Welcoming the spring Opera Gallery is hosting an Asian dual exhibition showcasing
spectacular sci-fi futuristic sculptures by Chinese artist Fan Xiaoyan alongside a series of hyper surrealist virtual animations by Korean artist Kwon Ki Soo.
 
The works of Fan Xiaoyan reflects a new reality, a surrealist virtual world, in which humans and machine are merged into one. Xiaoyan combines soft, warm flesh against cold hard steel to strike up a deep contrast in her work engaging her viewer on a visual and a psychological level. On the other hand, known for his playful Dongguri characters and colorful visual world, Kwon Ki Soo paintings are influenced by classical Korean landscapes, which he transforms to new animated realities intriguing and inviting the viewer to a magical feast to the eyes.

About Fan Xiaoyan

Born in 1983, Fan Xiaoyan graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing where she currently lives and works. Through her sculptures, Fan Xiaoyan portrays a blazing modern woman: free and ambitious, a fighter but still feminine. With her exceptional techniques and choice of glimmering metals, she unveils with acuteness the powerful energies hidden in the light and shapes. Fan Xiaoyan’s work is puzzling and spectacular, shocking and touching, very lively and sensual altogether.
This is her debut showing in Hong Kong following successful solo and group shows in Geneva, Paris, Beijing and New York during the years 2010-2011.

About Kwon Ki Soo

Born in 1972 in Young-Ju, Korea, Kwon Ki Soo completed his MA at Hongik University, Seoul where he now lives and works. Kwon traditional landscapes paintings of Bamboos, chrysanthemums and cherry blossoms have become virtual, colorful and positively charged. His center character named Dongguri, is a black-and-white geometric figure with a cheeky permanent grin that roams across many and varied projects of Kwon Ki Soo and has become his repetitive artistic icon. Dongguri symbolic smiley face is said to be inspired by the Buddha, where the simple smile indicates that everything is going to be all right. A smile of silence that is also one of compassionate understanding. By using what he knows best of the traditional themes with contemporary sentiments Kwon created a New Wave of Korean Pop Art.
His work has been successfully exhibited around the world which were included in ‘Fiction @ Love’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, in 2006; ‘The Elegance of Silence’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, in 2005; and the 'Busan Biennale 2006', Korea.