Project:

Inside looking Out - Art and Life

about the project

We are looking for partnership to realize this project (with different bodies of works) outside Hong Kong, interest party may email:

inf@lamtungpang.com

Press Release

Attention Arts and Features Editors

30 March 2007

Inside Looking Out

A new exhibition called Inside looking Out at Osage Kwun Tong features the work of six young contemporary Hong Kong artists and asks the question “Is there a “Fotan School” of Hong Kong?”

This exhibition continues Osage’s commitment to the presentation of work by younger emerging artists and to the extension of critical discourse in Hong Kong.

The establishment by young Hong Kong artists of studios in the old flatted factories at Chai Wan, Kwun Tong and in particular at Fotan, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, is one of the most interesting developments in recent contemporary Hong Kong art. For Hong Kong, this is the closest we come to the Western notion of the aesthete or bohemian artist working for arts sake in his garret. But the artist in his studio also has links to the traditions of the Chinese literati artist-scholar.

The exhibition Inside Looking Out comprises work by six artists from studio Mr 221 and studio 615 at Fotan and presents an opportunity to explore whether there is any solid theoretical and methodological basis for an examination of the construct that may come to be called the “Fotan School”. As the artworld becomes more and more fragmented the identification of artists as a member of a particular group or “school” is for many the only way of lending structure to a highly fluid range of contemporary art movements.

The artists in the exhibition are Ma Chi-hang (Film/Media Arts), Kwan Sheung-chi (Multi-disciplinary Arts), Lee Kit (Painting Installation), Chow Chun-fai (Painting), Pak Sheung-chuen (Conceptual Art) and Lam Tung-pang (Painting / Mixed-media).

The exhibition will open on Friday 13 April 2007 with all of the artists in attendance and will continue until 28 May 2007.

The Osage group of galleries was established in 2004 with exhibition spaces in Hong Kong Soho, Beijing and Singapore. Osage Kwun Tong is the newest gallery in the Osage group. It is a spectacular 15,000 square foot warehouse-style space that gives Hong Kong a much-needed contemporary art venue and gives contemporary art the space it needs.

For additional information please contact Ms. Natalie Chan on 2793 4817.