ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Balance Sheets
Balance Sheets is an international group show that draws out relationships between ideas of balance in aesthetics, economics and ecological thinking. Is part of the curatorial projects of Edouard Malingue Gallery, bringing together these works, the exhibition explores the relationship between art and economics.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Edouard Malingue Gallery Archive
Balance Sheets is an international group show that draws out relationships between ideas of balance in aesthetics, economics and ecological thinking. Taking its title from accountancy, Balance Sheets takes looks at how we measure value between different fields ‘on paper’. In finance the balance sheet has a sort of virtual aesthetics, a ‘correct’ and stable form of representation where business income and expenditure of resources are presented as equal – even if this includes a surplus or profit. This notion of balance is equally a vital element in formal and traditional artistic composition. Its value has been displaced from visual perfection of the golden section in painting, or the contrapposto in sculpture, and now resides in a conceptual realm – a move that is traced through modernist abstraction, minimalist and conceptual practices. While this history rejects composition in form, there remains a sense of balance between visuality and artistic process and materials. The artists proposed move between these areas of material production and intellectual or conceptual work. Their works on paper move between the representational value of the materials – paper money, business reports, or charts – to emphasise these process of exchange of values between language and representation. Participating artists: Duncan Campbell, Lia Forslund & Franek Wardynski, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Han Ishu, Toril Johannessen, Gabriel Kuri, João Vasco Paiva, Heidi Voet and Hannes Zebedin,
Info: “Balance Sheets”, Curating: Kit Hammonds, Edouard Malingue Gallery, 6th Floor, 33 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, Duration: 4/6-18/7/15, Days & Hours: Mon-Sat: 10:00-19:00, http://edouardmalingue.com
