White Cube is currently hosting “Time and Being,” British artist Darren Almond’s first exhibition in Hong Kong, which features two new series of paintings and sculpture.The ground floor displays three of Almond’s “flip clock” sculptures and multi-panel mirror works that evoke the random yet controlled iterations of nature and life as expressed by the language of numbers. The numbers in these clocks have been laterally bisected, in a gesture that suggests that time can be both a steady constant and mercurially variable.On the first floor, audiences will find new paintings of nocturnal landscapes, including works based on full-moon shoots in Patagonia from 2013 that capture an enchanting spectrum of color that makes up the void of the night sky — apparently black, this chromatic space is in fact made up of multiple strata of prime colors.Almond’s last major showing in Asia was “Second Thoughts,” held at the Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan in November 2013, which included works based on his video recordings of an ascetic Buddhist ritual designed to produce enlightenment that unfolds over a 7-year period around Mount Hiei, near Kyoto.Darren Almond’s “Time and Being” runs at White Cube Hong Kong through March 12, 2016.
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