Name: ‘NUDE STUDIES’ by AU Tze Long, Ben FELTEN & Michael KENNA
Start: 2021-05-13T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-06-13T12:00:00+00:00

‘NUDE STUDIES’ by AU Tze Long, Ben FELTEN & Michael KENNA

Exhibition details

Opening / Event Date:: 13 May, 2021
Time:: 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Closing / End Date:: 13 June, 2021
Event Category:: Art Event, Exhibition, Photography & Prints
Website:: https://bluelotus-gallery.com/new-events/nudestudies

Gallery Name:: Blue Lotus Gallery
Artist(s):: AU Tze Long, Ben FELTEN & Michael KENNA

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NUDE STUDIES | AU Tze Long, Ben FELTEN & Michael KENNA

Exhibition Dates: 13 May 2021 – 13 June 2021

Opening Reception: Thursday 13 May, 2021, 4-8pm

Blue Lotus Gallery: G/F 28 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Opening hours: Wed-Sun | 11am to 6pm

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Michael Kenna ‘Mina, Study 4’ Japan, 2011, Courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery

‘NUDE STUDIES’ explores the age-old fixation by artists to represent the human body through the lens of three contemporary photographers. All practice within the analog domain and manifest their work in unique forms. Michael Kenna, world famous for his serene black and white landscape photography breaks new ground by photographing the human figure. For colour and the vital female gaze we turn to Au Tze Long whose intimate and deeply personal works move between stories, dreams, ritual and reality, whispering of life’s inherent messiness and pain. Ben Felten’s project on photosynthesis marriages content and technique as his double exposures of plants on nudes come to life through cyanotype printing.

Benoit Felten, ‘Palms on the Back’, Hong Kong 2021, Courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery

Prints, books and zines by Au Tze Long, Ben Felten and Michael Kenna will be available at the exhibition.

The Opening Reception on the 13th May is part of the Central West Galleries Day and the exhibition is an Associated Project of Le French May 2021

Au Tze Long 區子朗 ‘Siu Ding 04’ Hong Kong, 2018, Courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery

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About the Artists:

Au Tze Long sees photography as a sublimation from reality to spirituality. A graduate of the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, she was awarded a scholarship through the Julian Lee Asia One Photographic Awards in 2017. Her first photo-book Intosomnia was published in 2018, and in 2018-19 she held solo photography exhibitions in Hong Kong and Tainan, Taiwan. Au is also an indie singer in two bands – Carame/ and Artichoke Heart — her music interests are diverse, from dream pop to improvising ritual chant.

Ben Felten is a French born photographer living in Hong Kong. He started his photography work 15 years ago shooting jazz musicians in small Parisian clubs. When he moved to Asia in 2014, his work shifted towards street photography using a panoramic film camera. This led him to exploring the more unusual features of film photography, including double exposures. He was also commissioned to illustrate a couple of large format books, Dreamhounds of Paris (2014) and Unknown Armies (2016). This led him to perfecting his portraiture work, and in 2018 the double exposure and portrait threads merged into the Photosynthesis project. This in turn rekindled his love of cyanotype printing which he’d dabbled in 10 years earlier. In 2020, he released a zine of his panoramic street work called Colours of Shanghai.

Michael Kenna was born in 1953 in Widnes, Lancashire, England, just 12 miles from Liverpool. In 1981 he received the Imogen Cunningham Award and subsequently sold out a major exhibition at The Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco. Since then, there have been close to 400 solo exhibitions of Michael Kenna’s work in galleries and museums throughout the world. Kenna has had over 50 books published on his work and has won numerous awards. His limited edition fine art photographic prints are in the permanent collections of such important institutions. Michael Kenna currently resides in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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