{"id":1334029,"date":"2025-09-12T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/event\/spectrumfigures-john-young-solo-exhibition-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:05:53","slug":"spectrumfigures-john-young-solo-exhibition-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/event\/spectrumfigures-john-young-solo-exhibition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SPECTRUMFIGURES&#8221; John Young Solo Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Spring in Hong Kong and during Art Basel HK 2021, John Young will be exhibiting a group of abstract paintings entitled Spectumfigures, as well as a small group of works he created thirteen years ago \u2014 1967 Dispersion; a recollection of the 1967 riots in Hong Kong, the time he departed the then British colony.<\/p>\n<p> Spectrumfigures, a series of spectrum-based coloured abstracts that celebrate the evolution of consciousness in the younger generation of Hong Kongers of the twenty-first century. The dispersion of radiant light through a prism produces a plurality of colours that mark this generation as a spirited generation of many qualities.<\/p>\n<p>The Spectrumfigures are produced by a unique process whereby Young downloads a thousand photographic images from the internet daily, algorithms transform these photographic images into abstract images \u2013 one will then be chosen from the thousand, and caringly painted up through jurassic but intricate oil painting techniques. It is what Young terms \u2018Human-Technology Friendship\u2019 paintings, a hope for the reciprocity between the cerebral strength of technology and the viscerality evoked by oil painting. This ironic title is derived from the name of a German electro-punk band in the 80\u2019s Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (or German-American Friendship).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373317,373489],"area_type":[350138],"event_language":[],"series":[],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1334029","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-visual-arts-en","event_category-visual-arts-mixed-media-and-installation-en","area_type-local","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1334029","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=1334029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1334029"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1334029"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1334029"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1334029"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1334029"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1334029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}