Artist
Statement
What
are TRUTH and REALITY? Do they exist? Can people perceive or find
them out? And how?
Generally,
those concepts and ideas accepted and believed by the majority would
be considered as “Truth” or “Reality”, but
is it really the case or they are just relatively “true”
and “real”? We can say that the so-called “Truth”
and “Reality” are subjective, temporal and regional.
The
appearance of things does not necessarily reflect the inner ‘Truth’.
Beautiful things could be either beautiful or ugly inside and the
same case also applies to ugly or vulgar objects. The linkage between
the surface and the inside, the outer and the inner is rather fragile
and is relied on how people perceive or interpret things and whether
they would carry out these processes under the existed norms, believes
or from different points of view.
The so-called “Art”, for some artists, has its own realm
that exists for its own sake and does not or even should not reflect
or interact with the things and objects outside. However, as we
are living in the world and are surrounded by different things and
objects, the ways we think, live and behave are inevitably affected
by and linked with the outside world. In fact, we are embedded in
a close and inseparable relationship with our surroundings. For
me, art is not emancipated from the world but rather reflect or
link with it. By posing different kind of questions and thinking
about what we are familiar with, what happens around us and the
legitimacy of pre-existing things, ideas, believes, etc., showing
altered compositions which is different from the existing, and combining
and juxtaposing the classic, elegant form with vulgar, secular content,
viewer would be lead to rethink about the legitimacy, authority
and authenticity of the existing views and ideas from a different
angle.
SOLO
EXHIBITION
2004 Space – Installation Exhibition by
TSANG Kin-wah
(The Room With A View Gallery, Shanghai)
1999 Calligraphy on Fortunes
(Galerie Martini, Hong Kong)
AWARDS
2004 Finalist, The 2004 Sovereign Annual Contemporary
Asian Art Prize
(The Sovereign Art Foundation)
2003 Prize of Excellence, Vibrant Hong Kong 2003: Visual Arts Open
Competition
(Hong Kong Visual Arts Society)
2002 Selected entry in the competition Mobile Art Gallery
(APO, LCSD, ADC, First Bus, Hong Kong)
2001 Prize of Excellence, Hong Kong Art Biennial 2001
(LSCD, Hong Kong)
2000 Ramon Woon Creative Prize
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
Cheung's Fine Arts Awards
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
1999 Ting Yen Yung Memorial Artistic Achievement Award
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
First Award in Western Painting
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
First Award in Printmaking, Watercolour & Drawing
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
Y. S. Hui Arts Collection Awards
(New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong)
Finalist (Painting Category), Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition
(Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong)
1998 Finalist (Painting Category), Philippe Charriol Foundation
Art Competition
(Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong)
SCHOLARSHIPS
2002-2003 British Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship
(Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom)
TSANG
kin-wah
Camberwell College of Arts, the London Institute, London:MA
Book Arts
Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong: BA
(Hons) Fine Arts
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