Osage Gallery is thrilled to be the first gallery from Hong Kong to be participating in Art Statements at Art Basel this year. Osage Gallery will be representing Hong Kong emerging artist Lee Kit.
Lee Kit graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003. He is best known for his works with hand-painted cloth. Lee claims: ‘Painting is the means to convey the faint consciousness resulted from our emotions.‘ His interest is to renew our self-identity by staging communal activities with his artworks in order to seek the uncanny meaning of art.
For Art Statements, Lee Kit creates a typical Hong Kong demonstration flat with a living room, a toilet, a bedroom, and a small kitchen. Various hand-painted cloths and cardboard paintings infiltrate this domestic prop for an imaginary character. Lee devises a situation that delves into our consciousness through seeing, feeling, acting, and simply being. Like a sudden epiphany, we are left to deal with our own emotions and memories privately.
Osage Gallery is an interdisciplinary platform devoted to the exhibition and promotion of international and Asian contemporary visual arts. Osage‘s spaces function synergistically to explore the diverse and complex artistic relationships between the different regions of Asia and, beyond that, the artistic relationships between Asia and other parts of the world. Osage provides a valuable platform for working with artists based in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries such as Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand; as well as international artists of Asian descent based outside the region. Osage views its mission as cooperating closely with international artists, curators, and critics to present exhibitions and projects that can meaningfully address issues relevant to the current moment.
In addition to organizing major group and thematic exhibitions, Osage has put on solo exhibitions by some of the most significant artists in Asia, such as Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Shen Shaomin, and Jiang Zhi from China, as well as other Asian artists such as Jane Lee (Singapore), Lee Kit (Hong Kong), Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand), Wilson Shieh (Hong Kong), and Charwei Tsai (Taiwan).
Further artists represented:
Poklong Anading
Yason Banal
Louie Cordero
Ho Tzu Nyen
Jiang Zhi
Jane Lee
Kingsley Ng
Donna Ong
Nipan Oranniwesna
Shen Shaomin
Wilson Shieh
Sun Yuan / Peng Yu
Maria Taniguchi
Charwei Tsai
Adrian Wong
