Tsang Kinwah

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ART . RedBox Studio .cn – Do a Book: Group exhibition and installation at White Space, Beijing

[...] 马军 Ma Jun, 掉对 Out, 庆庆 Qingqing, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, Rirkrit Tiravanija, 曾建華 Tsang Kinwah, Heimo Wallner, 王超 Wang Chao, Terry Winters & Ben Marcus, 徐冰 Xu Bing [...]

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Tsang Kinwah was born in Guangzhou in 1976 and currently lives and works in Hong Kong. In 2000 he graduated with honors in Fine Arts from the Chinese University in Hong Kong and in 2003 received an MA in Book Arts from the Camberwell College of Arts at the London Institute. His art installations and paintings are typically text-based and are distinctively informed by a keen sense of design. He has had solo exhibitions between Asia and Europe, including at the Mori Art Museum, Japan, and Chinese Arts Centre, London, and has been represented in major group exhibitions at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Samsung Museum of Art in Korea, and the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway. He has also participated in the 17th Sydney Biennale in 2010 and the 10th Lyon Biennale in 2009 and his works are held in international public and private collections.

O-PENis (2001-02)
Silicone, plaster and wood
32 x 30 x 10.5 cm / 12 1/2 x 11 4/5 x 4 1/5 in
Unique

O-PENis is an object in the form of a book mounted at eye-level on the wall and opens to reveal a seductive bare leg molded in between the fixed pages. This is one of the artist’s’ early explorations of the book form and embodies a raw but poignant thread of his later artistic practice using elements of the book as his medium of choice for text based works.

Artist Statement: The relationship between people is so complicated that it seems very good on the surface but, indeed, they would do everything to hurt each other. Beside these, I also tried to get involved in the structure of a book including its frame, its space between pages, etc. and use these characteristics in assisting the narration.

Futhreeck Fucharacterck Fuprimeck (2002)
Woodblock print on paper 41.5 x 31 cm / 16 1/3 x 12 2/5 in
Edition of 30

Futhreeck Fucharacterck Fuprimeck is a playful revisitation of the Three Character Classic of San Zi Jing, a Song dynasty primer of Confucian values for children written in three character triplets. In this work the artist has rewritten each word within the framework of the character 门 meaning door. Some of the words gain new meaning others become meaningless or are transformed into profanities. In contemporary Cantonese usage, the title itself Three Character Classic is synonymous with swear words. The conversion of classic literature into something dirty or indecent is amplified by the placement of each phrase along the centerfold of the book-a strategic position of concealment.

Artist Statement: What is your relationship to a book? A book is not just a book to read but also an object to feel, to hold, to touch, to smell, to play with…