City Art Square 2

Peony Blossom, Natural Granite
Vivienne Tam (United States America)

Fashion Designer Vivienne Tam features a Chinese peony mosaic across the plaza, which help leading people to the zone of City Art Square.



Slice Chair, Aluminium
Mathias Bengtsson (Denmark)

The organizer buys this elegant sculpture which was acquired by museums for the art square. However, it is now under maintenance as certain technical issues have to be solved when installing it in the outer place.

http://www.bengtssondesign.com/slice_chair_aluminium.html



City Landscape, Stainless Steel
Danny Lee (Hong Kong)

Creatively, Denny Lee uses a starting motor cycle to symbolize a running horse. A new scene of this art piece merging with the brushwood is also expecting after the grass grows.



Bauhinia Arc, Paint and Aluminium
Nina Jobs (Sweden)

Nina Jobs is a Swedish industrial designer with a background in graphic design. She also works for IKEA. After she visited the Che Kung Temple in Shatin, she takes bauhinias and windmills to line the footbridge at the Square. She has come to Hong Kong for three times for setting up her work.



A One and a Two, Stainless Steel
Zhang Yi (China)

Zhang Yi comes out this simple form of three linear horses after exchanging views with the organizer for several times. He is so enthusiastic about the project that he does not care for his honorarium but an artwork perfectly matching the theme and the style of City Art Square.



Cubic, Glass, Steel and Concrete
Michael Yen (Hong Kong)

With the idea of creating a mobile museum, the exhibits in these three cubes will be changed every two years. During daytime the cubes are skylighted while spotlights are used at night. Fine artworks, other than sculptures, are now available to be exhibited outdoors. Also, the organizer is intent on involving artists from the Shatin district in the project, and Mok Yat San, a teaching staff of CUHK, Man Fung Yee, and Sara Tse all come from Fotanian.



Minute Emotions, Stainless Steel
Man Fung Yi and Mok Yat San (Hong Kong)

The forms of this art piece represent feminine and masculine sides gracefully. A minute touch is yet provoking more emotions and longings.



Gelebtes Holz (Lived Wood), Wood
Tom Thiel (Germany)

The wood comes from abandoned houses and furniture from different communities in German, and each piece carries different stories and memories. Tom Thiel transforms them into new appliances. However, these wooden sculptures as a whole do not represent an individual experience but a history of many people. Interestingly, when he sets up his work in the cube, he also puts some personal stuff like a bear, a book and a pen so as to personalize his creation.



Collecting Flowers - Dress (no. 240-252) , Porcelain
Sara Tse (Hong Kong)

It is amazing how Sara Tse packs and sets up her fragile works for the exhibition. These fabulous pieces are made of used clothes which are dipped in Porcelain slips and then go through the process of firing. Even the threadbare parts of the clothes can be clearly seen.



Night Watch, Glass and LED
WOKmedia (United Kingdom)

Julie Mathias and Wolfgang Kaeppner use water and LED lights as the medium for their creation. Many pairs of crystal balls which look similar to animal eyes are setting in two water tanks, eyeballing the spectators. Do these creatures also feel annoyed or curious about the passers-by and the happenings there? With the technique of an ancient Chinese art of inside painting, the image is reverse-painted inside a hollowed crystal ball through a small opening.

http://www.wokmedia.com/?cat=2



Dancing Landscape, Stainless Steel
Danny Lee (Hong Kong)

Playing with the logo of Beijing Olympic logo “Dancing Beijing,” Danny Lee creates his icy-look sculpture as a sign of this theme park as well as a sculpture in this art square, with approval from International Olympic Committee.



Miracle Horse, Steel
Freeman Lau (Hong Kong)

Freeman Lau, famous Hong Kong designer, creates this patterned horse in the form of a chair. He prefers the horse facing the road so that it can attract people’s attention when driving in and also helps to welcome people to the Square.



The Red Box, Automobile Painted on Metal
Barrie Ho (Hong Kong)

Erected in front of the bus stops, this red box by well-known Hong Kong architectural designer Barrie Ho is regarded as an entrance to the Square. Through different windows, people with different sitting postures make up different scenes. People are all welcome to walk through or rest inside or outside the box.



Red Horse, Painted Stainless Steel
Joaquin G. Palencia (Philippines)

It is told that Joaquin G. Palencia draws up his idea in messy lines which comes as quite a surprise to the organizer. Can this organic form be produced at last? This beautiful art piece is sitting right there in the Square today. It originally contains two parts- the main body to be placed outside the shopping plaza while the smaller part to be put inside, of which gives a conceptual meaning of extension. However, the idea is finally banned by the fire safety ordinance that the inner part must be removed from the plaza, and the outer one is also required to be relocated later.

Vortex, Stainless Steel
James Law (Hong Kong)

Vortex is the largest sculpture in City Art Square. James Law drafts his idea, and other workmen help to finish the work. He depicts water being sucked up into the giant pipe and spouting over the ground. At night, these spouts of water lighten the stairway of the shopping plaza. Again, people are free to sit on its pieces.