07

décembre

Arts of Word

par CHAU Ching Skye
Arts of Word

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971.
John Baldessari. (American, born 1931). Lithograph.

I always find arts only constructed in letters are interesting. They are clean, while meaningful; pure, while mysterious. Therefore I would like to write about I will not make any more boring art by John Baldessari on 1971.
John Baldessari wasn’t the only person doing text painting at that time. Other famous artists like Joseph Kosuth, also include bunch of words in their writing in order to express some kind of meaning. So, what is so meaningful for choosing this word? Is the story behind this art. Before he done this art, he did something extraordinary:  he burnt all his art works between 1953 and 1966, he even titled it as The Cremation Project.—that’s what interested me, how many people could do such thing like that? It may be insane in some other people’s view, but I do think it was a wise act.

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Superflat Monogram & Superflat First Love – Is it art or commercial?

par CHAN Long Yin
Superflat Monogram & Superflat First Love – Is it art or commercial?

The stories of these two animations are linked as a two episode story. In Monogram, the little girl, Aya, was swallowed by a panda and entered the world of Louis Vuitton, to search for her lost cell phone. In First Love, after six year, Aya entered the world of Louis Vuitton again. And she met a young designer of Louis Vuitton through the fancy colorful world.

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Wisteria(2003) By Eric Montoya

par HUI Sze Ying
Wisteria(2003) By Eric Montoya

source: http://www.ericmontoya.com/Gallery0203/Perennial15LG.htm

Eric Montoya is an American prominent contemporary artist, graduated from Seattle Art Academy. He had more than 50 personal exhibitions all around the United States. This piece of art, Wisteria, perfectly created an image of a gorgeous lady by the smart integration of the leaves, flowers and the sky. Giving people a sense of shock by vision, it also offers people a feeling of silence and peace. This is only one of the pieces under the Gallery « Perennial Beauty ». He is good at creating different elegant gesture of women by using the nature ingredients like the colorful plants, little animals and the blue sky. It makes the art work a sense of nature which audience will feel comfortable when looking at them.

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06

décembre

《草食竜》By Tetsuya Ishida

par WONG Wing Tung


《草食竜》By Tetsuya Ishida, 2003
Copyright (C)2007 石田徹也展實行委員會

Tetsuya Ishida was a Japanese painter, best known for his surrealism painting of an ordinary Japanese life. He conveys isolation, anxiety, identity crisis, skepticism, claustrophobia and solitude, uncured by these themes, by making schoolboys and businessmen as part of a factory and portraying young people. In addition, Tetsuya’s artworks usually use cool colors to process and bring out the loneliness and helpless feelings. No one knows the reason behind but I can only guess is that maybe his drawings are the reflection of the to-and-fro between life and dream. He is unable to throw of the pain and contradiction.

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SOUNDS FROM LIGHTS

par LI Cheuk Hin
SOUNDS FROM LIGHTS

Record: light from +22° 16′ 14″ +114° 68′ 48″
by Kingsley Ng
Video installation (2008)

Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art. This video installation is combined with two night views of Hong Kong on the screen and a music system.

The night view that is projecting on the left hand side is “The Peak”; the other one on the right hand side is “Victoria Harbor”. In these recorded videos, there have some flashlights, which were produced by the people who were recorded. Those are the photographic flashlights made by the tourists in “The Peak”, and the lights recorded in “Victoria Harbor”. The artist, Kingsley Ng, thinks this kind of light is the most significant thing on the Hong Kong landscape.

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How can the wooden reflect the image?

par LI Chun Hei
How can the wooden reflect the image?

Peg Mirror (2007) by Daniel Rozin
Size 42 inches H, 42 inches W, 6 Inches D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dghosA-zI6k

Peg Mirror is an interactive artwork. This media art work is made by 650 wood dowels, 650 motors, video camera, control electronics. This Peg Mirror acts just like a mirror. When a body stands in front of the Peg Mirror, the image of him will be reflected on Peg Mirror. Can you imagine that your face show on wooden?

Peg Mirror comprises several hundred wooden dowels that tips have been cut at an angle. Optically, the way we get the image is when the wood dowels tilt downwards, they get to be dark, and when they tilt upwards, they will be bright. On the ceiling, there are spotlights, aimed to give the resources of lights that reflect by different angle of the wood dowels. So we can get a good contrast on the display. The wood dowels can move up and down controlled by the computer. There are several hundred motors that are moving the wood dowels, and can position them from very down.

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05

décembre

« Heroes next door » by Chow Ka Hoo

par CHEUNG So Sum
« Heroes next door » by Chow Ka Hoo

“Heroes next door”-Chow Ka Hoo,2012
Photography

This photo is produced by Chow Ka Ho, a graduate of School of Creative Media of Hong Kong City University. Chow is an emerging artist who specializes in fine art photography. And this photo is one of his art work which was showed in his solo show and group show at Shin Hwa Gallery,2011-2012. The theme of this set of photography is called “Heroes next door”.

‘Heroes, like superman, blackman and spiderman, are all western comic heroes. But, why Hong Kong doesn’t have these kinds of heroes? When I was young, I thought that Hong Kong really needs a public hero. And when I grew up, I realized that there are so many unfair social problems in the Hong Kong. So, I created this set of photography. Can you imagine how well the society will be if these kinds of heroes are really alive?’ Chow said.

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