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Mark Bradford. Exotica
26 Sep – 1 Mar, 2025
Hauser & Wirth
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HEIAN - Seiju Toda First Solo Exhibition in Hong Kong
5 Oct – 25 Jan, 2025
wamono art
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Jun Takahashi: Peaceable Kingdom
25 Oct – 14 Dec, 2024
WKM Gallery
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“The Girl Next Door - The (New) Era of Zhu Xinjian” Zhu Xinjian Solo Exhibition
25 Oct – 7 Jan, 2025
Lucie Chang Fine Arts
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Grand Opening of Alisan Atelier - Joint Exhibition of Mok Yat-San & Man Fung-Yi: Remaining the Mountain, Becoming the Ocean
26 Oct – 28 Dec, 2024
Alisan Atelier
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TRANSHUMANCE
31 Oct – 4 Jan, 2025
Flowers Gallery
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Intimate Exposure: The Art of Araki
1 Nov – 21 Dec, 2024
Seefood Room
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Márton Nemes: I Am the Energy I Desire to Attract
2 Nov – 14 Dec, 2024
Double Q Gallery
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璀璨 — 王秋童個展
6 Nov – 9 Feb, 2025
Artspace K
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Pop Craft Structure
7 Nov – 16 Dec, 2024
WOAW Gallery
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Palatable Parables
9 Nov – 7 Jan, 2025
Karin Weber Gallery
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Zang Zong-Son: Invitation
14 Nov – 21 Dec, 2024
Soluna Fine Art
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Wang Gongyi: Selected Works 2020-2024
14 Nov – 31 Dec, 2024
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Sterling Ruby |
14 Nov – 1 Mar, 2025
Gagosian
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Vessels of Memory
15 Nov – 21 Dec, 2024
Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong
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INNER NATURE– Return to Innocence
15 Nov – 11 Jan, 2025
10 Chancery Lane Gallery
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19 Nov – 11 Jan, 2025
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Quaquaversal
20 Nov – 25 Jan, 2025
Ben Brown Fine Arts
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Being Zen
21 Nov – 4 Jan, 2025
Ora-Ora
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John McAllister: shining serenest-like wilds whirl
21 Nov – 24 Jan, 2025
MASSIMODECARLO
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Studio Lenca: El Baile
22 Nov – 4 Jan, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Central)
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Tenmyouya Hisashi: Game of Thought
23 Nov – 25 Jan, 2025
Whitestone Gallery
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Transcendence
26 Nov – 16 Dec, 2024
Sansiao Gallery HK
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Nick Farhi Solo Exhibition: Autumn Leaves
27 Nov – 4 Jan, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)
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Cécile Lempert Solo Exhibition
28 Nov – 8 Jan, 2025
Leo Gallery
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Tears and Cheers
29 Nov – 4 Jan, 2025
JPS Gallery
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Reality · Fanatic - Tachi's Paradise
5 Dec – 11 Dec, 2024
Art of Nature Contemporary (Central)
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Melancholy
7 Dec – 4 Jan, 2025
SC Gallery
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Once It Sets
7 Dec – 25 Jan, 2025
Rossi & Rossi
Nick Farhi Solo Exhibition: Autumn Leaves
27 Nov – 4 Jan, 2025
Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)

Tang Contemporary Art is thrilled to present Autumn Leaves, an exploration of nostalgia and fragility through the lens of a New York-based artist Nick Farhi's vibrant imagination.

In a new body of work shown here for the first time, Farhi pays homage to New York City in the 1970s: a decade that saw the birth of the loft jazz scene in downtown Manhattan and with it, the emergence of dozens of DIY artistic venues for performing and visual arts. Enamored by this moment of intense artistic creativity amidst precarity and excess, Farhi reimagines films set in the city in the period.

In them, he transforms mundane urban night scenes—a busy street crossing, a dark storefront, wet concrete, or a lonely corner— into dazzling feasts for the eyes. In them, vibrant raspberry reds, sapphire blues, mint greens, and bright purples dance on the surface, pulsating with life. The artist’s loose and energetic brushstrokes blend into and clash against one another like the notes of jazz emerging from an underground club. In The West Village Jazzmen, bursts of light, blurred neon signs, and watery marks create a visual cacophony. These contrasting perspectives—converging momentarily on the surface of a dirty puddle on the road— crystalize the improvisational nature of the genre.

Farhi’s paintings are electric, yet in them, the deafening sounds of construction, traffic, emergency services, and pedestrians in angry disputes with one another seem to dissipate. Despite containing the ferocity of New York City, these scenes are surprisingly serene, poetic. In them, time seems to elongate, allowing for contemplation and respite. A lone ballerina dances in a street corner; a shirtless man carries a box with puppies for sale; another admires spring blooms in a flower stand. In these cinematic compositions, the busy streets somehow convey openness and a sense of possibility.

Seen together, these works reveal a careful exploration of the memories contained within the lived environment. An ode to the layers of encounters experienced in any street corner across time. Farhi’s project, though tinged with nostalgia for a bygone era, rather celebrates the continued vibrancy of the city. As the artist expressed, “great energy never dies,” it only transforms.
—Carlota Ortiz Monasterio

A falling piano chord, an accordion of decommissioned pre-war sinks, still-lifes hung across the walls, a girl dancing in the rain while a Pacino-looking man adopts a puppy. This metamorphosis of subjects, contrasting weights of tropes and dim recollections of vintage New York cinema, center political fragility. The viewers are pulled through the offerings of individual stances; army green glasses versus a rainbow of stemware, a twitter-colored bird juxtaposes with its prey a lonely green fish.

Temporality is the constant mechanism of waking life but is bound by rich landscapes of the New York-based artist’s critical imagination. Time is precious only because it is about to break, and life moves only because there are dwelling moments of still meditation to examine it.

Film frames are constantly shuffled, sped across light at speeds to create the illusion of movement, whereas here, the oil paint moves across the canvas, outlasting captured memories.
—Sam Farhi

ABOUT ARTIST
Nick Farhi

b. 1987, New York, USA
Lives and works at New York, USA

Nick Farhi is an artist, poet, and writer. Recent group exhibitions include the Jewish Museum, New York, Nino Mier Gallery, New York, Marlborough Gallery, London, and Golsa, Oslo. Farhi has critiqued and spoken at universities and institutions including the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Columbia University School of the Arts. His writing and poetry have been published by the Yale School of Architecture’s Paprika! Magazine and the 2023 MODA Critical Review Journal of Columbia University. Developing a wonky and uniquely a-skewed visual grammar through the labor of painting, both still and moving life, are made at deliberately bewildering and unusual scales. Through large-scale representational oil paintings, tonalities and cultural universalities within Western societies are emphasized, scrutinized and anthropomorphized. Through an interplay between visual research, (spanning from found imagery and autobiographical photography) to an internal intuition for figuration, Farhi delivers various addresses on daily life through mark-making and abstract symbologies.


Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)

Address: 20/F, Landmark South, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang

Opening Hours: Tue–Sat 11am–7pm

Phone: +852 3703 9245

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