MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO – RESPECT
2018-05-28This exhibition presents a series of installations “Respect (2016)” and “South China Sea – Love Difference (2005)” brought to Hong Kong from Paris and Italy will be first major appearance of this widely known Italian master in Asia.
In October 20th 2016, Pistoletto staged a spectacular performance in Paris, where the artist used a wooden hammer to smash mirrors and invited the audience to participate in exposing the hidden message behind each mirror. The installation is called “Respect” as after being shattered, each mirror exposed the word “respect” in one out of 23 languages. If some people explain the multiplicity of languages as the fruit of divine intervention intended to “confound” disrespectful humankind (cf. the myth of the Tower of Babel), here they unite to promote, in a symphony of vivid colors, a fundamentalvalue that knows no borders.
Opposite – Respect (Japanese), 2016
Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2018
Tang Contemporary Art
10/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
China
