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吳觀麟．葉立榮 聯展
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去年仲夏，我和旅居柏林的藝術家朋友葉立榮，合作參予了一個在外蒙古舉行，由德國藝術策展人籌辦，名為「首屆地景藝術雙年展：蒙古360°」的地景作品展，我們的作品題材及內容，均和人類、環境、現代生活生態、大自然等息息相關，由個人經歷、自身文化、處境出發，對現世人類週遭的環境破壞和失衡，與及大自然規律反應的種種後果，所作出的反思和討論。
今秋，我很榮幸被香港嶺南大學視覺研究系邀請作駐校藝術家，為此我特地邀請葉立榮再一次合作，製作相討了好一陣子的「移山」裝置藝術展覽。
我和葉立榮是中學同學，可說有着共同的起步點：少年時已酷愛中國藝術哲學，學習中國水墨畫，和對當代藝術充滿好奇。我倆都是同一代的人，香港土生土長，居住環境狹窄，生活在都市齷齪擠逼的小空間內，想像及考慮着中國畫和中國藝術哲學中的審美、自然、空間，與及外面不一樣的世界。我倆分享着共同年代中，個人及集體的回憶，我們的文化背景扎根點似乎是相當一致的。後來葉立榮到芝加哥藝術學院修讀，再移居德國，我則一直留在香港。經過長時間的分隔和各自的經歷、成長，然後意外地重逢。從此之後，在不斷的對話和討論中，互相重新發現各自對藝術、人生、大自然，種種我們不約而同重視的課題的考慮、看法、着眼點，和藝術表達上的異同，繼而發展出合作的可行性。
是次「移山」裝置藝術展覽，是我們相討蘊釀了好些時候的結果。對我倆來說，它有着象徵意義：我們覺得，人的現實不易改變，例如香港肆意填海，帶來對生活環境不可恢復的破壞、全球人類社會的各種災難及困局等；藝術則給予我們在另一層面上一個改變的機會。我們的作品所表達的，面貌和手法可能各異，但在其精神上所，可算是殊途同歸的。
Publication Date
11-2011
Publisher
Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University
City
Hong Kong
Artist Biography
Ng Kwun-lun, Tony (MFA, RMIT), a locally born and raised artist, obtained a Diploma in Chinese ink painting from the former Department of Extramural Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1986. Ng’s works are collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, overseas art institutions and private collectors.
Ng is not limited by his main body of art, Chinese Ink Painting, but excels in his creationof public art projects in 3 dimensional forms. His designs and productions can be seen at the VIP Room of Hong Kong International Airport, Wet-land Park, Hong Kong Health Department, Police Headquarters Building, TST Centenary Memorial Park, Sai Kung Visual Corridor, etc.
Ng has participated in more than 80 local and overseas exhibitions. He was selected in the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennials since 1983 until 1994 and obtained the Urban Council Fine Arts Award (Painting．Chinese Media) in 1994. He was awarded as the 4th-runner-up (Painting) in the Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition in 1986. His other awards includes the “Certificate of Distinction” in a number of Chinese ink painting exhibitions in China between 1989 to 1994. His work recently received Special Award from the Tenth National Exhibition of Arts, China in 2004.
Ng teaches Chinese painting at the Department of extramural studies at different universities,several art and design institutions as course instructor, and occasionally at local secondary schools as invited artist.
Yip, Lap Wing lives and works as an artist in Berlin, Germany.
He was born 1963 in Hong Kong, China. After obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, in 1989, he went to post-graduate school in Germany at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig.
Since then his work has been shown throughout Europe, the United States and in Asia. Among the exhibitions are solo shows in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Gera, Hannover, Göteborg and Shanghai.
Yip, Lap Wing participated in several international sculpture projects and realized arton- site work in public areas among others in Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Pestinok and most recently during the“First Land Art Biennial: Mongolia 360°”in the Gobi Desert.
His awards include:
“Athmosphere”, an art-and-architecture project, awarded and commissioned for the “Kurhaus-Library”in Bad Bevensen, Germany in 1997
“Hugenotten Park”Schwedt, Germany 2001, where Yip received a purchase award during the international sculpture symposium.
First prize, (in cooperation with Thomas Knoth), Outdoor sculpture project for the BUGA 2007. Germany.
Exhibition Period
November 12-27, 2011
Exhibition Venue
Leung Fong Oi Wan Art Gallery, 2/F Main Building, Lingnan University 8 Castle Peak Road Tuen Mun Hong Kong
Keywords
Artist-in-residence, art exhibition
Disciplines
Interdisciplinary Arts and Media | Visual Studies
Recommended Citation
Ng, K. L. T., & Yip, L. W. (2011). Moving mountain = 移山. Hong Kong: Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University.