展覽
入木三分
Woodcut and prints by Hauchun Kwong (Hong Kong) and Uta Zaumseil (Germany)
Goethe-Institut Hongkong presents the exhibition "Cutting in Wood" by Hauchun Kwong (Hong Kong) and Uta Zaumseil (Germany) from June 7 to July 16, 2016 at the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio of the Institut. Featuring more than 40 works by the two artists in the past five years, the exhibition will open on June 7 (Tue) at 7:00pm in the presence of one of the artists Hauchun Kwong.
Two female artists, one from Hong Kong and one from Germany, are connected through their passion for woodcut. For both artists the starting point of their artistic work is the visual experience. However, according to Kwong, her works tend to take up a more poetic approach which she sees as “a dialogue with wood”. Her works cover different kinds of topics, from political statement to sentimental expression to abstract narration, all of which are presented in monochrome and as direct woodcut works. On the other hand, Zaumseil shows a more unstable and at times surreal world in her works, in which she puts things, places and people in new contexts. Her woodcut images are printed on Japanese paper and with up to 30 colours or grey scale.
Born in 1965 in Hong Kong, Hauchun Kwong started her studies in painting and sculpture at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. From 1991 onwards Kwong moved to Munich and further her major studies in sculpture while at the same time teaching calligraphy at the department for Eastern Asian studies at the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität. Kwong currently lives and works in Munich and Hong Kong.
Uta Zaumseil was born in 1962 in Greiz/Germany. In 1990 she worked in the "Kulturfabrik Dorfen" in Bayern. In 1994 she received a grant by the Thuringian Ministry of Culture for Civitella d’Agliano in Italy, followed by a grant by the P.E. Wilke-Foundation for a residency in Bremerhaven. Since 1990 Zaumseil’s works could be seen in numerous exhibitions and art fairs.
Interested in woodcut? Here you could find some information about another exhibition titled “Art for All. The color woodcut in Vienna around 1900” to be held in Frankfurt/Germany starting from June 6, 2016: http://www.schirn.de/m/presse/newsroom/kunst_fuer_alle_der_farbholzschnitt_in_wien_um_1900/ .