The art of seeing

For Art Month in Hong Kong, we've curated a best-of list of aesthetic splendour

DAVID ZWIRNER

Neo Rauch: Propaganda

One of the hot tickets of this fair is no stranger to the city. David Zwirner has invited German artist Neo Rauch to his H Queen's gallery to stage the artist's debut solo presentation in Asia, Propaganda, which features 15 new paintings; eight are large-scale canvases and seven are smaller, more intimately scaled works. The Leipzig-based artist, who Zwirner is bringing for the second time to Art Basel in Hong Kong, is rightly heralded for his ability to combine the traditions of figurative painting with surrealism in forging a new kind of dreamlike, ambiguous visual language in painting. As such, he has developed a strong collector base in China. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring a short story by novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann. (March 26–May 4)