The 75th Anniversary of the foundation of the PRC is this Tuesday, 1 October 2024 - and Hong Kong's public buildings are festooned with flags, even inside museums. Surely, coinciding with the anniversary as soft/strategic marketing is an Andy Warhol Mao on the cover of this month''s Gagosian gallery magazine*. The article written by the gallery's Jessica Beck discusses this series of work. Warhol completed four series (at different sizes/colours) of Mao silkscreen/paintings immediately after U.S. President Richard Nixon''s 1972 visit to China - continuing a series of work depicting famous people.
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John Batten
Art critic, Hong Kong
*Gagosian magazine cover image: Andy Warhol, Mao, 1972 (detail), acrylic, silkscreen ink, and pencil on linen, 447x345.1cm, copyright The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Inc/ARS, New York
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在香港各區，以香港藝術家為主的最新展覽有：梁凱雅（安全口）、楊學德（馬凌畫廊）、鄧廣燊（爍樂畫廊），和周俊輝（當代唐人藝術中心）。同時在Rossi & Rossi 有尼泊爾當代藝術先鋒兼作家Lain Singh Bangdel（1919-2002）、Empty Gallery有居住於美國的日本藝術家增鹽太朗，和白立方Margaux Ogden。
本年度十月一日星期二是中華人民共和國成立75週年，香港到處都掛滿了國旗，連博物館內也有。高古軒畫廊季刊以安迪·沃荷《毛澤東》為封面，與這個紀念日同時出現， 成為軟策略式行銷。當年沃荷在美國前總統尼克遜1972年訪華後創作了四個不同尺寸和顏色的《毛澤東》絲網印刷系列——沃荷繼續他的名人創作。
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約翰百德
藝評人，香港
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