Chow
Chun Fai 周俊輝
• born
in Hong Kong in 1980
• graduated
from the CUHK
– Bachelor
of Arts (2003)
– Master
of Fine Arts (2006)
• Award
winners of
– Hong
Kong Arts Centre 30thAnniversary Award Grand Prize
– Sovereign
Asian Art Prize…
• Chairman
of Fotanian Artist Village
• Candidate
of 2012 HK Legco election
– Sports,
Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency
His artwork includes mixed media work, painting, photography, video art…
Most significant series:
1.
Oil
Painting
- Started from 2001
- Oil on canvas
- Theme based on his livelihood
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Hong Kong
Taxi Series
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Hong Kong
Street Series
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| Taxi (2003) |
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Mong Kok, Sai Yeung Choi
Street (2004)
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2. Photo installation
- Started from 2005
- Reproducing Western
classical painting
- Renaissance Trilogy (2005)
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| "Last Supper", Renaissance Trilogy I (2005) |
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| "Creation of Adam", Renaissance Trilogy II (2006) |
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| "Academy", Renaissance Trilogy III (2006) |
3.
Painting
on movie
- Started from 2006
- enamel paint on canvas
- shot and caption from local
movie scene
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| Escape the Giang Hu world (2006) |
I truly appreciate Chou Chun Fai’s art work, especially his painting on movie series. His paintings remind me the lines of the movie. It is easy for people forget a particular scene and lines in the movie, for example, the scene “Escape the Giang Hu world” from your last picture is one of the most meaningful scene in the film that I have forgot in the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. After watching Chow’s work, it reminds me that meaningful and beautiful scene. Moreover, I think his paintings of movies scenes express not only the character and the director intend to express, it also includes the own interpretation of the painter. The same scene, by changing the lines, color, and brightness, can generate a totally different viewpoint from different viewer. I suggest you can do more research on his movie painting, because this art form is successful as it can generate interaction between viewers, movie maker as well as painter itself.
回覆刪除Hi Sharon, I enjoy your blog very much and I’m glad to share my opinion with you.
回覆刪除First of all, I find the idea of ‘photo installation’ really fascinating. Generally speaking, I think the recreation of paintings in the form of photo installation actually gives a new life to those original masterpieces. The artist Chow Chun Fai not only makes use of the new technology to put hundreds and thousands of 3R photos together, which in my view is the main characteristics of contemporary art (combine traditional art with new technology), but also create rather interesting and funny content by using photos of him own face. It’s so creative and wondrous! I like his painting on movies as well. All the recreations bring new and specific elements into the original ones.
While, I think you should review and analyse further about his work and find out what he really wants to express through these artworks.
Nevertheless, I truly appreciate Chow’s work and your reviews! The comment is just my own opinion. Welcome to discuss with me further :)
Chow’s works are interesting and have shown some special characteristics of Hong Kong. His oil paintings present the atmosphere of different scenery in Hong Kong. I like his painting on movie. He reminds me of some meaningful lines in movie. I think his oils painting series can arise Hong Kong people’s collective memory.
回覆刪除I love the series of photo installation most. Why Chow will have the ideas to use this way to reproduce Western classical painting? And his works are very big and many photos are used. I am curious about the process of making his works. I hope you can put more information of them.
Thanks for your introduction about CHOW Chun Fai’s works, which aroused great interest in him in my heart. Just like you, I like his Renaissance Trilogy a lot. He reproduced the classic masterpieces in history by splicing thousands of photos of his self-portraits. In this way he played tricks on classics and authorities, expressing his artistic interpretation and self-realization, revealing his spirits of recreation and being easy and free, which is a precious fortune for an artist. Actually, just like my study object Miss Lai Chui Han has quoted on his website, “To play a game is to rely on and interact with the representations the game generates…Games can represent. Games are representations.” CHOW is exactly playing games with arts by representing artworks.
回覆刪除With great interest and curiosity, I opened his personal website and watched almost all of his artworks. Besides the reproduction of Renaissance Trilogy, his oil paintings also impressed me a lot. Take the Hong Kong Taxi series for example. In one series, CHOW adopted various painting styles to present taxis in Hong Kong. As to the materials of painting, he employed “oil on canvas”, “enamel paint on board”, “oil on board”. So accordingly, some works are closer to classic Impressionism while others are better like Realism. From this interesting phenomenon, we can find CHOW’s variety and willingness to attempting changes, which make him really interesting and charming. What’s more important, underneath the diversity of appearance of his works, there exists conformity in both content and personal style. The former one was proved by the fact that all paintings in this series are representing taxis in Hong Kong. The latter one was displayed by his uniform employment of the sense of film shots. All his painting works are quite like film shots. This is very important to CHOW and have had a great influence in his art career. In his later works, he even focus on reproducing real film shots or videos by oil paintings. Why he prefer this” film shots approach”, I guess it is very likely because of his love in films.
Another characteristic of CHOW is that he focus his creativities on the Hong Kong local elements. I can gain another perspective, which is the artist’s own, to look at Hong Kong around.
I think Chow Chun Fai's artworks are really amazing and i really like the series that you introduce for us, which are painting on movies, oil painting and photo installations. I think the painting on movies and photo installations which he reproduce the western piece of artwork really amazed me and i like them so much. I think it is a quite unique and special idea to paint some local film scene. With the use of colors,tone, and painting method, the meaning and the mood can indeed be very different from the original scene. I think that painting these scene can remind people of the classic Chinese movies and it also acts as a way to collect memory for Hong Kong people.
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