Amelia Johnson Contemporary is pleased to announce China Trade! a collection of new works by Russian artist Konstantin Bessmertny which will be shown at this year’s ArtHK 09 and at the gallery’s Shin Hing Street location.
Monument to Anyone (Monument Pro Aliquis) will be installed at the Hong Kong Convention Centre, Wanchai from 13th until 17th May 2009 for the duration of ArtHK 09. Using a combination of sculpture and lighting Monument to Anyone is a spectacular, larger-than-life-sized sculpture of a rider-less Renaissance horse carved from wood. Paradoxically populist and elitist at the same time, it is anticipated that the installation will be the centre-piece of a performative work by the artist.
An exhibition of Konstantin Bessmertny’s new paintings will also be held at Amelia Johnson Contemporary from 15th May until 6th June 2009. China Trade! acknowledges trade with China as both a statement of fact and an imperative, from the 19th century beginnings of the so-called ‘China Trade’ to China’s 21st century emergence as an economic superpower. Konstantin Bessmertny’s observations and conclusions regarding what he describes as the ‘neo China Trade’ are executed with characteristic mastery and ironic humour.
