by Elsa Art Gallery Location: Elsa Art Gallery
Artist(s): HUANG Kuen Po
Date: 20 Aug - 12 Sep 2010
For the artist, still life painting brings an aesthetic experience transcends time and reveals certain common experiences of modern people – void, lonely, and the anxiety to free from the condition. In Huang’s still life painting, there is no strong colour contrast or unnecessary ornament, but a simply scenery under nature light; through the process of viewing to reflect a way of living and the essence of life, a realization of a ever-changing world. Under the trend of contemporary art being the dominated style in today’s art scene, it takes some courage for an artist to continue taking classical realism as his main technique. By depicting and representing the visible world, Huang Kuen-Po constructs his own style – subtle, graceful, gentle, with aura of metaphysics and Zen aesthetics, by which to bring viewers an enjoyable insight.