Pao Galleries, HK Arts Centre Sept 17 to Oct 22
This group exhibition put together by renowned curator Fumio Nanjo proposes to revisit the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation and, in doing so, explore what he describes as the 'fourth dimension': the interaction between the artist and the viewer.
Nanjo, director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, says many artists in the West since the Renaissance have been experimenting with how to recreate the illusion of spatial depth and three-dimensionality on the two-dimensional plane of a canvas. But in traditional Chinese ink landscape painting, the artists often leave room for imagination. 'This wonderful sense of interaction between the artist and the viewer brings to the work a fourth dimension - a temporal dimension,' he says.
'With this dimension, the visual impact no longer lies with the pictorial surface. Instead, it is transformed into an actual experience of reconstructing the scenery in the viewer's mind as his eyes run through the painting.'
Popping Up explores the transformation of a flat surface into three dimensions, with works from different disciplines - paper cutting, video, photography, soft sculpture and painting - by more than a dozen artists and architects.
They include Toyo Ito from Japan, the mainland's Yin Xuzhen (including Portable City Series Hong Kong, above) and local artist Tsang Kin-wah.