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| Contradiction: An Exhibition of Landscape, Cityscape & Mindscape Paintings of Hong Kong | |
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display will be new works by watercolorist Sindy Lau, oil painter Lucille
Lo, multi-medium artist Lau Yan Tsun and acrylic painter Bobby Ng. This
exhibition presents a thematic approach to the understanding of urban
Hong Kong art, its complexity, diversity and contradictory nature.
March 4 - 23, 2002 |
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Lucille Yuk-yin Lo's early artistic venture was in the Chinese ink and paper tradition. Her style derived from the Lingnan School's objective depiction and focused on multiple layering of colors. In the year 2000, Lo began her exploration in oil on canvas. With her unique visions and keen observation, Lo created a series of works featuring Hong Kong cityscapes using heavy pigments and everyday objects. The results are stunning visual and conceptual experiences with a distinct local flavor. |
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MATERIAL
CITY BY SINDY LAU |
Sindy
Yuen-hing Lau graduated
from the Hong Kong Polytechnic's Higher Certificate in Two-Dimensional
Design and now devotes her time between graphic illustration, advertising
and art. A skilled watercolorist with particular interest in depicting
Hong Kong cityscapes and city life, Lau emphasizes the medium's translucency
by painting multiple layers and juxtaposition of shapes. What distinguish
Lau are her use of hard-edged contours and abandonment of bleeding edges.
The results are unique pictorial surfaces that embodied traditional qualities
of watercolor as well as modern properties of graphic design.
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| Lau Yan-tsun (b.1953) specializes in mixed media composition of abstract geometric forms and Chinese calligraphy. By putting together different layers of printed and painted materials, Lau illustrates literal and visual images within an overwhelming surrounding. The unique quality of the collage allows the artist to produce atmospheric recession, pictorial depth and complex landscape scenery. The result is a fragmented vision that transcend time and space. To the audience, such effect is one of suffocation and liberation as one dwells along in search for a new dimension while loses his direction in doing so. |
 LOVE, LIBERTY & CHINESE LAUNDRY #21 BY LAU YAN-TSUN Mixed media on Chinese paper on canvas, 1999, 150X150cm |
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Bobby Ng Kim-ming (b.1955)'s paintings rest on four basic initiatives: figurative and abstract forms, tradition and modernity. These elements have been both the creative stimulus and inherited contradiction of Ng's works. They appear at first as traditional Chinese landscapes with apparent waterfalls and mountains, though upon closer scrutiny, the landscapes turn into pure abstract figuration that recalls the expressive style of Action Painting. What remains unchanged is a sense of motion, the signature of Ng's art that leads his audience through different time and space. LEFT: FLYING DREAM III BY NG KIM-MING, mixed media on canvas, 208x146cm |
For more paintings, please click on individual artist or perform search using the search engine: Lucille
Lo Yuk-yin |
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