Chen Xi & Law Yat Sun, Oscar

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Galerie Koo is delighted to announce a joint exhibition by Austrian-Chinese artist Chen Xi and Hong Kong artist Law Yat Sun, Oscar.

Every single line and stroke in Chen Xi’s and Law Yat Sun, Oscar’s drawings are done free-handed; to this day both artists remain true to this fundamental ideal. The series of drawings have a homogeneity in style, while each is in fact unique in itself. Both artists strive to combine the elements of Asian and European art traditions.

Chen Xi has been continuously working on his “perfect-in-form” ink-pen drawing for over a decade—seems as if the shape already existed in the core of the paper and Chen purely helps it to develop. The technique of plume drawing is based on the traditional Chinese art. The abstract forms are drawn with ink pen is made in the tradition of European art history, which radiates perfection and elegance.

About Chen Xi’s paint-brush works, Chen mainly works with paper and mixed media, often entirely in black. Indian ink, acrylic, oil… basically anything that produces this special effect desired by intuition. The paintings are a spontaneous montage of extremely thin and painted paper on canvas, and the robust splashes reveal his energetic and resolute character.

Law Yat Sun, Oscar dedicated himself to focus on charcoal powder drawings since 2011, his commitment in mastering charcoal powder in his paintings is determined and full of passion. He devoted himself to integrate various method and techniques from Chinese and Western art theories, in addition to the use of optical theory, he also takes artistic and medical anatomy and Chinese Face Reading theory as reference to bring his large format portraits to perfection.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Chen XI grew up in Shanghai; in the 90s he moved to Vienna where he still lives and works today. He was educated at the Art Academy of Shanghai, a then and now very privileged institution whose classes accommodated only five students. The main focus of the training was on traditional art techniques such as ink painting and pen drawing, as well as realistic painting. A high degree of precision is required to perfectly master the technique and in order to corresponded to the ideal it demands. The conclusion of his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2005, allowed Chen a deeper engagement with the theory and tradition of abstract art; which later became a major source of inspiration for his extremely detailed abstract works.

Law Yat-Sun, Oscar (b.1972) is a Hong Kong artist. Law showed his affection for arts and at the age of 5 he started his first drawing. Autodidact, Law not only dived into the development of his painting, he was engaged in and has been invited to numerous designs and cultural art related creation projects over the years.
Law is enthusiastic in promoting art among children and has served as the executive director and artistic director of various arts training and children's education programs. He was the director of the Hong Kong Children’s Arts Society, where he devoted himself to develop and engage in children's education research. In between 2017 and 2019, Law was invited to give lectures and demonstrate at teaching forums, universities and teacher training colleges across China.