On October 26th, Hong Kong gallery Alisan Fine Arts opened its new multi-purpose venue, Alisan Atelier. Located in Hong Kong’s Aberdeen neighborhood, this expansive 10,000-square-foot features a gallery, library, museum-grade art storage, and several project and entertainment spaces.
The inaugural exhibition at Alisan Atelier, “Remaining the Mountain, Becoming the Ocean,” features the first joint exhibition of artists Mok Yat-San and Man Fung Yi. The gallery has represented both artists individually since 2007, and this exhibition is in line with the collaborative spirit that the new space aims to foster. The exhibition includes 22 recent works by the artists.
The new space, in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island, will present programming in addition to Alisan Fine Arts’s global headquarters in Central, Hong Kong, which will focus on established artists and ink art. The gallery also runs a space in New York.
“While we continue to cement our leadership in promoting established masters such as Lui Shou-kwan, Chao Chung-hsian, and Walasse Ting, Alisan Atelier will showcase emerging talents, welcome experimentation, and facilitate intergenerational and interdisciplinary exchanges, hopefully attracting a younger and broader audience as a result,” said Daphne King Yao, global director of Alisan Fine Arts.
Mok Yat-San is known for his surreal sculptures that also take a contemporary spin on ink work, while Man is known for multimedia techniques ranging from incense-burn marks to digital video. The exhibition also premieres “Mokman’s Cosmology,” a series of four collaborative works that bring together the artists’ reflections on landscapes and the universe.
“In the realm of art, Mok Yat-San and Man Fung-yi are rare ‘soulmates,’” said Tang Hoi-chiu, an adjunct professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, who curated the show.
