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Yang Jiechang: The Last Tree
22 May – 14 Sep, 2024
Alisan Fine Art (Central)
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Celestial Equilibrium
23 May – 12 Sep, 2024
10 Chancery Lane Gallery
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The Evanescent
20 Jun – 31 Oct, 2024
Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong
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"If I Were.." Exhibition
4 Jul – 27 Oct, 2024
Artspace K
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Generative Canvas
15 Aug – 26 Sep, 2024
Ora-Ora
KWAI TSING
Summer Stroll
17 Aug – 14 Sep, 2024
The Stroll Gallery
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Summer-Scape
21 Aug – 13 Sep, 2024
3812 Gallery
SHEUNG WAN
The Way Home: Group Show Curated by Shirky Chan
22 Aug – 28 Sep, 2024
Soluna Fine Art
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A Brush with Nature: Recent Works by Stephen King
22 Aug – 19 Oct, 2024
Alisan Fine Arts (Aberdeen)
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Bridging Horizons: Ting and the New Wave
27 Aug – 20 Sep, 2024
Sansiao Gallery HK
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Old Master Q's 60th Anniversary – Manuscript Exhibition
28 Aug – 8 Sep, 2024
Lucie Chang Fine Arts
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Clement Chan: New Sixteen Views of Seclusion
28 Aug – 5 Oct, 2024
Art of Nature Contemporary (Central)
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To Everything That Moves
29 Aug – 4 Oct, 2024
MASSIMODECARLO
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Jacky Tao Solo : Have A Nice Day
29 Aug – 5 Oct, 2024
SC Gallery
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Melting Suns on the Screens
31 Aug – 28 Sep, 2024
DE SARTHE
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Megumi Shinozaki: Meridiem
31 Aug – 12 Oct, 2024
WKM Gallery
SHEUNG WAN
SANTIAGO EVANS CANALES | PRECIOUSLY PROFANE POSSESSIONS
31 Aug – 12 Oct, 2024
Double Q Gallery
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In Motion
31 Aug – 14 Oct, 2024
WOAW Gallery
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Ding Zhi: Secretly, Inwardly, Dimly
31 Aug – 19 Oct, 2024
MOU PROJECTS
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Social Abstraction | Curated by Antwaun Sargent
10 Sep – 2 Nov, 2024
Gagosian
SHEUNG WAN
TIME CAPSULE - LUKA YUANYUAN YANG
12 Sep – 12 Oct, 2024
Flowers Gallery
SHEUNG WAN
I like expensive shxt
12 Sep – 12 Oct, 2024
Contemporary by Angela Li
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ZAO WOU-KI: Art without Border
12 Sep – 21 Oct, 2024
VILLEPIN
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Tang Kwong San: Rootstock
12 Sep – 9 Nov, 2024
gdm (Galerie du Monde)
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Hannah Rollings: See, Feel, Mark - A Journey of Exploration Painting in Hong Kong
13 Sep – 5 Oct, 2024
Seefood Room
SHEUNG WAN
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13 Sep – 10 Oct, 2024
Novalis Art Design
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Tales of Women
14 Sep – 14 Oct, 2024
Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)
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Jen Liu: I Am Cloud
17 Sep – 2 Nov, 2024
Blindspot Gallery
SHEUNG WAN
Hong Kong: Cinematic Set & Viewing Platform
19 Sep – 22 Nov, 2024
Leo Gallery
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HKFOREWORD24
20 Sep – 5 Oct, 2024
10 Chancery Lane Gallery
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Kaleidoscope of Abstraction
21 Sep – 26 Oct, 2024
Karin Weber Gallery
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Pass: Taro Masushio
21 Sep – 30 Nov, 2024
Empty Gallery
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Dusk Upon the Hush: Liu Guofu Works on Paper Exhibition
23 Sep – 29 Nov, 2024
3812 Gallery
SHEUNG WAN
Unmasked
26 Sep – 13 Oct, 2024
Young Soy Gallery
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Mark Bradford. Exotica
26 Sep – 1 Mar, 2025
Hauser & Wirth
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Chances Are You’ll Like It All Ways
28 Sep – 9 Nov, 2024
Ben Brown Fine Arts
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Lain Bangdel
28 Sep – 16 Nov, 2024
Rossi & Rossi
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That Summer We All Saw Them
2 Oct – 30 Oct, 2024
WOAW Gallery
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Pneuma 숨결
3 Oct – 9 Nov, 2024
Soluna Fine Art
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A Wider Horizon
3 Oct – 16 Nov, 2024
Ora-Ora
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HEIAN - Seiju Toda First Solo Exhibition in Hong Kong
5 Oct – 25 Jan, 2025
wamono art
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Ferrari Sheppard: Modality
9 Oct – 15 Nov, 2024
MASSIMODECARLO
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Forms and Fields: Takeo Yamaguchi X Sadamasa Motonaga
10 Oct – 16 Nov, 2024
Whitestone Gallery
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In Stranger Lands: Cocoa’s Journeys To Asia
17 Oct – 14 Nov, 2024
Tang Contemporary Art (Wong Chuk Hang)
SOUTHERN
Jun Takahashi: Peaceable Kingdom
25 Oct – 14 Dec, 2024
WKM Gallery
SANTIAGO EVANS CANALES | PRECIOUSLY PROFANE POSSESSIONS
31 Aug – 12 Oct, 2024
Double Q Gallery

SANTIAGO EVANS CANALES | PRECIOUSLY PROFANE POSSESSIONS

In a liminal space amid “primitive” experiences and erudite allegories, in which a childlike spirit and the memories therein clash with the adiaphoric character of metropolitan solipsism and the tangential contradictions of contemporary subsistence, innocent and wild scenery thrives affably in the open countryside or along the banks of waterways. Formally composed of a multitude of simple forms and large patches of earthy colours, they generate an authentic, open, and uninhibited fresco.

 

After the gust of a warm summer evening breeze and generous caresses, libidinous bodies and sweet memories embrace each other. Pleasantly protected by a white sheet, they celebrate the immense pleasure of the present moment, symptomatic of an ideal world that pushes the limits of conventional representations. 

 

Thus arises “Preciously Profane Possessions,” a new exhibition chapter by the young Santiago Evans Canales. At its center is a search for and celebration of the primal colours typical of the bold and magnificent virgin nature. Here, generous and meandering brushstrokes slowly trace the indefinite images of reclining bodies, enlarged through vivid swathes of colour that slowly manifest in the auroral layers of paint.

 

Through the use of a luxuriant colour palette that generates a golden light, at once warm and vibrant, and endowed with action and movement, all areas of shadow gain a sort of brightness. Sometimes this is a whisper, other times it surges with intensity. 

 

In his luminescent, psycho-perceptive, and empathic art practice, usually composed of luminous colours and near-abstract figurations, Canales frequently takes inspiration from references that are autobiographical, historical, and indigenous while at the same time pertaining to fantasy and magical realism. In doing so, each painting is a window into his personal world—a spontaneous universe in which the viewer can both perceive and be submerged in the artist’s own Weltanschauung

 

Although inherently intuitive, all of his work is influenced by observation, abstraction, and imagination. And all of these elements contribute to the skilful creation of aesthetic balance and inimitable and inclusive sensory satisfaction in which light, colour, and related hues, along with line, space, form, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm, texture, unity, and variety coexist harmoniously in their imperishable permanence.

 

“Preciously Profane Possessions,” celebrating and contemplating nudity, resulting in a redefinition of the meaning of being in which, in the keeping with the evolution of Heideggerian ontology, the impulse to transfigure “restless preoccupation” with an “appeasing” metaphysics increasingly grows, and indeed seals a return to oil painting, enriched by an amalgam of sand and primer.

 

Here, the realm of sacred and profane space, or of openness and deprivation, are challenged in their categorical subdivision, actuating that modus cogitandi according to which these spaces themselves should no longer merely indicate a dichotomy but stimulate the revelation of a cohesive organization that contains within itself an iridescent world of values, expectations, and ways of living. Thus what is delineated is form, faith in the other, breadth of openness, and the evolution of human beings moving towards the cusp of their destinies.

 

While painting sculpts images that animate whispered stories in the exhibition “Preciously Profane Possessions,” the only plausible boundaries of this Arcadian world gifted to us by Canales consist solely and exclusively of the edges of horizontal canvases.

 

Metaphorically evoking French intellectual Pierre Klossowski’s 1965 book “The Laws of Hospitality”—a trilogy in which a parallel reflection is conducted on seemingly irreconcilable themes: theology and eroticism, being hostages or liberators—all these ecstatic paintings, breaking down into an interdependent network of symbolic elements, chorally recite a story of unconcluded mutual attractions, a theophany that is realized by breathing in effluvia that is, for some, impure.

 

And so the question arises: is it enough to exist or is it better to live? 

 

—   Domenico de Chirico


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