EXHIBITION

  Flower Series: Embrace Your Inner Orange, 2024Acrylic on canvas59¹⁄₁₆ × 59¹⁄₁₆ inches (150 × 150 cm)Hong Kong, Lévy Gorvy Dayan & Wei, How Mundane!, August–September 2024.   Comprising vibrant colors and bold geometries, Michael Lau’s Flower series illuminates the artist’s painterly investigations of line and form through the traditional subject of the still life. While Lau initiated his Flower paintings in 2020, the series harkens back to his early practice—forming a link with his 1999 solo presentation, Gardener at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which featured sculptural characters influenced by Lau’s friends (graffiti artists, DJs, rappers, and skateboarders). Of...

Flower Series: “There is no blue without orange and without yellow.” II, 2024Acrylic on canvas70⅞ × 55⅛ inches (180 × 140 cm)Comprising vibrant colors and bold geometries, Michael Lau’s Flower series illuminates the artist’s painterly investigations of line and form through the traditional subject of the still life. While Lau initiated his Flower paintings in 2020, the series harkens back to the artist’s early practice—forming a link with his 1999 solo presentation, Gardeners, featuring figural characters including friends of the artist (graffiti artists, DJs, rappers, and skateboarders)—exhibited at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Of his figurative floral works, the artist...

The Portrait series is Michael Lau’s latest practice in 2022, in which the artist fused personal stylized elements with the art historical pioneers on intimate canvases, paying tribute to those masters who have expanded the possibilities in art in their respective fields while incorporating his distinctive painting styles and motifs – elements of flowers, slogans, post-it notes, and price tags – a further development from those masters’ contributions. Unlike traditional portraitures, works in the Portrait series deliberately avoid the delicate depiction of the figure's features, relying instead on stylized contours and visual symbols related to the subject of the painting...

10 Feb – 5 Mar 2023 “The true beauty of spring always finds its way to thrive beyond the fences.” —Michael Lau  SPLENDID PARK, Hong Kong artist Michael Lau’s debut institutional exhibition, presents near 40 artworks including paintings and sculptures created from 2011–2022, featuring iconic series in the artist's oeuvre including Gardener, Package Change, First Encounter, Soliloquy, Master, Flower, and Portrait. In the last two decades, Lau has played a pivotal role in leading the global upsurge of collectible designer toys heralded by Gardener, an avant-garde figurine series created in the 1990s that embody the quintessence of Hong Kong street...