HONG KONG

Awol Erizku 多維空間 Quaquaversal

An exhibition of new works by Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Awol Erizku. This bold showcase, featuring paintings, neon installations, and a newly unveiled series of bronze sculptures, builds on the artist’s ongoing engagement with the city of Hong Kong, first initiated in his 2018 exhibition 慢慢燃燒 Slow Burn. 多維空間 Quaquaversal continues Erizku’s exploration of materiality, symbolism, and cultural intervention, expanding dialogues around cultural authorship and art history while electrifying African diasporic identity in a powerful act of revival.

  • Erizku reimagines the visual and linguistic landscapes of music, popular culture, and sports symbolism, deconstructing and reconstructing cultural motifs to create nuanced narratives that favor Afrocentric perspectives. In 多維空間 Quaquaversal, Erizku fuses disparate elements, producing a cultural flip that re-examines the established canons of art history, philosophy, and language. At the heart of his practice is a dissection of the persistent hegemony of Eurocentric ideals, unmasking their quiet colonisation of global cultural narratives and intellectual frameworks. This critique examines how these ideals subtly yet powerfully continue to dictate standards of beauty, knowledge, and civilisation, often at the expense of diverse and marginalized worldviews, particularly in art. Erizku’s work defies these dominant frameworks, offering instead an Afrocentric vision he terms Afro-Esotericism.

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

Booth H2 & Meridians Booth M9

Our carefully curated presentation will showcase an exceptional selection of paintings and sculptures by some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. We also have a large-scale work at booth M9 in the Meridians section by José Parlá’s from his latest series, Homecoming.

  • Highlights include works by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alighiero Boetti, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dubuffet, Andy Warhol, and David Hockney, presented in dialogue with pieces by Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Hank Willis Thomas. Monumental works by Jean Dubuffet, Robert Indiana, and Miquel Barceló will also be prominently featured.

    Additionally, the presentation will include remarkable works by Sean Scully and Gerhard Richter. We are also pleased to present the work of Candida Höfer, shown alongside Candida Höfer: The Order of Beauty, an exhibition celebrating 20 years of Candida Höfer at Ben Brown Fine Arts. This exhibition is being held at our London gallery from 28 November 2024 to 1 February 2025.

    We will also feature sculptures by French artists Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne. These works are a continuation of the monumental exhibition Planète Lalanne, curated by Jérôme Neutres, which was presented this year at the historic Palazzo Rota Ivancich in Venice as part of the 2024 Venice Biennale.

José Parlá, Pathways, 2024
Meridians Booth M9

Pathways is part of José Parlá’s latest series, Homecoming. Born in Miami to Cuban parents, Parlá was raised between the United States and Puerto Rico, immersed in the rich tapestry of Caribbean and Latin American influences of the 1970s and 1980s. Pathways is intended as a dialogue with other works featured in his concurrent solo exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Each painting layers ink, paint, plaster, and collaged posters once visible in the artist’s hometown. Themes of displacement, immigration, and adaptation emerge through expressive gestures, with abstract marks that echo historical and geographical narratives, offering profound insights into identity and memory.