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16 Mar 08 |
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I'm now having a solo exhbition at Yvon Lambert Paris where I show two new groups of work, one new installation and a group of white porn paintings, and also a previous installation work "Untitled - Hong Kong". If you're in Paris, you can check it out! Hope you would like them.
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TSANG KIN-WAH
Yvon Lambert Paris
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3 Jan 08 |
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My works are featured in three books published by Victionary (Hong Kong) and Instituto Monsa de Ediciones (Spain), which are just out recently. Hope you would like them!
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Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts
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When Space Meets Art / When Art Meets Space
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Type Addicted
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19 Jul 07 |
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I will have my first solo exhibition in New York at Yvon Lambert New York, Project Space and will show two new installations with paintings. At the same time, some of my pattern paintings would be shown at the booth of Yvon Lambert at ShContemporary 2007 in Shanghai.
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TSANG KIN-WAH
Yvon Lambert New York
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ShContemporary 2007 |
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20 Apr 07 |
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I will participate in a group show at ArtChina Gallery in Hamburg and show some of my pattern paintings and prints.
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YOU CANNOT CLONE IT, BUT YOU CAN BUY IT. Fashion, media and culture trends. Life in the metropolises and themselves – a lot is being cloned. Commercialization provides globalization. Chinese artists visualise this topic in a very fresh and provoking manner. We exhibit works by Shi Yong, Zhang Tin Jun, Tsang Kin-Wah, Liu Xiaoshu, Liu Yin Jun and Liu Fei. Time of exhibition: 11th May until 30th June, 2007
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22 Mar 07 |
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I will participate in Art Fair Tokyo 2007, April 9 - 12, at the Tokyo International Forum and will show my work "White Cube" at the booth of Art-U room gallery.
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Art Fair Tokyo 2007 Art-U room
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14 Mar 07 |
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My work "Untitled - Hong Kong" is selected and awarded the "TDC Prize" by the Tokyo Type Directors Club recently, which will be shown at their annual exhibition in Tokyo next month. I'll also give a lecture about the work together with other award winners on 8 April. At the same time, the work will be included in an exhibition about Tokyo TDC at Melbourne.
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2007 Ginza Graphic Gallery Ginza Graphic Gallery
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+ & - + X Faculty Gallery Faculty Gallery
Tokyo Type Directors Club
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20 Feb 07 |
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「不中不英 -- 香港藝術展」Chinglish – Hong Kong Art Exhibition
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「不中不英 -- 香港藝術展」 如果廣東話將要消失，你最想保留哪一句話？ 香港人說話時中時英、又中又英，最後不中不英，這是否就是我們對港式廣東話的集體記憶？一個地方的語言跟它的文化藝術一樣，都是有生命的東西，它們本是屬於生活，而不是屬於博物館的；它們所表現的活力、特質，是生活在同一地方的人所共同擁有的。香港由於歷史因素，華洋混集，由是我們一直在中與英之間尋找自己；在全球化的浪潮下，我們又在「國際文化」裡迷失、摸索。具本土性的東西不斷消亡，直到一天，我們發覺本來屬於生活的東西走進了博物館，那時已是「愛得太遲」… 是次展覽取名自藝術館的一件藏品 – 卜玉珍的「不中不英」。卜的作品以港式廣東話創作，表現了藝術家對這個地方的觀察和領會。同時展出的還有程展緯、洪強、李慧嫻、曾建華和黃琮俞幾位香港藝術家。他們的作品在思考語言、本土歷史文化、身份等問題上，都提供了很有意思的材料和觀點。
Chinglish – Hong Kong Art Exhibition If Cantonese is about to disappear, which one word or phrase you wish to preserve? In Hong Kong, we speak mixing Chinese and English. Chinglish, so to speak, is perhaps the collective memory of Hong Kong language. Language of a place, like its arts and culture, is an organic entity that the people of a place share. It belongs to the people’s daily life and not to the museum. Owing to its colonial history, Hong Kong is a place of mixed identities where people were caught between “the East” and “the West”. In the post-colonial global era, we are once again lost in the global village. Indigenous culture, material and immaterial, is disappearing so quickly that one day, when we realized they could be found no more but in the museum, that will be time for another confession of pain… “Chinglish” is an exhibition conceived based on a museum collection, Puk Yuk-chun’s “English in Chinese”, an interesting work of Chinese slang, words that reflect the uniqueness of Hong Kong language and culture. Also exhibiting are Luke Ching, Hung Keung, Rosanna Li, Tsang Kin-wah and Wong Chun-yu whose works provide much food for thought, for both Hong Kong people and all citizens in the global village.
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25 Nov 06 |
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I will have a collaboration with a French musician, Laurent Teycheney, who is now living and teaching in Tokyo. I will be responsible for the stage design/installation for his concert in mid-Dec and before the concert, an exhibition would also be held at the Art-U room gallery to show my latest installation.
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Clavecin + Percussion III 東京文化會館 Tokyo Culture Hall |
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Showcase: Tsang Kin-Wah Art-U room
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6 July 06 |
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I'm now having a solo touring exhibiton at the PicassoMio Gallery in Spain where I show some of my latest pattern paintings. If by chance you're in Spain, hope you would have some extra time to visit and have a look!
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Tsang Kin-Wah: 29 June - 11 Aug 2006 (PicassoMio Gallery, Madrid)
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Tsang Kin-Wah: Del 29 de junio al 11 de agosto de 2006 PicassoMio Gallery Madrid presenta, entre el 26 de junio y el 11 de agosto, la primera exposicion europea de Tsang Kin-Wah, artista hongkones ganador en 2005 del Sovereign Art Prize, el mas prestigioso premio artistico en Asia y en en 2001 el Premio de Excelencia de la Bienal de Arte de Hong Kong. Su obra se encuentra en las colecciones de la Fundacion de Arte Sovereign, el Museo del Diseno de Zurich, el Museo de Arte de Hong Kong, y el Hong Kong Heritage Museum, entre otros. Tambien ha sido nombrado como uno de los artistas emergentes mas prometedores de Asia por la revista Art AsiaPacific. Para entender la obra de Tsang, hay que tener en cuenta que Hong Kong fue colonia britanica durante mas de un siglo, re-unida a China hace una decada. Esta condicion ha hecho que los habitantes de la isla tengan una identidad diferenciada de la del resto de China, que conecta con las tradiciones britanicas tanto como con las chinas. Los motivos y disenos elegidos por Tsang se basan en los disenos de papel de pared britanicos de la epoca victoriana, inspirados a su vez en motivos chinos, reinterpretados ahora por un artista hongkones. La originalidad de Tsang Kin-Wah radica en que desarrolla disenos con motivos vegetales o geometricos, realizados a partir de la reorganizacion de palabras y frases reivindicativas, e incluso hirientes. Esta mezcla de lenguaje visual bello e intimista con el lenguaje verbal comprometido e hiriente nos hace reinterpretar la imagen que estamos viendo, y es el vehiculo que Tsang utiliza para investigar, mediante la aplicacion de materiales, colores, tamanos y proporciones, como determinados elementos afectan y cambian los efectos visuales de una misma imagen y un mismo diseno, alterando la percepcion visual de la imagen al leer el texto que la compone y ajustando el contenido de un modo muy sutil. Segun palabras del artista. “El Arte no esta emancipado del mundo sino que esta unido a el o de alguna forma lo refleja. Al formular diferentes preguntas, y pensar en que nos es familiar, que ocurre a nuestro alrededor y en la legitimidad de las cosas preexistentes, las ideas, creencias, etc… mostrando composiciones alteradas, diferentes a las existentes, y combinando y yuxtaponiendo las clasicas, formas elegantes con contenido vulgar, el espectador es empujado a recuestionarse la legitimidad, la autoridad y la autenticidad de las visiones e ideas existentes desde un angulo diferente”. Kin-Wah, comenzo a experimentar con su lenguaje artistico en 2003 realizando instalaciones especificas que cubrian toda la superficie de un espacio determinado. PicassoMio Gallery, expone algunas de estas instalaciones especificas realizadas en el pasado pero transformadas y presentadas en series de 30 pinturas y obras graficas con precios entre 630 y 5000 eur. - PicassoMio Gallery
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12 May 06 |
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I'll take part in a group show at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and show another new installation work. It will open in early June and lasts till November, so hope you would have time to visit and have a look!
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megARTstore Hong Kong Heritage Museum
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"When it comes to a serious shopping experience, Hong Kong has everything in abundance." As the Hong Kong Tourism Board slogan suggests, Hong Kong has long enjoyed a reputation as a shopper's paradise. Now, if you are looking for access to art that is as easy as shopping in a shopping mall, the soon-to-open "megARTstore" is your handy solution. |
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「到香港大血拼， 購物萬象，定能滿足你的購物慾望。」正如香港旅遊發展局的口號所言，難怪香港有購物天堂的美譽。現在，如果你想親近藝術，好像在商場購物那樣的「爽」，即將開幕的megARTstore絕對是你的明智之選
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3 Apr 06 |
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I'll participate in a group show and show a new work in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway . If you have chance to visit Oslo, please go and have a look. Hope you would like it.
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TheState of Things The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
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"The State of Things" is rooted in contemporary international design and crafts that pose questions about tradition, taste, and the expectations that are handed down to us. What unites the participating artists is that they haven't contented themselves with standing on the sidelines and complaining about things they don't think are good, but rather have created their own platforms, initiatives, style systems, notions of taste, and meeting places. They are, in other words, actively involved, and create the present in which they themselves want to live. The exhibition presents design and crafts that follow their own paths, but which nonetheless are involved in and have an effect on the general development of the design and crafts of today. Besides designers and those working with crafts, the exhibition also includes artists. For regardless of background, title, and education, they are all engaged and influence and expand our notions of design and crafts. - The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway
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16 Mar 06 |
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My works are featured in a book called "Graphics Alive" which is just released by Victionary this month. You can check this out in the bookshop or may be you can buy one from Victionary. Hope you would like it!
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In this book, we talk about graphics that create relationship with us. It is not only a relationship between audience and the entity, like what we would get from reading a flyer or seeing a poster, but a more intimate relationship with our lives. This relationship encompasses all design disciplines - including graphic design, fashion design, interior design and industrial design, etc. - quoted from Victionary (www.victionary.com)
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5 Dec 05 |
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My works will be shown in three group exhibitions in London and Hong Kong this month. So if you've time, please come and have a look!
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30 x 30 16 Dec 2005 - 24 Jan 2006 Vertigo Gallery Vertigo Gallery |
Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005 16 Dec 2005 – 7 May 2006 Hong Kong Museum of Art
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Art of Chinese Character Exhibition 17 Dec 2005 - 8 Jan 2006 Artist Commune |
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1 Sep 05 |
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I was invited to join two exhibitions in the Netherlands and Switzerland. One is the Dutch Design Week 2005 at Eindhoven, the Netherlands, which would last for about a week while the other is a poster exhibition showing some Chinese designers' typo-poster. Check them out if you have time! |
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TSANG Kin-wah at DDW 2005, the Netherlands Info page of the show and venue Dutch Design Week 2005: www.dutchdesignweek.nl
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BilderSchrift - China Typo-Poster Exhibition in Switzerland
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15 July 05 |
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I was invited to join a designer tee exhibition organized by 89268/the panic (HK music label) and have designed a limited edition tee. Check it out and remember to buy one! he~
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Designer Tee Exhibition 89268/ the PANIC the PANIC 2
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15 May 05 |
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My show is now going on at John Batten Gallery, so check this our if you've time. Mark Johnson also wrote a review on the show. Please see below. |
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White Cube - Exhibition by TSANG Kin-wah For more information, please visit: www.johnbattengallery.com |
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29 April 05 |
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My painting "I Love U" is now showing in the 2005 Sovereign Annual Contemporary Asian Art Prize Exhibition at IFC Mall in Hong Kong. I'm also awarded the 1st Prize of 2005 Sovereign Contemporary Asian Art Prize!
2005 Sovereign Asian Art Prize exhibition For more information, please visit: www.sovereignartfoundation.com |
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My works are now showing in the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2004 at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and one of them has been awarded the Bronze Award in the category Thematic - "Space".
Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2004
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I've participated in a design exhibition, DETour - Wan Chi, and show my works at the shop, G.O.D., in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Although it's not a formal art exhibition, you can still see two of my installation works and some other sideproducts as well. So now you can see, you can read and of course you can also buy my works and sideproducts!
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DETour - Wan Chai Website: http://www.detour.hk
G.O.D. 住好o的 |
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"Umbrella" : A magazine from South California recently has a review on my book "Interior" |
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Tsang Kin-wah: Interior (Hong Kong, 2003, $20.00 paper) is a stunning example of a bookwork that has a traditional basis, but is of the 21th century, discussing Image, Text and Foul Language. Here visual poetry takes over in a decorative way even though the words are four-letter and beyond. It becomes wallpaper, it becomes visually exciting, it moves and dances across the page and across the wall. The artist took William Morris as his matrix and creates a decorative visual text which became an installation at the Camberwell College of Arts London Institute, translating it later into a bookwork with discussion of what he did. From a hand silkscreened wallpaper, the book gives closer and closer views of the text, which reveals itself as four-letter words and obscenities. The discussion in the book reveals how the combination of foul language (text) with Morris' floral pattern (image) and arranging the text in the form of flowers and plants, which are swirling and running throughout the space, helps to link up their organic force which undergirds both Nature and humanity. He quotes Hal Foster. "The artist becomes a manipulator of signs more than a producer of art object, and the viewer an active reader of messages rather than a passive contemplator of the aesthetic or consumer of the spectacular." Tsang graduated with an M. A. in Book Arts from Camberwell. This is a stunning work, showing the artist at work knowing his ethnic roots and traditions, the finished installation in the room (a fold-out) and has a biography at the back. - Hoffberg, Judith edited., "Umbrella", Vol. 27, No. 2-3, August 2004, p.66-67.
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Mr. Jonathan Thomson talks a bit about my work shown in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003 in Asian Art News, Vol. 14, No. 2, March/April 2004. Anyone interested, please take a look! |
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- My book "Interior" would be distributed by the Printed Matter Inc. in the US. So now you can buy it in the US or on Printed Matter's website ! |
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" ... The end wall of the first gallery is hung with a number of sheets of hand-made wallpaper by Tsang Kin Wah, printed in a repeat pattern reminiscent of William Morris but in rather nasty combination of pink, white, pale blue, and violet. Closer inspection reveals that it is not only the color scheme that is nasty. The whole sheet is overprinted with a diatribe of filthy language. It is not always easy to read - the words all run into one another and the lines are broken in an irregular sequence - yet it is clear enough. The enthusiastic repetition of the word fucking - fucking this, fucking that - every three or four words indicates that this is not your normal innocuous wall paper. Tsang's work is in fact among the strongest in the whole show as it addresses very interesting issues in a highly inventive way. He forces us to think about connections between art and language, between beauty, truth, and reality, and the role of the artist as maker of objects in a post-industrial society. His lively invective has the power to shock but it is not offensive - the shock is more akin to a jolt of recognition that this is powerfully expressive and effective art. ..." - Jonathan Thomson, "The Ordinary and the Extraordinary", Asian Art News, Vol. 14, No. 2, March/April 2004. |
Tsang Kin-wah Synopsis: Interiors takes the room sized installation of patterned text that Tsang Kin-wah created at the Camberwell College of Arts London Institute and turns it into a hand held reading experience. Taking inspiration from the floral wallpaper patterns of William Morris, Tsang Kin-wah covered an entire room in hand silk screened swirling, intricately laid out black and white text. The book zooms in on portions of the pattern, revealing it to be made up entirely of strings of obscenities. Shots of the artist at work and of the finished installation are interspersed throughout the book and are accompanied by an essay from the artist entitled "Image Text and Foul Language." Category: Book
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