Exhibition · Asia Society Hong Kong Center · Hong Kong
Marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Taiwan’s pioneering Ton Fan Group, Asia Society Hong Kong Center proudly presents Ho Kan: The World Opens Between Forms – an exhibition exploring the deeply interconnected stories of European and Asian modernism through the work of one artist. Chantal Miller Gallery 21 November 2026 – 21 February 2027 Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. *Please note that the Chantal Miller Gallery will be closed to the public on December 5 (Saturday). Ho Kan: The World Opens Between Forms brings the work of 94-year-old postwar geometric abstract master Ho Kan (霍剛, b. 1932) to Hong Kong for his first institutional solo-presentation in the city. Through 70 artworks and never-before-seen archival and personal materials from the newly-launched Ho Kan Art Archive, this exhibition offers a comprehensive retrospective of Ho's artistic evolution over his seven decades, tracing his role in co-founding Taiwan's pioneering Ton Fan Group and his fifty years in Milan’s avant-garde art world. Based in Taipei since 2014, Ho continues to draw from memories collected across Nanjing, Taipei, and Milan, refining his fusion of Daoist and Buddhist philosophy with Chinese calligraphy and Western abstract geometric forms. Ho deconstructs and recombines the essential formal elements of art into character-like symbols, assembling stroke, weight, direction, and interval into an emotionally resonant visual language for each viewer to decode, completing the work by drawing from their own inner world and feelings. This exhibition invites viewers to examine the “worlds” that unfold in these meeting points, from the relationship between colors and forms to artistic cultures and philosophies. On the 70th anniversary of the Ton Fan Group’s foundation, the spirit of Ho Kan’s painting philosophy, namely, that no form operates independently of others, underscores this exhibition’s aim of reframing the relationship between Asian and Western modernism as one of…