THE BLAZING WORLD
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LI Ning 李寧 Stanley SHUM 沈軍翰 11 January – 29 February 2020 Opening: Saturday, 11 January, 2-5 pm Please note our opening hours in February below: Tue -Sat, 11am-4pm (except public holidays) EXIT presents dual exhibition “The Blazing World” by emerging artists LI Ning and Stanley SHUM. The artists create their own world order with scenes taken from daily fragments, the imaginary and the subconscious through prints and oil works respectively. EXIT presents dual exhibition “The Blazing World” by emerging artists LI Ning and Stanley SHUM. The artists create their own world order with scenes taken from daily fragments, the imaginary and the subconscious through prints and oil works respectively. LI Ning’s subject matter is inspired by dreams and daily sceneries, with multiple scenes and characters presented in the same composition. He constructs a bizarre world of unique characters being in a boundless territory without a definite start and end, with multiple actions and narratives happening at the infinite loop of time and space. LI’s working style fuses with his practice and experience as a tattoo practitioner. He applies delicate lines to form positive and negative space structures, adopting the sensibility and techniques of tattooing into his print works. The format of both mediums is remarkably similar: it is a process of pigment insertion and conversion of inked-lines into patterns on to human skins and canvas’ surfaces. His technique is also a form of collaging, instead of using ready-made as his source-material, he applies and combines his own archive of image patterns and materials for his composition. Stanley SHUM’s oil works investigate the mentality of individual and social ideologies of the reality. SHUM explores the psychological portrayals of contemporary society, as well as the nonentity of social power, depicting an imaginary new world of hope with dazzling promises. The artist combines the realistic and metaphorical sceneries by infusing the imaginary scenes, nature landscape and man-made urban landscape on the same compositions. His works exhibit a state of confusion and melancholy, it is also a respond to the current social turbulence and the inevitable human condition of restlessness, depression and hollowness. Related Articles:
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