Haven't been to an exhibition opening for long time and I think my last time was in New Zealand, probably in Unitec. Anyway, the protagonist of today's exhibition is Chinese painter Wang Nanfei, who currently lives and works in New England. Her works always surround the topics of constant city transformation. This exhibition mainly shows the series of "One World One Dream" created in 2008. By looking at the works, you might find her in her paintings. I don't know did she intent to put herself into the "environments", or just a purely coincidence. Most of her works were painted with the perspective of traditional painting of Chinese landscape, situated the viewers' point of view at an observatory as if having a bird-eye, steering at the society. Since she's been living in the foreign country, she perhaps has consciously or subconsciously made portraits of herself into her paintings. Moreover, it's very easy to spot out there are couple of places painted with wrong perspectives, and the scales of people are often asymmetry. Some people might think these are terrible mistakes, but in my opinion, these are interesting images and truly reflect our uneven, sometime heavily distorted society.
Duration:
21 October– 2 December 2011
Venue: Art Experience Gallery
Room 2009, 20/F, Cable TV Tower, 9 Hoi Shing Road, Tsuen Wan, NT, Hong Kong
21 October– 2 December 2011
Venue: Art Experience Gallery
Room 2009, 20/F, Cable TV Tower, 9 Hoi Shing Road, Tsuen Wan, NT, Hong Kong