Reproduction of
Reproduction
Paintings by Chow Chun-fai
Opening: 6 – 8 pm, (Thursday),
30th September, 2010
Location: 2/F Mai On Building, 17 – 21 Kung Yip
Street, (off Tai Lin Pai Road, Kwai Hing), Kwai Chung
*Catalogue
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Exhibition location:
1). 2/F Mai On Building, 17 – 21
Kung Yip Street, (off Tai Lin Pai Road, Kwai Hing), Kwai
Chung
2). 202 Henley Building 5 Queen’s
Road Central, Central, Hong Kong
Date: 30th September
to 23rd October, 2010
Opening Time: Mon – Fri 10am –
6:30pm, Sat 10am to 6pm
Inquiry: (852) 2526-9019 ; www.hanart.com
Hanart TZ Gallery will hold
renowned young local artist Chow Chun-fai fourth solo
exhibition in Hong Kong. The exhibition Reproduction
of Reproduction uses paintings of famous Chinese
film as a starting point, to discuss the possibility of
endless reproductions in art. Chow was born in Hong Kong
in 1980 and finished his Bachelor and Master degree in
Chinese University Hong Kong. He received awards include
“Hong Kong Arts Centre 30th Anniversary Award
Grand Prize” in 2008 and “The Sovereign Asian Art
Prize.”
Chow Chun-fai started with
painting that put Hong Kong landscape and taxi in the
spot light. Afterwards, he used a mixture of photography
and painting to create a series of work using western
classical painting as drafts. In 2006, he started using
film as his work’s motif; using local classical imagery
to transform into art work.
Many Hong Kong made films,
especially early ones, would base their stories on
historical facts. But many elements of those films are
still fictional. The new works that will be shown in Reproduction of Reproduction would base
on films which used adapted screenplays. For example in
“Red Cliffs”, the movie is about the Battle of Red
Cliffs which itself from the novel The
Romance of Three Kingdoms. In turn The
Romance of Three Kingdoms is based on The
Records of Three Kingdoms. The narration and form
of the Battle of the Red Cliffs is very different
between the film, the novel and history. This is an
example of a classical motif being continuously
reproduced in different ages and different cultures.
Another work, Flirting Scholar, recalls
a film directed by Stephen Chow. The first version that
the artist watched was a Cantonese opera version instead
of this. Both stories might not be correlated with the
historical Tang Baihu. Yet, the artist wants to recreate
a dialogue through redraw a film with an adapted
screenplay to bring out the story of the reproduction.
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