The present exhibition at He Xiangning Art Museum features Luis Chan's paintings from his later period. Chang Tsong-zung wrote in the introduction, 'In his(Luis Chan's) fantastical landscape paintings of the 1970s and 1980s, humans and animals, ghosts and demons inhabit the same compositional space, which is unmistakably based on the geography of Hong Kong. Many the these later landscape paintings are structured like cross-sectional views of the cosmos: heaven and earth are cut open to reveal the hidden landscape within. This cross-sectional arrangement follows a vertical pattern, moving from heaven above to the worlds below, and each section has its appropriate inhabitants... In the early 1980s, he began to use the splashed-paint method to create large abstract canvases. Comparing these abstract works to his fantastical landscapes, one discovers a basic structural similarity; the wild colours of the abstract works actually constitute a kind of altered imagery of the spirits and demons inhabiting the landscapes. Through a kind of unique process of abstraction, Luis transformed these beings from concrete shapes into intangible forms, and again from intangible forms into dancing colours.'
Access level
Onsite
Location code
MONS.CHL2
Language
Chinese - Traditional, 
English
Keywords
collage,  acrylic painting,  painting,  solo exhibition
Publication/Creation date
2006
No of copies
3
Content type
artist monograph, 
catalogue
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