Lee Kit: We used to be more sensitive
This autumn, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art will present Lee Kit 鈥榃e used to be more sensitive.,鈥� the first exhibition to be held at a Japanese museum by the Hong Kong-born and Taipei-based artist.
Born in 1978, Lee Kit creates works that constantly explore the expressive potential of painting. These include a series of hand-painted cloth paintings that he created early in his career. Lee took ordinary pieces of fabric and painted them with checkered patterns and other designs. They were then used as tablecloths, curtains, sheets and for other purposes. By being simultaneously everyday objects and abstract paintings, Lee allowed each cloth to be seen as a "representational painting" of a cloth with the functionality of a tablecloth, etc., thereby radically expanding the concept of a "painting." Later, in 2013, Lee was chosen to represent Hong Kong at the 55th Venice Biennale where he presented an exhibition that occupied space both inside and outside of the Hong Kong pavilion. Lee attracted much international attention and was included by The Wall Street Journal as one of "five artists to watch."
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This autumn, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art will present Lee Kit 鈥榃e used to be more sensitive.,鈥� the first exhibition to be held at a Japanese museum by the Hong Kong-born and Taipei-based artist.
Born in 1978, Lee Kit creates works that constantly explore the expressive potential of painting. These include a series of hand-painted cloth paintings that he created early in his career. Lee took ordinary pieces of fabric and painted them with checkered patterns and other designs. They were then used as tablecloths, curtains, sheets and for other purposes. By being simultaneously everyday objects and abstract paintings, Lee allowed each cloth to be seen as a "representational painting" of a cloth with the functionality of a tablecloth, etc., thereby radically expanding the concept of a "painting." Later, in 2013, Lee was chosen to represent Hong Kong at the 55th Venice Biennale where he presented an exhibition that occupied space both inside and outside of the Hong Kong pavilion. Lee attracted much international attention and was included by The Wall Street Journal as one of "five artists to watch."
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Lee Kit鈥檚 exhibition occupies, as a single installation, the entire Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, an adapted modernist 1930s former residential building surrounded on two sides by a Japanese garden with an open lawn at the rear.
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