1a space is greatly honored to present Danny Yung in our Hong Kong Masters Series to recognize his significant contribution to the arts development in Hong Kong and international cultural exchange.

Danny Yung manipulated a historic photograph taken in 1962, featuring Mao surrounded by China’s top leaders. By swapping and duplicating their heads, e.g. from center to the side, Yung both seemingly changed the power structures and as well as the historical discourse. This is the original idea of "In Search of New China."

Yung's first attempt was in 1992, a series of six Photoshop work was published as supplement to Photo Arts Monthly of Hong Kong. That particular issue was subsequently banned in China. In 2001, Yung experiment the series further into six painting stretched on canvas, the work was chosen by Hong Kong Arts Biennial. In 2002 Yung produced a video work and used in his theater work. All through the years, Yung explored three generations of "In Search of New China" in different presentations.

In the year of celebration of 90th birth of Chinese Communist Party, the Photoshop technology has also grown much more sophisticated. At this timely moment Yung would like to further develop the concept of this work, continue his experimental exercise in manipulating the images, which is to be the fourth generation of his “In Search of New China”.