Widely considered one of the most ambitious and influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley often drew from a wide spectrum of high and low culture, mining the banal objects of everyday life to question and dismantle Western conceptions of contemporary art and culture. Beginning 27 October 2022, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong is proud to present the late Los Angeles-based artist’s first solo exhibition in the Greater China: ‘Mike Kelley: Subharmonic Tangerine Abyss.’ Organized in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the exhibition focuses on one of Kelley's most significant later series, Kandors. Initiated by Kelley in 1999, the Kandors series comprises of Superman’s birthplace, the city of Kandor. Kandor served as Kelley's inspiration for a twelve-year long project and meditation on themes of cultural memory, passing time, and visions of utopia. In addition to the visually opulent and technically ambitious sculptures and lenticulars that Kelley’s Kandors series is known for, this exhibition will feature three distinct kinds of videos that Kelley included in his original Kandors show at Jablonka Gallery in 2007.

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