展览名称：为何树会长到最后
开幕酒会：2012年3月2日（星期五） 晚上6时至8时
展览地点：香港Gallery EXIT 安全口画廊-香港香港仔田湾兴和街25号大生工业大厦商3楼
策 展 人：Pui Pui To 、罗家恩
展览时间：2012年3月2日——5月5日
办公时间：周三至六 13:00-19:00
艺 术 家： 陈维、方琛宇、许尹龄、邝镇禧、江耀荣、关尚智、赖宛珊、黎卓华、刘彦韬、林穴、 卢乐谦、马琼 珠、吴家俊、吴铤濠、潘蔚然、戴媛婷、黄丽茵、黄颂恩、黄慧妍、杨沛铿、杨嘉辉
Gallery EXIT 安全口画廊即将在新设的 SOUTHSITE 举行首个展覧，该位于港岛南区香港仔田湾的新空间将专注展示多项媒体的艺廊。三月二日的展覧开幕将展出吴铤灏、潘蔚然、戴媛婷的作品和香港创乐团的音乐演奏。在两个月多的展期内，展出艺术家将会增至二十多位。在五月五日晚上五时正将是首次同时也是欣赏展覧的最后机会。
是次展题《为何树会长到最后?》的灵感来自生命体的持续生长最终只会因为外在因素而逼使停止这个概念。吴铤灏的动态装置作品《黑云》里，翘曲而且跌荡有致的胶袋有若在微风中舞动。在《无题「雪」》和《无题「四毫米雪」》作品里，潘蔚然藉着在她土生的南中国地区的木棉树为雪的象征，描画出穿透纱帘后面看到的植物景象。戴媛婷名为《Salt Water》犹如化学实验般的作品是一个二重装置作品。运用悬挂的玻璃漏斗结构，第一部分从美国鳕鱼角收集到的海水中提炼出盐分，第二部分则以水滴缓慢地融解盐堆。
香港创乐团将在开幕中演奏Jonas Baes的作品《Patangis-Buwaya》，该乐曲由四种管乐器及听众参与的吹哨声所组成。标题的字面意思为「令鳄鱼也落泪的声音」。
随着展期进行，每周将会通布和增添两件作品。whydotreesgrowtilltheend.blogspot.com的网志内将会每星期更新以记录展覧的进程。参与艺术家包括：陈维、方琛宇、许尹龄、邝镇禧、江耀荣、关尚智、赖宛珊、黎卓华、刘彦韬、林穴、卢乐谦、马琼珠、吴家俊、吴铤灏、潘蔚然、戴媛婷、黄丽茵、黄慧妍、杨沛铿、杨嘉辉。
展覧由Pui Pui To (2P Contemporary) 和 罗家恩 (安全口画廊) 联合策展。演奏项目由William Lane (香港创乐团) 策展。
策展人和艺术家欢迎访问和会出席酒会。如想得到更多数据和图像，请致电 2541 1299 连络 Joyce 或发送电邮至 info@galleryexit.com
Why Do Trees Grow Till the End
Duration: 2 March - 5 May 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, 2 March 2012, 6 - 8 pm
Venue: SOUTHSITE, 3/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen
Hours: Wed - Sat, 1300 - 1900
Gallery EXIT announces the inaugural exhibition of SOUTHSITE, a space dedicated to inter-media art practices located in Tin Wan, Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island South. The understated opening on 2 March will feature works by Roy Ng, Vivian Poon, Wun Ting Wendy Tai and a performance by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME). Over the course of two months, the exhibition will grow to include over twenty artists. The grand closing on 5 May, 5 p.m. will be the first but final chance to view the exhibition in full.
The exhibition title, Why Do Trees Grow Till the End?, takes its inspiration from the notion that perennial life forms continue to grow unless terminated by external factors. In Black Cloud a kinetic installation by Roy Ng, a plastic bag warps in a placid rhythm as if caught by a breeze in slow motion. In Untitled (snow) and Untitled (4mm snow) , Vivian Poon takes the cotton tree as metaphor for snow in her native south China and paints passive scenes of the plant viewed through net curtains. Salt Water by Wun Ting Wendy Tai is a two part apothecary-esque installation. With suspended glass funnels, the first part extracts salt by evaporating brine collected along Cape Cod, US and the second tardily dissolves mounds of salt rock with small beads of water.
At the opening, the HKNME will perform Patangis-Buwaya by Jonas Baes. It is a work that involves four wind instruments and, with the audience's participation, whistles. The title literally means "sound that makes even the crocodile weep."
As the show proceeds to grow, two complimentary works will be added and announced each week. The blog whydotreesgrowtilltheend.blogspot.com will be updated on a weekly basis to document the on-going exhibition. Works will be contributed by Chen Wei, Silas Fong, Hsu Yinling, Kong Chun Hei, Kong Yiu Wing, Kwan Sheung Chi, Elise Lai, Sarah Lai, Lewis Lau, Lin Xue, Him Lo, Ivy Ma, Ng Ka Chun, Roy Ng, Vivian Poon, Wun Ting Wendy Tai, Cam Wong, Wong Wai Yin, Trevor Yeung and Samson Young.
This exhibition is curated by Pui Pui To (2P Contemporary) and Aenon Loo (Gallery EXIT). The performance series is curated by William Lane (HKNME).
The curators and artists are available for interview upon request. For more information, please contact Joyce at +852 2541 1299 or email info@galleryexit.com.
