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Tang Ying Chi x Tsang Chui Mei: SEVEN WEEKS FIVE DAYS
Closing Reception
25 May 2024, 3-6 pm
Karin Weber Gallery is excited to announce ‘Seven Weeks Five Days’, an artistic collaboration between two renowned female talents in the Hong Kong arts scene. Good friends and inspiring colleagues, Tang Ying Chi and Tsang Chui Mei combine forces and creativity in this show, pairing their paintings to create a unique dialogue between two individuals and their artistic energies.
Tsang Chui Mei is renowned for her semi-abstract landscapes. She delicately layers paint on paint, then constructs delicate layers by scratching, honing and polishing to achieve her own flowing compositions or ‘scenes’. Nature, its mountains and rocks, is implied via cracks, rugged surfaces and thick applications of paint, whilst a range of perspectives hints at Tsang’s roots in traditional Chinese painting. Says the artist, “my work implies the sense of impermanence that temporal things, in a continuous change of condition, are subject to decline and renewal.”
Tang Ying Chi’s landscapes are more defined through some outlines and strong colour washes yet are also entirely imaginary. The artist equally draws on the inspiration and techniques of Chinese landscape painting in applying multiple perspectives in her work. For Stella Tang, ‘’the making of art gives me opportunities to think of our living life in all perspectives.”
As both artists choose works to feature side by side in carefully selected pairings for ‘Seven Weeks Five Days’ – a show as long as its title suggests – the dynamic of their relationship comes to life and generates an energy of its own.
The exhibition also features soundscape by Dino Rib. "Scoring: Genesis" comprises two exhibition soundtracks created for the exhibition. By manipulating audio samples and incorporating live-recorded audio feedback, the durational sound work seeks to investigate the potential correspondences between the grammars of painting (layering, texture, symbolism, mark-making, rhythm) and those found in sonic compositions. Additionally, it endeavors to sonify the domain that extends beyond verbalization, capturing the abstract, atmospheric, and at times emotional qualities inherent in the paintings that underlie the creation of the landscapes.
Based in Hong Kong, Dino Rib (Wong Lok Hin) is a time-based media artist who focuses on moving images, sonic art and live performances. Dino obtained his bachelor degree at Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, followed by a Master degree in Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. Over the years, his works and performances were presented locally and overseas in Japan, Taiwan and Australia. Apart from his personal artistic practices, Dino is also the founding member of the local artist collective EJAR, independent curator and art educator in various institutes.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Karin Weber Gallery, 20 Aberdeen Street, Central,Hong Kong