Description

The second phase of the "Rising Stars of Hong Kong Art Exhibition" will open on November 28 after many months of open recruitment, selection and preparation. Five young Hong Kong artists aged 40 or below have been selected for this exhibition, with a total of 39 works on display. The exhibition of recent works that have not been publicly exhibited will be held from November 29, 2024 to March 30, 2025 at the Jao Tsung-I Cultural Center and is open to the public free of charge. The five rising stars of Hong Kong art have very different backgrounds, but their persistence and enthusiasm for art are equally touching.

The "Rising Stars of Hong Kong Art Exhibition" is an art project sponsored by the Sun Shaowen Foundation and jointly planned by the Jao Tsung-I Cultural Center and the Yi Sun Art Museum. It aims to provide a free exhibition platform for young artists in Hong Kong, hoping to help them grow into elites in the art world. The project adheres to the concept of revitalizing Chinese culture by Professor Jao Tsung-i, a master of traditional Chinese culture, and encourages young artists to recreate the spirit of Chinese art while allowing the public to understand their artistic direction and achievements.

The selection criteria include the creativity and skills of the participants, as well as the elements of Chinese culture and art displayed in the works. The five rising stars of Hong Kong art in this issue are Zhou Xiulan, Chen Zhiwen, Chen Xinan, Liu Xin and Xie Lerou.
Use your spare time to create, and constantly challenge and break yourself artistically.

Chow Xiulan — Accurately captures the essence of characters, super mini portraits

Chow graduated from the Art Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is good at painting in a photorealistic style. In his early years, he used urban landscapes and still life as his themes. In recent years, he has used life and Hong Kong feelings as his themes, and mostly painted genre paintings with people as the main subjects. Figure painting is a difficult problem for many artists, but Zhou challenged the difficulty and created a large number of figure paintings. Inspired by Western portrait miniatures, she began to create mini portraits, using rich colors to paint small characters with distinctive personalities, including neighbors, actors and comedy characters, interpreting the feelings of Hong Kong from an interesting perspective.

Chen Zhiwen - Taking shadow as the theme, integrating trompe l'oeil into ceramics

Chen graduated from the School of Business Administration of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and received a Master of Arts from Seoul National University in South Korea, majoring in ceramic crafts. Chen is good at incorporating trompe l'oeil visual images into ceramic works, creating works from different perspectives. The "Shape Within Shape" series of works on display this time are inspired by shadows. The shadows and the trompe l'oeil effect of three-dimensional graphics bring a fun visual experience to the audience.

Chen Xinan - Use paintings to take you on a journey to Tibet that heals your body and mind

Chan graduated from the Hong Kong Design Institute with a Higher Diploma in Visual Communication Design, and received a bachelor's degree in Moving Image from the Department of Visual Communication at Birmingham City University in the UK. In recent years, in addition to being actively involved in arts inclusion and education, she also provides alternative therapies to people suffering from emotional distress to improve their physical and mental health. Chen is good at watercolor landscape sketches. He uses inconspicuous scenes and fragments of life as inspiration for his creations, and expresses his love for nature with smart brushstrokes and soft colors. The works in this exhibition capture the beautiful pictures of the harmonious coexistence of people, animals, and natural scenery in Tibet, giving people a sense of healing.

Liu Xin - Ordinary fun, the beauty of docks and alleys

Liu graduated from the English Department of Nanjing Hohai University and received a Master of Arts in Translation and Interpretation from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Liu believes that everything can be painted and likes to find beauty and interest in ordinary things. She is good at using the flexible and transparent characteristics of watercolor to capture the urban scenery and natural landscapes seen in her personal life and travels, and explore the tranquility and poetry of daily life. The works in this exhibition are also based on the urban scenery she saw during her travels.

Xie Lerou - hazy light and shadow, beautiful and peaceful city night scene

Tse graduated from the Department of Arts and Psychology of the University of Hong Kong and received a Master of Social Sciences in Counseling. Tse is good at painting urban landscapes with watercolors. His brushwork techniques are varied and he uses light, shadow and color to construct unique pictures and stories. He evokes the memories and emotions of Hong Kong people by painting the night scenes of Hong Kong streets. At a young age, he has developed his own painting style, which is distinctive and eye-catching.

These five artists come from all walks of life. With their passion for art, they use their spare time to continue to create diverse works, showing their outstanding artistic talent and persistence in art. They express different world views through their works, blending Chinese and Western artistic characteristics, interpreting Hong Kong's local culture and art from a new perspective and presenting it to the audience.