Online Exhibition
“PAINTING OF REVERBERATION”
AN EXHIBITION DUO-LOGY BY CHRISTOPHER KU
DEBUTING THE “REVERBERATION” AND “SEMANTIC CONSTRUCTION” SERIES
DISSOLVING BINARIES THROUGH MATERIAL EXPERIMENTS, PROBING INTO THE UNKNOWN BY ABSTRACTION
Reverberation series 23/ 06 - 15 / 07 / 2022
Semantic Construction series 22/ 07 - 12 / 08 / 2022
“My work is akin to reincarnation; it looks back at everything that has happened without any contention. The specter of post-postmodernism is alive in its death; it floats like a decentralized entity, weightless and free, as it comes to life in the existential consciousness of post-postmodernism. It evokes the “Painting of Reverberation”, which is the theme of this solo exhibition.” – Christopher Ku
Illuminati Fine Art proudly presents one of the most comprehensive retrospective duo-logy “Painting of Reverberations” by a British-based Hong Kong artist, Christopher Ku. This exhibition will debut over 35 seminal works of the artist created from 2002 to the present, representing Ku’s ongoing experiments in material and painting technique while triggering discourses on the dynamics between artistic production, symbolism and narrativity. The exhibition is presented in two chapters: “Reverberation” and “Semantic Construction”. The two series of works to be on view will illustrate the stylistic breakthrough of the prolific artist, capturing the multitude of the artist’s psyche and creations over his decades of practice. As a juxtaposition to Ku’s research on the histories of art and painterly expressions, this exhibition explores the potential, the roles and the contemporaneity of painting.
Artist Biography
Christopher Ku (born 1957, Hong Kong) stayed between Edinburg and London from the 1970s to the 2000s. He graduated from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen then obtained a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art, London. He is currently based in Hong Kong.
Ku’s proficient skills have excelled beyond rationality and symbolism. He seeks to renew the traditional role of painting by focusing on material experiments. He is interested in researching artistic practices of different periods and cultures, for instance, pre-historic cave painting, eastern craft culture and wisdom behind, universal symbols and images, where he also allows spontaneousness in his practice, to apprehend philosophical concepts related to Zen and opportunity.
The textures on the painterly surface are crucial to Ku’s practice, whereas his thoughts, as inspired by the histories of art, are channelled into creative techniques that challenge the painting traditions and extrapolate the potential of artistic production. The interaction between colours and abstract symbols creates a unique visual language for Ku that ponders upon issues related to life and human existence.
His works are widely collected by international institutions, including Royal College of Art, London; Marlow Art Foundation; Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen; Museum 2000 in Germany and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
