Sin Sin Fine Art is going to present the solo exhibition of Hong Kong artist, Fung Ming Chip. This exhibition will showcase Fung’s innovative seal-carving works and his extra-ordinary New Script. 

Fung Ming Chip was born in Guandong, China in 1951. He moved to Hong Kong in 1956 and to New York in 1977. While living in New York, Fung was inspired by Western painting styles such as abstraction, which embraced Fung’s traditional artistic concepts and presentation methods.

Fung began his life-long engagement with Chinese written words through seal-carving. Fung’s seal-carving works are not simply an enlarged form of seal but rather a transformation of seal from a secondary crafted work to an independent art form. The initially intaglios become red lines in relief where the white space, based on the Western oil painting concept of colour and shading, is carved into texture so as to give a sense of fullness. What we see is more than the characters themselves but a unity of visual art form.

From seal-carving, Fung moved on to Chinese Calligraphy. His New Script plays around the different time dimensions of Chinese Calligraphy. When writing, based on the requirements of different writing techniques and sequences, he would write with water first then ink; or write with ink then add water; or use the different ink-drying speed on the Chinese rice (Xuan) paper to create different effects.  With his exquisite and sensitive mindset, Fung has created over hundreds different effects of Chinese Calligraphy. Fung has been appraised by critics from both the West and East.

“Fung Ming Chip is an explorer. His writing is constantly seeking to open up and to validate new approaches to the meaning of the ideograph.” Robert C. Morgan

“A sensitive, thoughtful artist, Fung, with concentrated interest and intensive practice has attempted to create his own distinctive style and establish his own theories.” Wang Fangyu

Since 1986, he has been travelling around New York, Hong Kong and China. His works are included in major private collections and public institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard-Sackler Museum and Princeton University Art Museum.