Kate MccGwire: Secrete, 27 Oct 2016 — 09 Dec 2016
Exhibitions

Kate MccGwire: Secrete

205-208, 2/F, KT336, 334-336 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong

Galerie Huit presents the Hong Kong solo debut exhibition “Secrete” by British artist, Kate MccGwire.

“Secrete”, comprises a comprehensive body of work, including seminal early site specific installations, and new and recent mixed media sculptures, wall pieces and drawings never before exhibited in Hong Kong. Recently exhibited at the Musee de la Chasse, Paris, the mixed media installation of the same title “Secrete”, originally commissioned by the Hastings Coastal Currents festival, comprises a steel bucket that is tipped on its side with the contents spilling outwards onto the floor. The forming puddle consists of blue magpie feathers that shimmer in natural light. In another part of the gallery, previously exhibited at the Archeological Institute, Athens and the Hydra Museum, Greece, the seminal site-specific piece with the onomatopoeic title “Heave” gushes out from the wall with no visible beginning. Both installations depict a surreal narrative. Free-standing pieces such as “Flail”, “Orchis”, “Introvert”, that intertwine inside their glass cabinets and domes, are at once precious and caged. The human proportions in “Flail“ seem at odds with the antique vitrine it has been pressed within. In contrast “Orchis”, “Introvert” and “Scylla” presented in glass domes appear more intimate and intense. By definition, the word ‘secrete’ describes two opposite actions – to generate and release or to hide and conceal. Such duality is ever present in McGwire’s work, either demonstrated through the clever juxtaposition of scale or marriage of hard and soft materials. Through re-cycling the antique and re-purposing natural materials, MccGwire’s distinctive hybrids connect the past to the present, placing a new definition of abstract sculpture at the centre.

Contacts & Details
OPENING:
mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat 11:00 am – 7:00 pm

CLOSING DAYS:
sun

T: +852 2803 2089
M: info@galeriehuit.com.hk
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ADDRESS
205-208, 2/F, KT336, 334-336 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong

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