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2021-04-05
The exhibition, Grasso’s first solo presentation with Perrotin in Hong Kong, is titled after his latest investigation into the idea of exploring the contemporary world anew. Key to these ongoing studies is his recently debuted film Artificialis, which was produced in collaboration with the Musée d’Orsay, in dialogue with its exhibition, The Origins of the World: The Invention of Nature in the 19th Century. In parallel to his monumental installation Artificialis at Musée d’Orsay, Grasso developed Future Herbarium, a body of painted and sculpted flowers executed in the manner of nineteenth-century herbariums, shaped by observations of different species of flowers that mutated after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Exhibited alongside Future Herbarium, Solar Wind, a video installation also presented at the new Jeonnam Museum of Art, South Korea in March, explores concepts of science, belief, illusion, and fiction, based on the artist’s interest in solar storms and space meteorology. Inspired by his permanent light installation on the outskirts of the thirteenth arrondissement in Paris, Solar Wind visually renders in real time, in the form of colored undulations, the activity occurring on the surface of the Sun.
Opposite – Solar Wind, 2020
Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2021
Perrotin
807, 8/F, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside
18 Salisbury Road
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Central Hong Kong
China
www.perrotin.com
