Exhibition
Wong Ping: Golden Shower
18 Jan 2019 – 5 May 2019
Event times
Mon closed
Tue/Wed/Fri 11 am – 6 pm
Thu 11 am – 8.30 pm
Sat/Sun 11 am – 5 pm
Mon, 11.3.2019: closed
Tue, 12.3.2019: closed
Wed, 13.3.2019: closed
Fri, 19.4.2019: closed
Sat, 20.4.2019: 11 am – 5 pm
Sun, 21.4.2019: 11 am – 5 pm
Mon, 22.4.2019: 11 am – 5 pm
Wed, 1.5.2018: 11 am – 5 pm
Cost of entry
CHF 12.—/8.—
incl. S AM Swiss Architecture Museum
Address
- Steinenberg 7
- Basel
Basel - CH-4051
- Switzerland
Hong Kong-based artist Wong Ping (* 1984) makes captivating, colorful animations and installations that seem playful and light, but actually portray our contemporary urban condition with wry, dark humor.
About
An incongruous combination of dry humor, graphically explicit themes, and candy-hued, child-like forms seemingly built from the simple geometries of early video games pervades the digital animations of Wong Ping (*1984). For his first large-scale institutional solo show, the Hong Kong-based artist presents newly commissioned and recent videos, each within a new, specially conceived sculptural installation. They speak of our contemporary urban condition and its pathologies—whether they arrive in the form of alienation, misogyny, or self-loathing—unraveling some of the starkest realities of our own dark age with a touch as mordant as it is humorous.