A hero piece of Gary Card's 'People Mountain, People Sea' exhibition is a 4.5-meter-tall outdoor sculpture 'The Dream of Mr Somebody.'
Gary Card, one of the most in-demand set designers working in the realm of fashion with clients including Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Vivienne Westwood, Dover Street Market and LN-CC, will unveil his first solo exhibition inRunning from Wednesday to July 27, the exhibition, titled “People Mountain, People Sea” — a Chinese idiom describing how crowded a place can get — will feature sculptures, paintings and digital installations created through Card’s mischievous lens with Eastern and Western...
His version has the figure’s body clustered with familiar things that one can easily find in Hong Kong, hence changing the name of no-body — as the original figure was missing a torso, instead having only a head, arms and legs sticking out of his pantaloons — to some-body. “I think there is an audience here for me. I think people are a lot more receptive to the kind of work that I do here. I think I share a similar love for stuff in Hong Kong in particular. That’s why I feel at home here so much. The show is my love letter to China,” Card said.
Deep down, Card said the exhibition serves as a personal exploration of his relationship with an oversupply of objects. “I’ve enjoyed a fantastic career as a set designer over the last 20 years. When I started, it was about trying to get some of my art ideas into fashion campaigns and editorials. I’d like to think I had a lot of success. But it was still at the service of selling something or at the mercy of the magazine or the company I was working with.
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