The Unit and Its Variations
Artbridger presents The Unit and Its Variations during Hong Kong Art Week, a solo exhibition by the late Lebanese modernist Hussein Madi. The exhibition focuses on his distinctive language of form, where painting, printmaking, and sculpture distill life into essential shapes including birds, curves, and figures. Clarity and structure transform repetition into poetic exploration.
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2026.3.20 - 2026.3.29
2026.3.20 (7pm)
2/F, Soho House Hong Kong, 33 Des Voeux Road West, Sheung Wan
Hussein Madi's work unfolds as a continuous act of drawing. Surfaces become dynamic fields in which lines, shapes, and architectural traces emerge together in a sustained rhythm. Observed life forms are reduced to units and repeated across the surface with variations in scale, position, and proportion. Madi emphasized that originality does not always require inventing new forms. Returning to the same form again and again allows it to reveal all it can contain.
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About the artist
Hussein Madi (1938–2024) was born in Chebaa, South Lebanon. He studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in Beirut and furthered his practice in Rome for more than twenty years. His work spans painting, printmaking, and sculpture, distinguished by distilled forms of animals, plants, and human figures, disciplined structure, and a balance between curves and geometry. Madi's works are included in the collections of the British Museum, Institut du Monde Arabe, and the Ueno Museum in Tokyo and have been exhibited at major international biennials.
Madi's approach transforms repeated forms into units that convey subtle energy and rhythm while maintaining coherence. Each composition carries traces of movement, time, and transformation that are integral to the work.
Exhibition Dates: 20 to 29 March 2026 Opening: 7pm, 20 March Location: Soho House - 2/F - Hong Kong
