Artist

I would like to choose a local artist named  Chengyao He to look into. 

Gallery Visit

On the last Saturday, October 6, 2012 I went to visit three galleries in Central.

(1)Matt Hope”Spectrum Divide” 

(2)Cerith Wyn Evans”Grace to be born and live as variously as possible..”

(3) John Young Zerunge

#1

When I first stepped into the gallery of “Spectrum Divide”, I was slightly shocked as it was completely dark there. Then the TV was on, the body shape of audiences were projected to the screen. 

However, at one end of the gallery was installed a bank of lightning sources numbering in the tens of thousands that emit a spectrum of light invisible to the naked eye. The speaker asked us to use our phone to capture the end of the gallery and it was those pink lightning sources. 

Visitors to this installation project is simultaneously split into two parallel worlds: the flesh of the body and its mediated image. This piece of art draws parallels between machine vision and human blindness.It took a very short time to visit this gallery but the outcome was so obvious. 

#2 

In the first floor gallery, four crystal chandeliers were installed. This is to create a sense of theatrical occasion and an infinite world of interpretations. The light flicks on and off in different pulses and the chandeliers seem to be “breathing” .Each of the chandelier was orchestrated to react to the beat of a particular music such as Gimme Shelter(1969) by the rolling stone. These music suggests a fantastical structure of communication with intimations of an otherworldly presence or an important séance. I like this piece of art most as I think the artist is well-planned and I really like the idea that the light flicks on and off to represent breathing. The chandeliers may be simple but when we look at them passionately, it not hard to find them flicks beat by beat. Art takes time and passion to look and watch but not glance them. 

There was a huge text sprawls across the second floor of the gallery. This is very eye-catching. 

#3 

The last gallery that we visited was mainly about the old days in Macau. The artist: John Young was born in Hong Kong and moved to Australia and that he got the cross-cultural background. Therefore, arts from him are mainly about cross-culture. Young used brush, canvas and print to reflect the transformations of the old Macau days, I think the way he present his idea is interesting as he painted on the printings.