Installation view. Artwork © Howard Hodgkin

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我是一位具象派畫家，不是描繪外表的畫家。 —霍華德‧霍奇金高古軒畫廊欣然呈獻「粉紅世界」展覽，展出霍華德‧霍奇金（Howard Hodgkin）的近期作品，也是藝術家在香港舉行的首場展覽。霍奇金的藝術生涯橫跨50餘載，是英國最備受推崇的在世畫家之一。他以木板創作細膩的油畫，而當中的創作過程、視覺結構和情感溫度，無不展現手、眼與記憶之間的關係與影響力。霍奇金的畫作別樹一幟，在抽象與具象、敘述記事與純粹觀感、過去與現在之間建立起迫切的關係。他的作品私密細膩、構圖慎密，而且富有洞察力，融入大量時間與思考。他透過深度與力度多變的筆觸，表達轉瞬即逝的私密時刻與難忘回憶。《當下》（2015–16）體現明與暗、時間與情感之間的交替，而《下午時光》（2016）則將暫存的記憶轉化為純粹且斑斕的色彩體驗。在《秘密》（2016）中，綠色與黃色顏料構成豐富層次，以洋溢感情的顫動筆觸卸下時間的重擔。詹姆士‧羅倫斯（James Lawrence）形容霍奇金的手法為「解讀或誤解的獨特組合」，而《粉紅世界》（2008–14）便體現了此手法。這批作品於2014年至2016年間創作完成，各自塑造了時間與沉默的空間，以全新角度展現藝術家於顛峰時期的表現力、直率與精湛技藝。展覽附以圖文並茂的圖錄，並載有詹姆士‧羅倫斯撰寫的文章。

Hong Kong

An exterior view of Gagosian Hong Kong at 7/F Pedder Building 12 Pedder Street Central, Hong Kong

In the Pink

I am a representational painter, not a painter of appearances. —Howard HodgkinGagosian is pleased to present In the Pink, recent paintings by Howard Hodgkin. This is his first exhibition in Hong Kong.One of Britain’s most celebrated painters with a career spanning more than fifty years, Hodgkin’s intimate oil-on-panel paintings convey the relationship between hand, eye, and memory that charges process, visual structure, and emotional temperature.Hodgkin’s compositions are distinctive for the ways in which they bring abstraction and representation, narrative and pure sensation, and past and present into urgent relation. Intimate, thoughtful, and insightful, his paintings suggest great arcs of time and thought.

With paint strokes of varying depth and vigor, Hodgkin’s works convey fleeting private moments and intense recollections. Now (2015–16) embodies an interchange between light and dark, time and feeling, while Always Afternoon (2016) transforms a temporal memory into an experience of pure and exuberant color. The layered greens and yellows of Don’t Tell a Soul (2016) elide the weight of hours with an emotional jolt, while In the Pink (2008–14) typifies Hodgkin’s approach to what James Lawrence calls his “idiosyncratic assemblage of readings or misreadings.” Completed between 2014 and 2016, each painting creates a pocket of time and silence, demonstrating afresh the expressiveness, candor, and mastery of a painter in his prime.A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by James Lawrence will accompany the exhibition.

Howard Hodgkin

Press release

新聞稿

Howard Hodgkin, Always Afternoon, 2016. Oil on wood, 27 ⅜ × 36 ⅝ inches (69.5 × 93 cm) © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cumming Associates LTD

Howard Hodgkin, Paris, 2010–16. Oil on wood, 55 ¾ × 70 inches (141.6 × 177.8 cm) © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cumming Associates LTD

Howard Hodgkin

In the Pink

January 19–March 11, 2017
Hong Kong

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Installation Views

Works Exhibited

About

Artist

Downloads

Contact

From the Quarterly

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Visions of the Self: Jenny Saville on Rembrandt

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Related Exhibitions

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