"Confluence" Exhibition, Artworks by Sunny Wong & David Reekie

Confluence is a cultural exchange programme. Mur Nomade invited British sculptor David Reekie to Hong Kong to collaborate with local artist Sunny Wang in a two-person exhibition and a workshop.

The Confluence exhibition puts in perspective an Asian and a European approaches to glass sculpture and installation. It reveals some shared preoccupations such as the research of aesthetics, and a calm and quiet way of conveying strong messages through art. However the exhibition also proposes an interpretation of the way underlying cultures may influence creative practices. A dialogue takes place between David Reekie’s sculptures, which offer a satirist and incisive look at society expanding on the British cartoonist tradition, and Sunny Wang’s installations influenced by elements of Asian culture such as calligraphy, Zen Buddhism and Japanese stone gardens. Glass artworks and installations are complemented by materials related to the artists’ inspirations and working processes: Sunny Wang’s calligraphy and poems, David Reekie’s preliminary sketches and drawings.

Dates: 21-30 November 2013
Time: 11am-9pm (until 6pm on last day) – closed on Tuesday