! Looks good.
Whitney from Ben Brown Fine Arts
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