03h Nov 2009

　　For immediate release

　　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.

　　About Osage

　　Osage is Asia’s largest international gallery group with major exhibition spaces in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. Osage represents some of the most outstanding artists in Asia and works closely with a variety of internationally respected curators, critics and art historians to present and promote exhibitions that address fundamental global issues.

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