© Margonelli Peter, Invisible Geographies: The Bridge, 2007, Digital inkjet print, 60 x 90 cm, Edition of 10. (Image courtesy of the artist and Blindspot Gallery)
Blindspot Gallery 24-26A, Aberdeen Street, Central Hong Kong Chine
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present “THREE DIMENSIONS” featuring architectural photography by Peter Margonelli, Dick Chan and Eason Tsang. The artists create new vistas of the ever-shifting cityscapes by employing distinct visual languages grounded in personal and cultural backgrounds. Their images of cityscape and architectures devoid of presence of people present a previously invisible and fascinating view of the city.
Peter Margonelli’s deserted industrial landscape photography projects a world without time. The Invisible Geographies series are images of industrial sites enveloped by flat light and grayish hues with devoid of recent human presence. The images allude to film sets fallen into disuse, with a surreal ambience that resembles Edward Hopper’s paintings at times. Growing up in a small industrial town, the artist explored the hollowed out factories and warehouses in his childhood. Today the artist finds himself seeking out the post-industrial environment that evokes his emotional power of these early experiences.
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© Dick Chan, The Familiar Peculiarity No. 1, 2012, Archival inkjet print, 68 x 150 cm, Edition of 8.
(Image courtesy of the artist and Blindspot Gallery)
Dick Chan’s panoramic images encapsulate the surreal transformation of old districts like Kowloon Bay and Wong Tai Sin in Hong Kong, and offer a succinct example of accelerating modernisation in these areas. The images highlight the physical, intrinsic characteristics of buildings like deserted factories and traditional public housing, and modern skyscrapers springing up over the areas. Chan’s juxtaposition of the historic and the modern is a familiar theme to city dwellers, whose existence constantly unfolds in unfamiliar moments as the city changes every day.
Eason Tsang’s Landmark series are images of Hong Kong skyscrapers taken at night from an upshot angle. These images of skyscrapers give only small hints of their true identities, which are mostly famous landmarks in Hong Kong like the Peninsula Hotel and the Jardine House. In Tsang’s images, conventional architectural qualities like stillness and formality are replaced by a striking sense of movement, as the buildings move vertically up toward the sky and become new landmarks on their own vertical planes. Tsang’s creation of these imaginative landmarks is a statement on Hong Kong being a densely populated space.
“Three Dimensions” presents highly individualised and imaginative images of architecture and cityscapes by Peter Margonelli, Dick Chan and Eason Tsang. By bringing together the distinct sensibilities of these artists, the exhibition showcases the cultural and artistic diversity inherent in architecture photography.
© Eason Tsang, Landmark No. 6, 2012, Digital inkjet print, 46 x 70 cm, Edition of 5.
(Image courtesy of the artist and Blindspot Gallery)