Oil Street Artist Village used to be one of the most beautiful lands in development of local contemporary art.
The old Oil Street becomes a luxury site which costs billion dollars nowadays, whereas the “ex-villagers” have been migrated to Cheung Sha Wan afterward and finally settled in To Kwa Wan. They put a great effort to rehabilitate their homeland and finally the new “Cattle Depot Artist Village” was formed. Chan Kwong Wah, one of the artist heritages from the old Oil Street, has been witnessing the change of the Artist village. Long time passing, most of his Oil Street friends leaved the village and pursues their own dreams. Despite of this, they all have been growing up during these ten years.
This exhibition is composed of 2 main parts: The former part is a brief review of Chan’s journey of art in previous ten years. Some outstanding artworks would be shown, such as the “Moral Return” Series reflex the weakness of the moral values today, through various kinds of stiff mediums and techniques; The “City Illusion” would like to cram the delusive and repeated images, which are converted from the actual photo, to viewers’ mind, thus people would get lost from the world in kaleidoscope; And the “Sea Wave” represents the changing landscape through a minimal video installation. Besides, the other part of this exhibition would be showing the new painting series of Chan Kwong Wah. It represents the fascination as well as captivation from our city and the Nature, and reveal many fine and little thoughts in his life.
Guide tour, open studio and forum would also be held during the exhibition period. The forum, emceed by Lam Hiu Tung, will invite the Former Oil Street Artists, including Pauline lam, Yuen Kwok Chung, Rupert Wong, Wong Chi Fai, To Wun and Lai Tak Wai, to share experience toward their lives and make a summary for the past decade.
10 Years Sharpen Sword - from Oil Street to Cattle Depot - Works by Chan Kwong Wah
Period: 24/9- 6/10/2011
Time: Tuesday to Sunday 12:00-8:00pm (Closed on Mondays)
Venue: Artist Commune, Unit 12 Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, Kowloon.
Opening: 24th September, 2011 (Saturday), 6:00pm
Curated by: Chan Kwong Wah
Partnership: Art Products Promotion (APP)
Venue Partner: Artist Commune
Associated activities would also been held during exhibition period:
a. Forum : Topic: From Oil street to Cattle depot---Art space and sustainable Art activities.
Host: Lam Hiu Tung
Guest Speakers: the Former Oil Street Artists, Pauline lam, Yuen Kwok Chung, Rupert Wong, Wong Chi Fai, To Wun and Lai Tak Wai.
Date: 24th September, 2011 (Saturday), 6:30 pm to 8:00pm
b. Guide tour and open studio
25th September 2011 (Sunday), 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, and
2nd October 2011 (Sunday), 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
*Welcome the school organization for reservation of guide tour*
