Moon Gallery proudly presents “After Urban Garden”, a Solo exhibition featuring the Paintings and Prints of this very important British contemporary artist Gerard Hemsworth.

Being a leading artist for over 40 years, personally trained many Turner prizewinners and nominees. Gerard Hemsworth (Professor of Art in Goldsmiths College) is definitely one of the most influential figures in British Contemporary Art Scene.

This exhibition involves both paintings and prints that touch upon the theme of gardens that have preoccupied Hemsworth in recent years. The works reprise a range of his standard figurations: bunnies, cartoon figures, schematically drawn mushrooms, grass, rocks and rain, all set upon fields of dense matt color.

Hemsworld is a happy place, populated by figures drawn from children’s colouring books doing child-like, innocent things. Yet at the same time, both the images themselves and the titles given to the works often suggest that something is ever so slightly amiss. There is seldom anything more than a suggestion of this, but it is there nonetheless. This then brings us to one part of the semiotic complexity of Hemsworld. It is a sort of paradise lost. The smooth flawless forms, the pared down simplicity of the images, the lack of any external corrupting elements, all suggest a perfect pop art paradise.

“After Urban Garden” is Gerard Hemsworth’s first solo exhibition in Asia. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see this very important British contemporary artist in Hong Kong. It is a not-to-be-missed exhibition for art lovers.

Moon Gallery Hong Kong continues to be the leading gallery to promote Japanese, Korean, British and Chinese contemporary art, and to exhibit the most influential artists of today and tomorrow.

Opening Reception: 19 October, 2010. (Fri) 7:00pm (Artist will be in attendance)