Art Review
Art Review
The artist I would like to introduce is Tang Ying Mui, Grace. She is currently working as an active female contemporary artist in Hong Kong.
Grace’s main form of art is installation art. Grace is well-known for her continue exploration of the use of thin plastic wrapped wire. She likes working with this material not only because it is low-priced but due to its flexibility. She can mould the wire into different shapes - as if it was a 3-D drawn line stretching from papers into the environment. How are Grace’s artworks related to contemporary art? In the following, I would like to focus on this question.
The use of everyday materials is one of the contemporary art characteristics which is also shown in most of Grace’s artworks. Grace uses materials like wire, packaging tape, textile fur and recycled materials such as soil, leaves in making artworks. They are closely related to daily life and reaching out to the environment. The social environment in Hong Kong also has a great influence on Grace’s art making. In an online article, Grace said “Living in Hong Kong, the city is so crowded and space is so expensive, so I used wire to make works, one reason is I can compress them and store them after exhibition.” (Eliza Goetze, 2013) In Grace’s work Walking man- running east and west (Figure1) and The sixth day (Figure2), we can see that plastic wrapped wire and found objects were used in moulding human figures. In the interview with Grace, she said “I hope the familiarity of the material will make my art more accessible and not intimidate viewers.” “Art can be ordinary” is what I perceive from Grace’s works. Grace doesn’t want to form an illusion that art is superior, instead she believes art should be something that exists in everyday life and the public can get in touch with easily. It reminds me of “Affordable Art Fair” mentioned in class, they both share similar intention which is to make art easier for collection and closer to our daily life. It
The artist I would like to introduce is Tang Ying Mui, Grace. She is currently working as an active female contemporary artist in Hong Kong.
Grace’s main form of art is installation art. Grace is well-known for her continue exploration of the use of thin plastic wrapped wire. She likes working with this material not only because it is low-priced but due to its flexibility. She can mould the wire into different shapes - as if it was a 3-D drawn line stretching from papers into the environment. How are Grace’s artworks related to contemporary art? In the following, I would like to focus on this question.
The use of everyday materials is one of the contemporary art characteristics which is also shown in most of Grace’s artworks. Grace uses materials like wire, packaging tape, textile fur and recycled materials such as soil, leaves in making artworks. They are closely related to daily life and reaching out to the environment. The social environment in Hong Kong also has a great influence on Grace’s art making. In an online article, Grace said “Living in Hong Kong, the city is so crowded and space is so expensive, so I used wire to make works, one reason is I can compress them and store them after exhibition.” (Eliza Goetze, 2013) In Grace’s work Walking man- running east and west (Figure1) and The sixth day (Figure2), we can see that plastic wrapped wire and found objects were used in moulding human figures. In the interview with Grace, she said “I hope the familiarity of the material will make my art more accessible and not intimidate viewers.” “Art can be ordinary” is what I perceive from Grace’s works. Grace doesn’t want to form an illusion that art is superior, instead she believes art should be something that exists in everyday life and the public can get in touch with easily. It reminds me of “Affordable Art Fair” mentioned in class, they both share similar intention which is to make art easier for collection and closer to our daily life. It