KAV54 Known/Unknown Journey

The heart of the exhib­i­tion is about cel­eb­rat­ing diverse cul­ture and unleashed cre­ativ­ity and most import­antly how art-mak­ing (un)reacts to an ali­en envir­on­ment. As a visu­al artist with an inter­na­tion­al back­ground, Kave­laarshas traveled intens­ively and has had exhib­i­tions in vari­ous coun­tries across the globe such as The Neth­er­lands, France, Den­mark, South Africa, Iran and China. Achiev­ing more and more con­trol through­out the count­less art trips and endeavors, he catches, each time, the equal doze of excite­ment and bizar­re­ness when arriv­ing in a brand-new city: savor­ing the loc­al eats, mas­ter­ing no for­eign verbal lan­guages yet catch­ing sights of the visu­al ones; enga­ging with the cul­tures, or stay­ing hid­den from the hustles and bustles. Kave­laars bal­ances the known/unknown car­ry­ing “a ghostly role in the soci­ety” – just as his works, the exper­i­ence is almost abstract. Unlike many of the mas­ters in the field whose works are judged by a con­scious­ness that the works of art is inev­it­ably con­nec­ted to exist­ing space and are then gradu­ally turn­ing into “it”, Kave­laars’ canvases and papers spring out of the decision that the con­nec­tion is care­fully meas­ured or rejec­ted.

The major­ity of the works in the exhib­i­tion carry out poet­ic abstract indic­a­tion with organ­ic forms emer­ging from pat­terns of the cur­rent moment and the daily objects out of the side­walk of Hong Kong. The artist’s onsite stu­dio will also be involved as part of the exhib­i­tion present­a­tion to offer a rare peek of the artist at work, blur­ring line between the stu­dio space and pub­lic sphere.