Hilarie HON: BLOOMY GLOOMY BOOM 韓幸霖《燦爛的憂鬱的燦爛》

Hilarie HON: BLOOMY GLOOMY BOOM
 
18 February - 15 March 2017

Gallery EXIT is pleased to announce "BLOOMY GLOOMY BOOM", a solo exhibition of new works by Hilarie HON. The exhibition will open on 18 February 2017 and remain on view through 15 March 2017. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, 18 February from 4 to 6 pm.
 
Hon's highly personal painting style employs bold colours and strong contrasts to express an inner world full of comical conflict and struggle. In her paintings, we encounter strange figures wearing party hats and blowing party blowers, ghostly spirits floating through fluorescent forests as well as smiling houses and flower pots.
 
The dreamlike atmosphere is heightened by Hon's distinctive palette. Many of her paintings feature large patches of unbroken red, orange or magenta. The intensity of these colours is further increased by letting them stand out against a black backdrop or contrasting them with complementary shades of green or turquoise.
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Immersed in an unreal neon glow, Hon's sceneries evoke the alienation and helplessness we sometimes feel in nightmares. But her world is not entirely bleak: In almost all of her paintings, we encounter highly stylised smiling faces, suggestive of a humour that offsets the melancholy hiding beneath all things.

韓幸霖:《燦爛的憂鬱的燦爛》
 
2017年2月18日至3月15日
 
安全口畫廊呈獻韓幸霖最新個展《燦爛的憂鬱的燦爛》，展覽於2017年2月18日至3月15日開放，開幕酒會在2月18日（星期六）下午4時至6時舉行。
 
韓氏的作品色彩鮮艷而分明，呈現強烈的個人風格，並藉此表達充滿矛盾和掙扎的內心世界。畫中不時出現頭戴派對帽、吹著派對玩具的怪異人物，浮游在螢光森林的鬼魅，還有微笑著的屋子和花盆。
 
獨特的用色風格，加深了夢魘般的神秘氣氛。不少作品均採用厚實的紅、橙、紫紅，在漆黑的背景或藍綠對比色調的襯托下更顯強烈。
韓氏所描繪的場景，沉浸在異於尋常的螢光色塊中，瀰漫噩夢般的孤獨與無助感。然而，她的世界並非徹底荒涼：她為大部分作品添上非寫實的微笑圖像，以黑色幽默抵消憂傷。

About the Artist

Hilarie HON (b. 1994, Hong Kong), graduated with a BA Visual Arts (Hons) at Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016. HON’s highly personal painting style employs bold colours and strong contrasts to express an inner world full of comical conflict and struggle, with sceneries evoke the alienation and helplessness felt in nightmares. Participated exhibitions include solo exhibition “The Daily Disappearance of the Sun” (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2018). Group exhibition “Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves with” (MOCA Taipei, Taiwan, 2019) and “9x9” (1a space, Hong Kong, 2017). HON currently lives and works in Hong Kong.