Monday, July 29, 2013

First Smash - Media Report and Interview

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http://delta.amcnn.com/node/1904

By Milk 627
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By South China Morning Post (Jul/30/2013)

Art Experience Gallery teaches young artists some well-needed skills

Survival skills for the young
Tuesday, 30 July, 2013 [Updated: 9:07AM]


As a young artist, Iris Tsang See-wan knows how hard it is to show her work in Hong Kong. Despite a booming visual arts scene, with big international galleries setting up shop in the city, Tsang thinks the local scene has become too commercialised, the pressure to make a profit leaving little space for young experimental artists to develop the necessary skills to succeed.
"Being an artist is a whole package; making the artwork is just one part of it. How do you get the skills an artist needs if you don't get the chance to learn?"
To open up the playing field, the Art Experience Gallery in Tsuen Wan invited young artists to apply for its "First Smash" Art Project Group Show, which runs until August 31.
The gallery asked graduates to apply online for a chance to be exhibited. Six artists were chosen from 30 candidates.
"Our selection was based on the artist's concept, and how they elaborated on it," says gallery director Jacky Yeung Ka-fai.
Since it opened in 2010, the gallery has focused on promoting artists from the region. But only local artists have the chance to display their work for the latest project. There is "an obvious imbalance between the number of galleries and art-related institutions and the number of young artists graduating every year", Yeung says.
The "First Smash" show was inspired by Andrzej Sobiepan,
a Polish art student who caught widespread attention when he secretly hung one of his paintings in the National Museum in the city of Wroclaw.
Sobiepan's actions sparked a sense of responsibility in Yeung.
"As a gallery, we have a responsibility to do as much as possible to develop the art industry in Hong Kong. Part of that process is to promote more young artists."
Tsang, a 23-year-old fine arts graduate from Chinese University, says she chose art as a medium "to tell people a story".
Hong Kong Art School graduate Dan Ann Hin-ka made a traditional Chinese suit out of measuring tape in an attempt to illustrate the distance between people, and grasp the nature of relationships.
The 32-year-old artist says "First Smash" changed her negative view of galleries in Hong Kong, and hopes there will be more events like it. "This gallery is passionate about helping the Hong Kong arts community understand developments in [contemporary art]," Ann says. "This exhibition gives the artist some respect."


Source and credit from SMCP : http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1292785/art-experience-gallery-teaches-young-artists-some-well-needed

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Osage KT Market 2012

 

BOING!, a Weekend Pop-up Night Market is featured in today's Sing Tao Daily, p.E1.

Don't forget to mark the following weekends in your diary: 27-28 July, 3-4 August & 10-11 August.

Source fr Osage Facebook https://www.facebook.com/osagegallery?hc_location=timeline

 I was join last year's Osage KT Weekend Market, below are the report from Sing Tao Daily about the event.

Monday, July 8, 2013

中文版履歷表

因應需要, 中文版履歷表已經準備好, 請按此:-

http://anndanhinka.blogspot.hk/p/biography.html

謝謝支持.


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前天, 跟一位在畫廊工作的朋友聊天, 她說, 現在的ART FAIR 都是外國人的聚集, 而近期的情況是, 他們在說國語.

昨天, 跟一間很好的畫廊討論展覽的細節, 他們真的很有心去幫助香港藝術家, 真的很好, 容後再述. 有趣的是, 他們也要求提供中文版及英文版CV各一份, 於是, 我做好了中文版CV.

感覺離自己又遠了, 也近了.