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Howie Tsui The Cradle Rocks Above an Abyss

Art and AsiaPacific, 2024-05 (138), p.92-92

Copyright ArtAsiaPacific May/Jun 2024 ;ISSN: 1039-3625

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  • Title:
    Howie Tsui The Cradle Rocks Above an Abyss
  • Author: Yiu, Alex
  • Subjects: Martial arts ; Mixed media
  • Is Part Of: Art and AsiaPacific, 2024-05 (138), p.92-92
  • Description: Hanart TZ Gallery For his first solo exhibition in the city of his birth, CanadianHong Kong artist Howie Tsui presented a new series of mixed-media works featuring surreal characters and absurdist scenes, in large part inspired by his nostalgia for mid-20th century Chinese novelists and late-2Oth century screen and television writers working primarily within the wuxia (martial arts) genre. In Tsui's large painting The Banquet (2023) a plethora of grotesque characters-baton-holding security guards with heads resembling mahjong tiles, a blindfolded woman playing the Chinese zither, agongshi (Chinese decorative rocks in irregular shapes) in the form of an emperor, and a squatting spectator with the wings of a bat-appear as sci-fi-inspired reimaginations of the wellknown Duke of Mount Deer (1984), a wuxia fiction adapted for Hong Kong television station TVB. Tsui further expanded the series to reference similarly iconic TVB scenes in paintings such as Lucky Abductions, An Umbral Abduction (pyromancers), and Radial Palms (all 2023). [...]in Avatars of Entombment (Incisive) and Avatars of Entombment (Copper Tone) (2023), Tsui returned to his use of highly saturated pigments and inks to depict a similar subject matter, though this time with a gentler touch. Standing at a distance, viewers (via a hidden mini-xylophone) trigger excerpts from the American Minimalist composer Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood (1973).
  • Publisher: New York: ArtAsiaPacific
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1039-3625
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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