All posts tagged: Tsang Kin-Wah

Tsang Kin-Wah 曾建華

Published by Caroline Ha Thuc

T REE O GO D EVIL /gdm /Hong Kong /Mar 19 – May 24, 2025 / Tsang Kin-Wah’s latest solo exhibition, T REE O GO D EVIL, is conceived as a total installation – an immersive visual and auditory environment that blends the artist’s characteristic use of textual quotations with edited video excerpts, including films or online clips depicting scenes of violence. The work revisits the artist’s enduring thematic concerns, drawing inspiration from the Bible, prophetic imagery of the apocalypse and current events to interrogate the contemporary meaning of moral values such as good and evil, the human capacity for judgement and humanity’s place within what Tsang frequently describes as an illusory world. Visitors enter the gallery through a narrow corridor, crossing metal grilles almost imperceptibly before arriving in the main exhibition space. At its centre stands a large pillar, a massive tree whose trunk is covered in letters and phrases. Its branches extend across the ceiling, made of coiled and uncoiled text, as well as suspended words and letters. While the formal language is …

Asia Art Archive 2024 Annual Fundraiser

Published by Artomity Magazine

aaa2024auction.com Asia Art Archive (AAA)’s 2024 Annual Fundraiser features an auction of over 50 works generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. This year’s fundraiser supports a crucial milestone for the organisation: building a premier digital archiving facility and training future archivists. These initiatives enable Asia Art Archive to provide free public access to resources on the histories of contemporary art in Asia. The works are now available for bidding online at www.aaa2024auction.com until 1 November, 10:30pm. This year’s auction features work by artists including Ruth Asawa, Rosamond Brown, Luis Chan, Chan Ting, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Naiza Khan, Leung Chi Wo, Qiu Anxiong, Ayesha Sultana, Tsang Kin-Wah, Wang Wei, and more. Asia Art Archive enables free and open access to materials on the history of contemporary art in Asia through digitisation. As of today, AAA’s Research Collections contain more than 83,000 digital records. The fundraiser provides a vital source of funding to support AAA’s infrastructure in digitisation and advocacy for accessibility and custodianship. The establishment of a Digitisation Lab will advance AAA’s archival standards and nurture the …

Amna Naqvi

Published by Artomity Magazine

Supporter of the arts, collector and philanthropist Amna Naqvi talks about two commissioned pieces in her collection. Untitled is an installation that was commissioned from the Hong Kong-based artist Tsang Kin-Wah in 2012. Both my husband Ali and I’d been noticing Kin-Wah’s work in Hong Kong for some time. For me the appeal lay in his use of text as a leitmotif. We were on an Asia Art Archive Collectors Circle trip to Seoul in 2011 and it proved to be the turning point for this acquisition. We visited Leeum museum in Seoul, came upon Kin-Wah’s text on the glass cladding of the museum, and I was mesmerised by the sheer scale of the installation. We both decided that a commissioned work would be best as we would prefer the possibility of an installation rather than a painting. We invited Kin-Wah home for a discussion with Jehan Chu, who helped us with the commission. We came up with the idea of a folding blue and white chinoiserie-inspired screen which would be manifested as a single work of art but with the …