Artist’s Reception
Friday, 16 June 2017, 6 to 8pm
Exhibition Period
10 June – 15 July 2017
Hanart TZ Gallery
401 Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong
Curator
Curated by Valerie C. DORAN
Centrifugal Force: The Art Field of Wong Chung-yu
Hanart TZ Gallery is pleased to announce the artist’s reception of Centrifugal Force: The Art Field of Wong Chung-yu, a solo exhibition by a young Hong Kong ink painter and new media artist Wong Chung-yu, to take place on Friday, 16 June 2017, from 6-8pm at the gallery. (Exhibition runs from 10 June until 15 July).
Centrifugal Force offers a unique insight into Wong Chung-yu’s intriguingly diverse but conceptually linked processes. The dictionary definition of the term centrifugal force is ‘the tendency of an object moving in a circle to travel away from the center of the circle’, and for Wong this term symbolizes his artistic momentum away from the core practices of the moment (whether his own or those of the larger ‘arts circle’) and towards new trajectories of exploration.
Featuring 33 works, including two major new series of paintings, the exhibition does not constitute a retrospective so much as a demonstration of how Wong’s artistic language and exploration continue to evolve in what can be described as both an inter-media and intra-media context.
Dating from 2003 to 2017, the works in the exhibition span a range of media and techniques, from Chinese ink landscape painting (shanshui) and abstract works in ink and colour, to collage, installation and digital animation—with the distinctive feature being that almost every work contains intriguing elements of hybridity and a quirky iconography that is very much Wong’s own.
The Phantasm 6
2015
Ink on silk
58 x 58 cm
The Phantasm 5
2015
Ink and colour on silk
183 x 183 cm
(Diptych, 183 x 91.5 cm each)
The Phantasm 12
2016
Ink on silk
87 x 23 cm
Noble Mountain 2
2013
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
75 x 70 cm
Noble Mountain 1
2013
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
75 x 70 cm
Will (number P3)
2017
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
20 x 20 cm
Will (number CC1)
2017
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
36 x 36 cm
M Theory 2
2015
Ink on paper, Digital images collage
120 x 60 cm
M Theory 3
2016
Ink on paper, Digital images collage
136 x 67 cm
M Theory 4
2016
Ink on paper, Digital images collage
136 x 67 cm
M Theory 1
2015
Ink on paper, Digital images collage
120 x 60 cm
The Castle 1
2011
Ink, colour and mixed media on silk
40 x 32 cm
The Castle 2
2015
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
68 x 30 cm
(Set of 4, 17 x 30 cm each)
The Castle 3
2015
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
50 x 40 cm
Will (number M3)
2017
Ink, colour and mixed media on silk
180 x 90 cm
Will (number 6543)
2016
Ink, colour and mixed media on silk
180 x 90 cm
Will (Z3)
2014
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
30 x 65 cm
Will (number 13456)
2016
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
46 x 120 cm
Will (number 3636)
2016
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
24 x 66 cm
Will (number CMW1333)
2016
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
36 x 66 cm
Will (number CCC333)
2016
Ink, colour and mixed media on paper
46 x 110 cm
Sodom
2007
Real-time random animation
Edition of 5
(2nd, 3rd, 4th , 5th edition)
The Garden of Eden
2003
Real-time random animation
Edition of 5 (3rd, 4th , 5th edition)
Carnivore
2015
Real-time random animation
Edition of 3 (2nd, 3rd edition)
reBond
2014
Real-time random animation
Edition of 3 (3rd edition)
Movie Machine (now presents the hot movie: A Thousand Summers)
2016
Mechanical media, ink on paper
160 x 180 x 100 cm
A Transiting Cycle of Dualism
2013
Ink on paper, pastel, wooden furniture, digital media with interaction
250 x 700 x 700 cm