Charles Uzzell-Edwards aka Pure Evil 

Charles Uzzell-Edwards aka Pure Evil on Bibo, Hong Kong

The Welsh graffiti artist on the new Hong Kong restaurant that is packed full of contemporary art by some of the world’s most exciting talents
  
  

Bibo, in Hong Kong, 'is a restaurant, but feels more like a contemporary art gallery'
Bibo, in Hong Kong. ‘People go there to photograph themselves with the art.’ Photograph: PR

There’s this mad place in Hong Kong, which opened this year called Bibo: it’s a restaurant, but feels more like a contemporary art gallery. You walk in and there’s a huge Jean-Michel Basquiat painting; you’re in the toilet and there’s a Damien Hirst picture right above the cubicle. There’s a Daniel Arsham on a bookshelf, a couple of Banksys on the walls – it’s got so much art by amazing artists. People go there to photograph themselves with the art – it’s quite the place to be in Hong Kong at the moment.

Rumour has it the owner used to be a huge Tintin fan and sold some originals to fund this place. He’s going ballistic getting a collection together. This guy from Lisbon called Vhils likes to chisel into walls and has done a portrait with a drill; street artist KAWS has done some work; and I painted a series of artworks on the spines of books.

The food is French and really great – the executive chef is Mutaro Balde – but the surroundings are what makes it unique. They’ve really given artists the freedom to be experimental. You’d walk past if you didn’t know it was there, but inside it’s a real adventure.
163 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, bibo.hk

 

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