Experience of Chinese Landscape Painting, by Tang Kai Yiu Frank (Hong Kong)
Chinese
Landscape paintings emphasize the combination of the environment and
the painter himself. However, it comes as a dubious statement that
people nowadays are still touched by the paintings and experience the
feeling of the painter.
"If we don't build on traditional, what should we build on?" Xu Bing. Landscape painting in an urban area. Relationship between landscape and mindscape. Reality vs Virtuality. www.tangkaiyiu.com
Tree(s)
Tang's
work explores the relationship between Chinese painting and the
painting process on video. In the work, Tree(s), Tang emulates motifs of
trees from different painting manuals for traditional artists and
captures how he, as a contemporary artist, to reconsider the motif of
tree through life sketching. The work evokes viewers to ponder upon how
traditional cultural has evolved, appropriated, and lose in contemporary
contexts and what tradition could be in the mind of artist and
viewers.
Tree(s)
Trees in Hong Kong are given names by the government.
