The art of seeing

SIMON LEE GALLERY

Heimo Zobernig

Considered one of Austria's most significant contemporary artists, Vienna-based Heimo Zobernig stages his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong through Simon Lee. Chosen to represent his country at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, the 61-year-old is something of a cross-pollinator who draws, paints, performs, sculpts, videotapes, and enacts architectural interventions and installations. A critical engagement with the way in which art is framed, both physically and conceptually, is central to Zobernig's approach, which means he simultaneously explores the potential and the limitations of painting in every canvas. In this intervisual series, he highlights how artists have freely appropriated work by invoking Picasso's interpretation of Edouard Manet's Le Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe as a starting point, which in turn had been inspired by Titian's Le Concert Champêtre. Zobernig covers Gustav Klimt and others along the way. (March 26–May 9)