Last weekend I spent the
afternoon at Fotanian Open Studios 2013. While ordering some food in
a local food place on the way some nice ladies translated my order,
so happened they were artists heading for the open studios too. So
they took the lead around a maze of flaking staircases and heavy duty
lifts, into an amazing and surreal post-industrial building of art
studios, well finished galleries and unrelated commercial ventures. The building offered contrasts of smelly and
neglected lift areas with spot-lit, white walled money galleries
separated by short corridors .
There was a wide-range of
work on show; from all Russian painters exhibition to Australian
artists with studios to group rented studios of more recent
graduates. (apparently a lot come straight out of arts degrees from
the nearby Chinese University of Hong Kong) some of the other
building units are let to laundry and a whole load of other
enterprises, posing challenges to the artists who work (and sometimes
live) there.
I am planning on revisit to
Fotan to speak to some artists about their work.
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