Love Simply - Fotanian Open Studio 2009
Studio: Hang Fat Studio
Venue: Unit 21, 4/F, Block A, Wah Luen Industrial Centre, 15-21 Wong Chuk Yeung Street, Fo Tan, NT, Hong Kong
Artists: Chung Ching Man, Lee Ho Wing, Lee Kit, Leung Yu Tung, Lui Long Ting, Michael Lee Hong Hwee, Ng Choi Hung, Tang Kwok Hin
Curator: Tang Kwok Hin
: Talk about contemporary love
大包易賣，大錢難撈，針鼻削鐵，只向微中取利；
同父來少，同子來多，簷前滴水，點滴何曾倒流？
It is easy to sell a piece of toast. It is difficult to gain a great deal of money. Like using heads of nails to pare iron, they can only produce little effect.
Seldom come along with dads but dads often come along with their children. Like drops from eaves of houses, do we see drops rising towards the sky?
This is a set of renowned couplet placed at the front door of “Da Tong” restaurant in Guangzhou talking about what the restaurant’s owner see in his work, especially expressing the sadness. People over the world own these sorts of sincere feelings. Someone loves to express. Someone loves to conceal. In the context of words and films, themes related emotions often exist. However, it is comparatively less in the contemporary art scene due to its privacy, as the privacy denote the difficulty to make dialogues between artists and spectators. For instance, if presenting “I love you”, it is basically not appropriate to speak it once as an artwork for avoiding superficial presentation in the content of art. When we transform this sincere feeling into context of art, the difficulty of transformation will show up. Like applying a painting to represent love is hard to gain the same level of power comparing to spoken words “ I love you”.
“Love Simply” is an exhibition presenting the ways and experiment that the artists transform sincere emotion into art by not changing the essential parts, including love to parents, couple, friends, strangers or objects.
簡單愛 - 伙炭工作室開放計劃2009
單位︰恆發行
地點︰香港新界火炭黃竹洋街15-21號華聯工業中心A座4樓21室
藝術家︰鍾靜雯、李可穎、李傑、梁御東、呂朗婷、李鴻輝、吳彩虹、鄧國騫
策展人︰鄧國騫
: 談「當代」「情」
大包易賣，大錢難撈，針鼻削鐵，只向微中取利；
同父來少，同子來多，簷前滴水，點滴何曾倒流？
一副在廣州大同酒家門前著名的對聯，道出了作為經營者在酒樓打混時候看到的種種唏噓。這種真摰情感，充斥在世界的每個角落。有些人會選擇將它表達；有些人會選擇把它壓抑。而在文字及電影的世界裏，我們可以找到不少相關情感的主題或內容，倒是在當代藝術的環境，卻較難看到這一類型的展覽。
為甚麼？因為它的私密。這種私密好像令人感到跟觀眾有溝通困難。舉例說，如要陳述「我愛你」，在藝術的展示上為了不流表面，故並不會單以說一遍我愛你作為作品。而當你要將這最真誠的情感轉化為一種當代藝術的表現形式，我們會發現，最真誠的情感卻最難套上這個當代的文本。就好像要跟心儀的對象表白，要製作一幅能夠跟「我愛你」三個字有等同震憾力的繪畫一樣。箇中難度就在於此。
這個展覽，藝術家追求的是一種最直接的情感表達，並透過藝術手段，將它不偏不移的轉化過來。當中包括對父母親的情、異性的情、朋友的情、陌生人的情，以至事物的情等。
