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The exhibition consists of two parts, encompassing the artist’s journey through his ‘maximalist’ to ‘minimalist’ periods. One is characterized by Wong’s dense polychrome brushstrokes, while the other highlights his monochrome works that are rich in texture. The artist embraced an unconventional multi-perspective composition in the painting “Kew Garden” (2019), which was inspired by his visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens, when he was a student in Britain in his early years. With the expressive staggered lines and the warm colours used to depict the texture of light, this painting creates an atmosphere of tranquillity and mystery that emphasizes one’s inner emotions and lyricism., The visual impact and mood in the paintings invite viewers to plunge into the experience of Wong’s life journey and travels.

Wong has projected his apprehension of the four seasons through the senses onto the canvas of the “Fontainebleau” (2018) series and the work “Autumn” (2018) by intertwining multi-layered monochrome paints with repetitive lines and brushstrokes, thereby establishes a symphonic conversation between the paintings and the gallery space. Such a unique style pervades in Wong’s new series of paintings, which also embodies the artist’s resistance against a conventional way of interpreting his art. This resistance demonstrates Wong’s critical view on aesthetics and artistic creations.

Wong often reduces the concrete forms of his subjects into simple lines. The representative works of this period are wild like graffiti but also carry a mysterious atmosphere, creating a gentle yet rhythmic dynamic. An immense and vast universe lies behind the ambiguous boundary, transcending all kinds of rational thinking and sensual perceiving. The lines that seem to be repetitive depict his own deconstruction of the subconsciousness with his dynamic brushstroke, while the linear scrawls indicate a lyrical comprehension.

Works featured in this exhibition have been decomposed by a computer and their colour schemes have been reduced from a polychrome to monochrome labelled with RGB colour codes, allowing the audience to interpret the works with both emotional and rational perspectives.

Wong Sau Ching’s artistic expressions, in a word, indicates his deconstruction of consciousness. The ‘consciousness’ has been repressed to serve only the intuition. In the process of human behaviour, at the lowest point of human consciousness, the two acts of painting and expression converge. This point of convergence is precisely the highest point of human intuition.

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Works by Wong have been exhibited globally, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong SAR and Malaysia. He was invited to attend to the World Art Exhibition by the Cultural Ministry of Paris, France in 2000. Painting “Life in Hong Kong” had been received the highest award in Third China National Exhibition of Oil Paintings held in Beijing in 2003. Wong is now the Vice Chairman and Director of Hong Kong International Artists Association, Chairman of the Board of Hong Kong Fringe Club and Chairman of the China section of Res Artist, International Association of Residential Arts Centres.