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Artist Statement

What are TRUTH and REALITY? Do they exist? Can people perceive or find them out? And how?

Generally, those concepts and ideas accepted and believed by the majority would be considered as “Truth” or “Reality”, but is it really the case or they are just relatively “true” and “real”? We can say that the so-called “Truth” and “Reality” are subjective, temporal and regional.

The appearance of things does not necessarily reflect the inner ‘Truth’. Beautiful things could be either beautiful or ugly inside and the same case also applies to ugly or vulgar objects. The linkage between the surface and the inside, the outer and the inner is rather fragile and is relied on how people perceive or interpret things and whether they would carry out these processes under the existed norms, believes or from different points of view.

The so-called “Art”, for some artists, has its own realm that exists for its own sake and does not or even should not reflect or interact with the things and objects outside. However, as we are living in the world and are surrounded by different things and objects, the ways we think, live and behave are inevitably affected by and linked with the outside world. In fact, we are embedded in a close and inseparable relationship with our surroundings. For me, art is not emancipated from the world but rather reflect or link with it. By posing different kind of questions and thinking about what we are familiar with, what happens around us and the legitimacy of pre-existing things, ideas, believes, etc., showing altered compositions which is different from the existing, and combining and juxtaposing the classic, elegant form with vulgar, secular content, viewer would be lead to rethink about the legitimacy, authority and authenticity of the existing views and ideas from a different angle.

SOLO EXHIBITION
2004 Space – Installation Exhibition by TSANG Kin-wah
(The Room With A View Gallery, Shanghai)
1999 Calligraphy on Fortunes
(Galerie Martini, Hong Kong)

AWARDS
2004 Finalist, The 2004 Sovereign Annual Contemporary Asian Art Prize
(The Sovereign Art Foundation)
2003 Prize of Excellence, Vibrant Hong Kong 2003: Visual Arts Open Competition
(Hong Kong Visual Arts Society)
2002 Selected entry in the competition Mobile Art Gallery
(APO, LCSD, ADC, First Bus, Hong Kong)
2001 Prize of Excellence, Hong Kong Art Biennial 2001
(LSCD, Hong Kong)
2000 Ramon Woon Creative Prize
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
Cheung's Fine Arts Awards
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
1999 Ting Yen Yung Memorial Artistic Achievement Award
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
First Award in Western Painting
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
First Award in Printmaking, Watercolour & Drawing
(Fine Arts Department, CUHK, Hong Kong)
Y. S. Hui Arts Collection Awards
(New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong)
Finalist (Painting Category), Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition
(Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong)
1998 Finalist (Painting Category), Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition
(Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong)

SCHOLARSHIPS
2002-2003 British Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship
(Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom)



TSANG kin-wah

Camberwell College of Arts, the London Institute, London:MA Book Arts

Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: BA (Hons) Fine Arts

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