MONDAY ARTPOST 2024-0408

MONDAY
ARTPOST
2024-0408
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Columns by Artists and Writers
Bob Black / bq / Cem Turgay / Fiona Smyth /
Gary Michael Dault / Holly Lee / Kai Chan /
Kamelia Pezeshki / Lee Ka-sing / Malgorzata
Wolak Dault / Sarah Teitel / Shelley Savor /
Tamara Chatterjee / Tomio Nitto / Yam Lau /
Yvonne Pigott
+ OP Edition: Lau Ching Ping, Lee Ka-sing, Ernst Logar,
Mary Padua, Lester Lee, Rong Rong, Karl Chiu, Chan
Wai Man, Yau Leung, Bobby Sham /
李 家 昇 連 載 Fragments for a Photograph [ 進 場 離 場 ]
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Cem Turgay lives and works as a photographer in
Turkey.
Fiona Smyth is a painter, illustrator, cartoonist and
instructor in OCAD University's Illustration Program.
For more than three decades, Smyth has made a name
for herself in the local Toronto comic scene as well as
internationally.
http://fiona-smyth.blogspot.com
Gary Michael Dault lives in Canada and is noted for
his art critics and writings. He paints and writes poetry
extensively. In 2022, OCEAN POUNDS published two
of his art notebooks in facsimile editions.
Holly Lee lives in Toronto, where she continues to
produce visual and literal work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lee
Kai Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in
the sixties. He’s a notable multi-disciplinary artist who
has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad.
www.kaichan.art
Kamelia Pezeshki is a photographer living in Toronto.
She continues to use film and alternative processes to
make photographs.
www.kamelia-pezeshki.com
Ken Lee is a poet and an architectural designer based
in Toronto. He has been composing poetry in Chinese,
and is only recently starting to experiment with writing
English poetry under the pen name, “bq”.
Lee Ka-sing, founder of OCEAN POUNDS, lives in
Toronto. He writes with images, recent work mostly
photographs in sequence, some of them were presented
in the format of a book.
www.leekasing.com
Robert Black, born in California, is an award-winning
poet and photographer currently based in Toronto.
His work often deals with themes related to language,
transformation, and disappearance.
Sarah Teitel is a multidisciplinary artist living in
Toronto. She writes poems, songs and prose; draws,
sings and plays instruments.
sarahteitel1.bandcamp.com/album/give-and-take
Shelley Savor lives in Toronto. She paints and draws
with passion, focusing her theme on city life and urban
living experiences.
Tamara Chatterjee is a Toronto photographer who
travels extensively to many parts of the world.
Tomio Nitto is a noted illustrator lives in Toronto. The
sketchbook is the camera, he said.
Yam Lau, born in British Hong Kong, is an artist and
writer based in Toronto; he is currently an Associate
Professor at York University. Lau’s creative work
explores new expressions and qualities of space,
time and the image. He is represented by Christie
Contemporary.

The OP Print Program (OP Editions) was organized by Ka-sing
and Holly in the nineties as a sideline to the renowned photography
publication DISLOCATION.
The goal was to compile a body of work through original photographs
in a portable format (8x10 inches) that reflects the photography scene
of Hong Kong during that period. The project began in 1995 and
concluded in 1999, two years after they relocated to Canada. Both
Ka-sing and Holly were in charge of curating the project, selecting
works from monographs or exhibitions that include some of the most
representative pieces from artists, encompassing the contemporary,
old generation masters, and foreign photographers based in Hong
Kong during that time.
Approximately 200 individual works were issued. In the print
program, 20 limited editions were produced and signed by the
artists. Black and white works are fiber-based gelatin silver prints,
while colour works consist of Cibachrome photographs or
chromogenic prints.
Some works in the program have already sold out. Ka-sing and Holly
are currently working on organizing these into five large volumes of
original photographs as Institution Collections for public galleries.
They are also in the process of creating a book that features the
complete body of work.
10 works from
OP Editions in the
third season of
1997.
We consider it a cross-section of Hong Kong’s photography history
in the nineties, which is an important period when Hong Kong
photography was heading towards the contemporary era.

Lau Ching Ping
Untitled (Space Museum, Tsiushatsui), 1997
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/20
Signed, and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Lau Ching Ping

Lee Ka-sing
Roses, 1988
8x10 inch, chromogenic print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/20
Signed, titled and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Lee Ka-sing

Ernst Logar
Sham Shui Po, 1996
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/20
Signed, titled and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Ernst Logar

Mary Padua
Hong Kong Pedestrian Bridges series: Des Voeux Road Central
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/20
Signed, titled and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Mary Padua

Lester Lee
Nude, 1990
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/20
Signed, and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Lester Lee

Rong Rong
Untitled
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/18
Signed, and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Rong Rong

Karl Chiu
Untitled (horse racing), 1996
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 20
Signed, and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Karl Chiu

Chan Wai Man
Reclamation, 1996
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/19
Signed, and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Chan Wai Man

Yau Leung
Boat Racing Day, Victoria Harbour, 1997
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
This is a work print, no actual editions were made
OP Edition
Yau Leung

Bobby Sham
Bob pin series 2.0: East meets West, One Day in Repulse Bay (Part 1), 1994
8x10 inch, chromogenic print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/20
Signed, and numbered on verso
OP Edition
Bobby Sham

This fictional work was created for
“Another Day in Hong Kong” ( 香 港 再 偶 拾 ),
an exhibition held at
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong ( 亞 洲 藝 術 文 獻 庫 )
from March 18 to August 31, 2024.
The work is presented in the form of a book,
measuring 8x10 inches, comprising
92 pages, with a hardcover
that includes 21 pages featuring pictures
along with text written in Chinese.
The first edition, designated as the
Exhibition Edition, is limited to
a print run of 50 copies.
A Fictional Work by Lee Ka-sing
Order this book at Blurb (c$60 +shipping)
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11932183-1996-10-19

林 海 ( 李 家 昇 作 品 )
林 海
This book comprises the initial 16 fragments
of “ 林 海 ” (L.H.), an ongoing narrative. It was
published on the occasion of the exhibition
“THE 50 GLADSTONE” in Toronto, held from
April 27 to July 28, 2024. This special edition
is limited to twenty copies only. “ 林 海 ” (L.H.)
is a fictional work written in Chinese and
was initially serialized weekly in MONDAY
ARTPOST starting January 15, 2024.
A Fictional Work by Lee Ka-sing
(Hard cover, 88 pages, c$40)
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( 林 海 ) Fragments for
a photograph
Lee Ka-sing 李 家 昇
15. ( 進 場 離 場 )
[ 林 海 ] 序 目
A FICTIONAL WORK
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8.( 詩 記 事 )
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11.( 起 跑 線 )
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14.( 纏 綿 )
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An archive of this series in text format is available at: https://LH.leekasing.com

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
while millions of upturned
earthlings
some of whom may go blind
from unassisted black-sun-gazing
are thrilled
by the spectre
of afternoon darkness (what if
it were always like this??!!)
The Solar Eclipse
(Monday April 8, 2024)
what children
drawn to the darkness
in a passover
of momentary medievalism!
so the moon
comes between the sun and us
and nature’s rheostat
dials down the daylight
for a short shuddering time
and the vantage-point cities
brace themselves for
sudden pilgrim crowds
huge numbers of light
mendicants
hands held out
for the hungry miracle
think of the letdown
when the light
comes back on
all of them
stumbling away again
and again

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Sky Watching

Sketchbook
Tomio Nitto

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs,
2010-2024
Number 25: Lakeside Banana
Lakeside Banana
I’ve never awarded bananas much dignity, their potassium content notwithstanding (slipping on
their skins is of course a mainstay of physical comedy), but I do think this one demonstrates at least
the beginnings of a mystical bent.
This banana is sitting on a stool in front of a paper blind in the Toronto office of my late friend,
painter David Bolduc. It is sometime during the early summer of 2010 (the year David died). The
blind is meant to serve as a fragile wall of what is, just for this one night, my ad hoc sleepover
bedroom in David’s loft.
The low-light insufficiency of my little Canon Elph digital camera, with all of its 7.1 Maga-pixels
summoned to the task, still can not find its way to lend much definition to a darkling subject—such
as my bedside banana. The camera does what it can, and then gives up, content to let whatever lies
before its struggling lens be whatever it wants to be.
In this case, the blind wanted to be a grey sky, sunk deeply in twilight, its lower edge suddenly
summoned into use as a far shore. The space beneath it turned into a still, stone-cold lake, while the
stool supporting the nocturnal banana ended by looking like the edge of a dock, or the wide arm of an
Adirondack chair, or a small round table sitting by the water.

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Drawing
ink on paper, 35 x 35 cm

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

Black Flowers: Drawings
by Malgorzata Wolak Dault

The Photograph
Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Alaska by Gordon Hawkins

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
France (March, 2022) – We took a walk along
an old train passage, for a little meander in
nature. The garden passage is still inclusive
of a patch of railroad track and a single train
car; now used as an educational centre. While
rather overgrown with native plant species, the
passage also hosts a few surprises. I was drawn
to the shape of l’hôtel à insectes; the outer
form reminded me of the archways of central
and south Asia. While the inner sanctum
seemed like a highly structured, yet organic
architectural paradise for its mini guests. It
provided fodder for the imagination.

THE 50 GLADSTONE
(Works, Objects, Artifacts,
1976 to current), a Lee
Ka-sing and Holly Lee
exhibition, 2024.
April 27 to July 28, 2024
Toronto

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