KONG Yiu Wing 江耀榮: CRT -> CYM

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KONG Yiu Wing
​CRT -> CYM

5 July - 3 August 2013

A departure from his phantasmal screenprints based on satellite mapping, KONG Yiu Wing's new colour-field paintings on aluminium are a move towards abstraction.

In the digital age, information is increasingly transient and image consumption becomes instant and passive. Whilst "CRT" in the title denotes cathode ray tube in colour monitors and "CYM" refers to cyan, yellow and magenta in digital printing, Kong positions himself as the intermediate mechanism in a perfunctory system of image processing.  

The artist continues to comment on the contemporary way of seeing by employing the minimal components of silkscreen printing. With every blade stroke, a combination of primary-coloured oil paint is squeezed through a stencil-less mesh and is transferred onto the cool surface of an aluminium board. The method of painting is fast and indirect, and the action of the artist resonates a robotic rhythm. However much of the resulting image is left to chance and the unrefined surface retains traces of an human element.

江耀榮
​《CRT -> CYM》 

2013年7月5日至8月3日

江耀榮的新作背離了從前取材自衛星地圖、充滿幻影的絲印，鋁片上的色域繪畫慢慢走向抽象化。

數碼時代，資料日新月異，人們對圖像的吸收缺乏仔細的觀察，只留下浮泛的印象。展覽題目中的CRT 是指熒光幕裡顯示色彩的映像管；CYM指的是列印圖像的三色印刷模式。藝術家以繪畫表達透過熒光幕觀看世界的經驗。  

江氏用紗網印刷的基礎組件延續評論當代觀看及認識世界的獨特方式。每一次刮板的劃動，把紅黃藍的顏料推過網板，塗在平滑的鋁板上。這一種畫法是快速和間接的，而藝術家的行動亦產生機械的節奏。然而留下來的是機遇所產生的圖像，粗略的表面保留著人類的痕跡。