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Art basel vernissage 20163/17/2023 It’s clearly not Aussie or Brit graffiti judging by the notable absence of nobs and obscenities amongst the messages. Imprints of visitors’ scribbled names and messages from a previous installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Whitney Museum in New York in 2007 riddle the surface of the panel paintings. Gagosian gallery had a resplendent series of gold works by Rudolf Stingel. The Pedder building galleries promised and they delivered. K11 Art Space, Hong Kong China, March 2015 – May 2015 And some rock-hard phallic looking concrete sculptures by Yu Ji prompted giggles and some lewd selfies with a few of the boys. London based artist Mathis Collins really gets Inside China with a work resembling a blanket with enema tubes. I loved the beautiful tactile paintings on textured hemp canvas by Chinese artist Li Gang, which looked as though they were enlarged under a microscope. One guest described it as an intense and disturbing noise performance. An earsplitting sound piece by Yu Ji and Yan Jun was about as big a hit with the audience as a dog whistle on a Pomeranian. Floating up and down the three floors in a cloud of Tom Ford cologne with an army of handsome chaps (the art crowd never looked so good) we stumbled through the unusual layout of the exhibition space to check out works by Chinese and Western artists hanging from ceilings, jutting out from walls, and growing out of the floor. The week got off to a fairly civilised start with the K11/Palais de Tokyo opening party for their Inside China exhibition on Wednesday. Welcome to Hong Kong art week, the art world’s equivalent to the Rugby Sevens, without the cross-dressing bogans. Hemorrhoid cream will not help with the eye swelling. It’s only Friday morning and you already sound and look like you walked off the set of a John Waters film. Your head hurts your liver no longer holds any value on the black market your dignity is in tatters after falling down a flight of stairs in high heels at an exhibition opening-sober a random girl licked your leg and the last conversation you remember was about vodka home-brewing methods with a Chinese artist. Published on, 20 March, 2015 Champagne socialism at ABHK 2015 vernissage night.
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