Month: April 2024

Ling Pui Sze 凌佩詩

Published by Jessica Wan

Much like gazing at the night sky during the new moon in minimal light, Ling Pui Sze’s works capture ever-evolving textures and organic forms, evoking a sense of tranquility and boundlessness. Inspired by her personal medical experiences and a deep connection to nature, Ling employs experimental ink techniques and collages to create videos, sculptural installations and works on paper. Her intuitive approach to arranging collected images of nature transfigures creatures and landscapes into abstract representations that recall both the familiar and distant. Ling embraces and reconstructs the incidental organic through an iterative process, reflecting on the interconnectedness of various life forms. To further explore the interplay between biological traits and the evolution of human society, Ling has participated in several artist residencies, including ones supported by Haohaus in Taiwan in 2015 and Listhus Artspace in Iceland in 2018. From July to December 2023, she undertook an artist-in-residence programme at Robinson College, part of Cambridge University, with Artecal Foundation. Her latest work, White Mirror 2, is on view until 9 March at the group exhibition Living …

Szelit Cheung 張施烈

Published by Caroline Ha Thuc

Szelit Cheung’s paintings offer viewers open spaces in which to wander, escape or retreat. Neither abstract nor realistic, they feature imaginative architectural settings that are at the same time familiar and unknown. Fascinated by the concept of the void, the Hong Kong artist builds structural and poetic landscapes that attempt to embody the texture and complexity of emptiness expressed through a rich range of colours and contrasts. With no foreground or tangible objects to hold onto, the gaze plunges immediately into a geometrical world of light and shadows where time appears suspended. Light radiates and exceeds frames, including the canvas itself, while the void tends to echo the projection of our own selves. Caroline Ha Thuc: Do you remember why you originally wanted to be an artist? Szelit Cheung: I love the process of making art; it is as simple as that. The only thing I can remember from childhood was drawing with a pencil for hours until the sun went down. There was nothing that made me happier than painting and drawing. Then, in …

Minsoo Sohn 孫旻秀

Published by Artomity Magazine

Concert Hall, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts /Hong Kong /Mar 15, 2024 /Ernest Wan / In 2022, South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim shot to stardom when he became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 18. His success has understandably called increased attention to his teacher Minsoo Sohn, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival invited the latter to make his local debut in both concerto and solo performances. His programmes included Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto and Liszt’s Études d’exécution transcendante, which Lim performed in the Cliburn final and semi-final respectively. Sohn’s Liszt recital was doubly interesting in that the Études figured prominently in the career of his own teacher, Russell Sherman, who died in September 2023. The 47-year-old Sohn began his recital with Liszt’s Consolations, or Six pensées poétiques, intimate pieces that are mostly slow and soft. His playing of the initial chords of the first piece, more deliberate and meditative than usual, right away characterised his rendition of the entire set – these are serious, even pious …