CAIS Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Kyoung Tack HONG, one of the representatives of Korean contemporary art in painting. Known for a series of Pens and Library, with a full of flamboyant and vivid color spectrum on canvas, Kyoung Tack HONG has been a major featured artist of CAIS Gallery since early 2000's. Especially, setting the highest auction record as a Korean artist at the Christie's Hong Kong Sale in 2007, with a ten times higher price than the estimated one, he has gained much attention as one of the most promising blue chip artists of Asia. In this solo exhibition 2012, the First solo exhibition in Hong Kong after finishing his Doosan residency program in New York, he will present his new paintings of Pens series and paintings and a video work of Funkchestra series. In addition, he will participate in ART HK 12 (5.17-20, 2012) with CAIS Gallery to present a 5m80cm-wide work of ”Pens" (2012).

Kyoung Tack Hong creates explosive power and visual amusement through a formative restructure of patterns meticulously collected and densely accumulated objects on the canvas. The standardized objects which are assembled in each different form transform into new characters, allowing these pictorial modeling methods to offer a channel of communication with audiences through simple and straightforward rendering techniques in the notion of amusement. The diverse iconographies such as skeletons, dolls, flowers, pens, and books which are depicted in his painting form a distinctive allegory. Cheerful but serious, rhythmical but static, these conflicting meanings in his paintings convey various attributes of life and death, religion and secularization and leave a room for other possible interpretation of his works. Furthermore, the exhibition will bring the audience a chance to open up a window of communication and sensation.