The Cabinets of Curiosities
Exhibited at CityU Exhibition Gallery, 18/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon
May to August 2018
“The Cabinets of Curiosities. From the Natural Sciences to the Art of Nature. Collections from France and Hong Kong” exhibition from 25 May to 19 August is presented by CityU Exhibition Gallery in partnership with Le French May Arts Festival.
The event will introduce Hong Kong audiences to over 250 natural and artificial artifacts from 10 museums, galleries, and private collections. Thanks to the exceptional generosity of La Maison Deyrolle, founded in 1831 and itself a living repository of the French cabinets, and of the Musée du Vivant – AgroParisTech, whose collections also date back to the early 19th Century, CityU is able to exhibit these collections for the first time in Hong Kong.
The work Glass Mutation of Tobias Klein was exhibited in the exhibition.
The work Mutation is the first of a series of new works that form a new trajectory in my artistic output, design practice and academic research. Mutation is primordial and complex. Mutation is analogue and traditional, advanced and digital. Mutation is glass and polymer as a new grammar. The glass objects were made at Pilchuck during a residency exploring Taxonomy as an idea and concept.
Coming from a background in architecture and working in the field of New Media, I define language through forms, materials and space. Mutation is a work that transcends any of these classical divisions of techne and poiesis, commonly referred to as technological origin and crafted processes. Instead, the origin is reflected in the new processes and reversely the new digital process is reactive to the origin of form. Evolution of processes are made through the mutation of the original The development of this language in form starts with the primordial single cell organism and develops through environmental mutation and stimulation into higher-ordered complex forms.
The exhibition opened from May 18th, 2018 to August 19th, 2018.