2 X AMARONAP  
WONG YANKWAI & SUZY CHEUNG  

Wong Yan Kwai
 

Suzy Cheung
 
 
 
 
   
OPENING RECEPTION
12 APRIL 2013, 6 - 9 PM
WITH A SPECIAL DANCE AND MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY VICTOR MA AND MANDY YIM & NELSON HIU AND FRIENDS
   
   
EXHIBITION DURATION
12 APR - 12 MAY, 2013
 
   
EXHIBITION ADDRESS
SIN SIN FINE ART
52 - 54 SAI STREET,
CENTRAL, HONG KONG
 
 
Asian Art
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What happens when two artists who are married to each other work to create art together? The seeds  for  this  duet exhibition  of  painter Wong Yankwai  and  ceramist  Suzy Cheung  were  first planted in 1992, when Yankwai painted the surface of a ceramic vessel that Suzy created. It was quite a dierent experience for Yankwai to paint using ceramic glazes as the colors wouldn’t be as readily visible as say, acrylic paints that he is accustomed to. The resulting piece is a perfectly balanced marriage of form, lines and colors. They complement each other, inside and out; the open, uneven rim of the vessel shaped by Suzy’s hands echoes the warmth of Yankwai’s expressive brush strokes.


 


This led to a plan for more collaborative works, which took a while to actually materialize. They were waiting for the right time, and now, the time has finally arrived. In “2 x Amaronap”, fresh collaborative  works by Suzy and Yankwai will be made available to the public for the first time. Suzy will also be showing her functional vessels and sculptural pieces. Some of the works involve multiple  firings, with underglaze and overglaze techniques. There will also be a group of works featuring “sketching with clay” and inlays on porcelain. These works illustrate Suzy’s deft handling of the  clay to transform the medium into an extension of her vision, without betraying the true nature of the clay itself.


 


Yankwai will be showing some of his recent acrylic on canvas paintings.  Colour is his primary material; it makes up the structure, form and movement of his work. Bright and strong, his colours overlap, contrast, beckon and push against each other producing a strong musical resonance that keeps them in constant movement. His work is constant creation and destruction in motion. These highly  charged  paintings  leave  a  strong  impression  on  the  viewer.  One  can  sometimes  see  a familiar object among the many forms that make up his work, such as an airplane or fish, but they have been partially altered, losing their shape, identity and nature. The painter has recreated them by making them into simple “colour-objects” with which he plays liberally on the canvas (From an essay written by Gιrard Henry, Amaronap, 2007).