“Gallery by the Harbour” collaborated with Fabrik Contemporary Art is pleased to present “POP ART HEAVYWEIGHTS” exhibition at the Gallery by the Harbour from April 2 to 19, 2011, showing works from POP ART heavyweights Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Romero Britto and Takashi Murakami.
The Pop Art movement, which began in the late 1950s, was rooted in the imagery of mass popular culture by themes and techniques found primarily in advertising, comic books, music and mundane cultural objects. It asserted that an artist’s use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture was contiguous with the perspective of fine art. This concept refers not only to the art itself but the attitudes that led to it.
Warhol’s most radical lesson is reflected in the work of artists of subsequent generations who, rather than simply representing or commenting upon our mass media culture, have infiltrated the publicity machine and the marketplace as a deliberate strategy. Harnessing the power of the celebrity system and expanding their reach beyond the art world and into the wider world of commerce, these artists employed mechanical processes to create their work rather than those traditionally associated with fine art and ultimately cultivated their own artistic personas creating their own signature ‘brands’.
The exhibition will include a mixture of original works, silkscreen prints, photogravure etchings and limited edition lithographs.
“Good business is the best art” - Andy Warhol
About Fabrik Contemporary Art
Established in 2007, Fabrik Contemporary Art, was conceived by three private collectors to acquire unique pieces with a focus on Contemporary Modern and Urban art. Fabrik is committed to being involved in putting Hong Kong at the forefront of the international arts scene by promoting exciting and new artists through “guerilla exhibitions” - a new concept in Hong Kong which means galleries with no fixed home that pop up in private homes or temporary spaces before moving onto another space. Most guerilla galleries operate using their website only as a showcase of their collection. However in 2008, after a successful Street Art show at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the partners decided to open a space in a non-descript industrial building in Lan Kwai Fong and showed the first contemporary Japanese art exhibition in Hong Kong. Since then, Fabrik Contemporary Art has curated shows and brought works that had never been shown locally. In 2009, Timeout HK and South China Morning Post hailed Fabrik Contemporary Art as one of the leading and most influential galleries specializing in contemporary art, changing the face of the art scene in Hong Kong.
