1a space is pleased to present a brand new young artists\u2019 exhibition. The exhibition titled Pre-Artist, featuring 4 fresh graduates from Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Visual Arts (BA): Mark CHUNG, MA On Yee, LAU Po Yan, SUM Wing Kiu.<\/p>\n
The title, Pre-Artist, named by these 4 fresh graduates, deeply express their direct but intricate question, \u201cHow to start to be an artist?\u201d They realize that the most important thing for a visual arts fresh graduate is to keep the momentum. However, facing the pressure of sustain a living, pressure from the family, pressure from being unsure of your own craft, pressure from the success of your friends; a lot of the students give up working as an artist after 2 years out of their institution. Pre-Artist, is a state of unsure (uncertainty) that they find themselves in. However, among them, there is no doubt that they possess the desire and need to be an artist, but perhaps, as they suggest, this is an obvious statement in a humble manner.<\/p>\n
This time, 1a space plays a special role, not only providing the venue, but more importantly, to encourage and establish a platform for the fresh graduates to experience a formal exhibition through a professional process. As a non-commercial exhibition venue, 1a space aims to provide alternative vision for art practitioner, who starts from pure emotions, personal experience, textile sensitivities, to search for a future artistic and conceptual approach and establishment. <\/p>\n
The graduates that 1a space have chosen for this exhibition tend to show their differences from the \u201cmain stream\u201d practice and outcome in the commercial market. Their raw expression with sensitivity towards their mediums and comprehensive conceptual development amplifies the honest directness of their works.<\/p>\n
Among 4 graduates, Mark Chung\u2019s and Ma On Yee\u2019s works are concerning about family history. Mark\u2019s revisiting journey (both physical and mental) of his mother\u2019s history extends from his mother\u2019s growing up town to every single little moments as suggested in the photos and footages of the videos. For Ma On Yee\u2019s story-telling strategy, she shows the fragility of her grandmother by carefully dealing with clay as a drawing surface. Lau Po Yan gives a stunning effect by using thick oil paint and the \u2018inserting\u2019 ready-made objects onto the painting. Lau\u2019s painting is about the spatial congestion of the place she lives, while Sum Wing Kiu\u2019s installation is from the very inner-self emotion. The tying and hanging of the \u201corganic\u201d material (bread), almost like a staging set presenting a motion of assembled body parts that performs a Kafka-style of alienation and Francis Bacon-style of distortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373317,373495],"area_type":[],"event_language":[],"series":[],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1273880","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-visual-arts-en","event_category-visual-arts-mixed-art-forms-en","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1273880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1273880"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1273880"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1273880"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1273880"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1273880"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1273880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}