Contemporay artists by Siu Cheuk Lam (Charlotte)

1.Robert Adams
(born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. In 2009, he received the Hasselblad Award for his achievements in photography.^[1] He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.










2.Robert Combas

a French painter and sculptor, born in 1957 in Sète in the south of France and now living and working in Paris.

He is widely recognized as a progenitor of the figuration libre movement that began in Paris around 1980 as a reaction to the art establishment in general and minimalism and conceptual art in particular.

Combas’ own work has always been strongly rooted in depictions of the human figure. The figures are often in wild, violent or orgiastic settings. Usually on large, often unstretched canvases, Combas crowds his flat pictorial space with a teeming proliferation of bodies, street poetry and designs reminiscent of the compulsive patterning in much folk and outsider art. He creates hectic narratives of war, crime, sex, celebration and transgression—in short, every phase that makes up the constant flux of modern life. In recent years a strong autobiographical strain has been evident in his work, which was present only on a subliminal level, if at all, in the earlier work..

While Combas’ works often seem to carry an element of shock or confrontation, he insists the images are meant to engage the viewer, and their execution in vibrant color and bold, unfettered line communicate a spirit of proletarian camaraderie that offsets the tendency to overwhelm, in the larger works especially.

In a biographical note on Robert Combas’ official website the artist asserts his aim is to

“provoke, that is, to trigger a reaction in the spectator only to ‘invite’ him, beckoning him in and whispering in his ear ‘come over and talk to me, I want to tell you about the stupidity, violence, beauty, love, hatred, seriousness and fun, the logic and senselessness that pervade our day-to-day lives’ ”.

3.Dorophy Tang

Dorophy Tang, a product designer and an illustrator, who was born and is based in Hong Kong. She finished her Diploma in Design Studies and her Bachelor (Hons) of Design in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is very enthusiastic with Traditional Chinese Art and Design. Her previous works include 1000% bearbrick Insane ABS for Angel’s Smile Foundation’s Charity Auction, QingHuaCi guitar for well-known Hong Kong City Magazine. Shopping B.B serial illustrations that interpret the situation of Nowadays young people’s attitude towards trend culture ironically. She “re-designed” a Lomography camera, Diana f+ with her signature Qinghua style, for The Detrich Collection & Diana Vignettes Exhibition. In 2008, Dorophy hold her individual exhibition with Adidas, which is named “Kicks Discovery around Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei. Dorophy organized a Christmas Art Charity campaign(named “Sanlitun Village PeekaPoo Shopping Baby Angel Charity Art Exhibition” in the Beijing famous shopping district. Dorophy painted 10 shopping baby angels and allow people to treasure hunt them in the shopping district.

Artists by Lee Pak To(pakto)

Conceptual artist-

Jake and Dinos Chapman

Jake Chapman was born in Cheltenham and Dinos Chapman in London.Jake and Dinos Chapman make iconoclastic sculpture, prints and installations that examine, with searing wit and energy, contemporary politics, religion and morality.

balancing act-Eskil Ronningsbakken

his is the latest jaw-dropping trick from extreme artist Eskil Ronningsbakken, who enjoys nothing more than precariously perching on the edge of a clifftop or walking on a tightrope between two hot-air balloons.

The 29-year-old with a head for heights describes

himself as an 'educated balancing performer', and has been honing his death-defying skills since the age of five, with circus troupes around the globe.

Hector de Gregoria

I am interested in seducing the viewer. I try to create a visual lure to keep the viewer entertained. Once this has happened I can introduce a character, suggest a story.

I am interested in European Art and how the idea of ecstasy is produced in many styles: sensuality (Lippi), realism (Caravaggio), the macabre (Bosch) and the metaphysical (Dalí).

A left-field flavour, elaborate stage props, powerful imagery that confronts the viewer, that looks you direct in the eye and dares you to look back.

Nothing is sacred, religious under/overtones, the hint of deliciously dark things beyond mere fetish – delicious, modern portraiture.

contemp artists by HOPE.

Quist

Quist is a young local photographer who has her own studio called Hidden Culture Ltd. Most of her works are portraits and all of them are famous of their high colour contrast. Please refer to the newspaper article for more details. The photos below are from her book "Lady Luminance".

HP: www.quistography.com

岩井俊二 Iwai Shunji

Iwai is a Japanese film director/video artist, writer and documentarian. In 1995 he went on to start his career in feature films, starting with the box-office hit Love Letter. Iwai collaborated with cinematographer Noboru Shinoda to produce a film praised for its evocative winter cinematography. Love Letter made an impact in other east Asian countries too, notably South Korea where the film's success helped break down the post-World War II barriers to Japanese films being shown there.

In 1996 came the commercial and critical success of Swallowtail Butterfly, a multifaceted story of the fictional Yen Town, a city of immigrants in search of hope and a better life with three separate and distinct main characters.

In 1998, Fine Line Features released Love Letter in the US theatrically under the new title When I Close My Eyes ; it was the first Iwai-directed film to be released in the US theatrically.

Iwai enjoyed another kind of success with this film as well, having teamed up with Takeshi Kobayashi to create the music for the film and the Yen Town Band. The band they created became a commercial hit in Japan. He would team up with Kobayashi again in 2001 for the harrowing High School Drama All About Lily Chou-Chou. Kobayashi would create the music for the titular pop star, Lily Chou-Chou (voiced by Japanese singer Salyu), that is spread through the film (as well as Debussy), and later be released as an album entitled Kokyu (Breathe).

film poster of Love Letter

film poster of "Swallowtail Butterfly"

film poster of "Picnic"

film poster of "Hana and Alice"

film poster of "All About Lily Chou-chou"

Damien Steven Hirst

Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and the symbol of Britart worldwide.

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

Beautiful Revolving Sphincter

The Explosion

For the Love of God

Three artists research by Stella

(1)Damien Hirst

Postminimalism

(movement, 1965 - 1975)Postminimalism,

in the narrow sense, means the art by the generation next to minimalist artists, such as Eva Hesse and Richard Serra, who were representative artists at that time, and in the broad sense, it means "a series of art movements in the decade from 1965 to 1975," which indicates the coinstantaneous developments of the time, including process art, earthworks, conceptual art, performance, and installations. Postminimalism, as well as minimalism, seems to correspond to the turning point from modemism to postmodernism, and therefore, seems to be one of the important clues, when we consider the argument about art and sites, such as current installations and public art. Postminimalism refers specifically to artists whom utilise Minimalism either as an aesthetic or conceptual reference point from which to develop. The term does not refer to a particular movement but rather an artistic tendency. Post-minimalist artwork is often associated or confused with conceptual art; frequently a work or artist can be described as both, as it is this conceptual element which regularly distinguishes it from Minimalism

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(2) Zou Cao鄒操

1975年於遼寧省出生，2001 年考入東北師範大學美術學院油畫系碩士研究生。
指印是大眾最原始、直接的身分確認方法，也是鄒操藝術創作中的主體及主題，透過指印為符號呈現中國傳統之「印」的概念。將自己的指紋造型放大到一塊巨大的畫布上，然後再用自己的手印粘上顏料重新塑造出這個大指紋。通過這樣一次放大與重塑，「以我的指紋重新塑造我的指紋」，在這種重複塑造的重複過程中，完成對這一符號的解構與重構。推而廣之，加入一些人物icon，形成一種獨特的藝術形式，更進一步深化作品的文化及自省層次.

我們可以在HKIAAF 2008 找到這幅ZOU CAO的畫。它使我想起Andy Warhol。這幅畫反映了兩個極端：現代人的困惑：自我和社會。前者著眼於自我的成長和文化記憶，而後者則側重於矛盾和政治。 這個系列的作品側重於指紋的詮釋和象徵。作者用自己的指紋，而不是畫筆，留下了自己的個人特徵，他的繪畫象徵著力量，系統，身份，文化和歷史。

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Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio CattelanBest known for his facetious art productions, which are as surprising as they are unsettling, Maurizio Cattelan is the ultimate sideliner artist, poking holes in art, art history, monumentality, and nationalism. Take, for instance, Daddy Daddy (2008), the sculpture that Cattelan exhibited last winter at the Guggenheim in New York. A life-size, 3-D version of Disney’s Pinocchio floats face down in the museum’s rotunda pool and, in one gesture, seems to mock the forced optimism of the art world and the authoritative status of the museum

1960, Padua, Italy. Lives and works in New York and Milan.)Maurizio Cattelan has exhibited at Skulptur Projekte, Münster (1997), the Tate Gallery, London (1999), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2003) and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2003), and participated in the Venice Biennale (1993, 1997, 1999, and 2002). He was a finalist for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss prize in 2000, received an honorary degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2004, and was also awarded the Arnold-Bode prize from the Kunstverein Kassel, Germany, that same year.RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS:

Maurizio Cattelan, Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo dell'Esposizioni, Rome, Italy2008 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Germany2007 New Works, Tate Modern, London, England Portikus, Frankfurt, GermanyMuseum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt am Rhein, GermanyRECENT GROUP EXHIBTIONS2009 Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione (Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution), 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, ItalySpazio Libro d'Artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania, Italy2008 After Nature, New Museum, New York, New York2007 Freakshow: An Unnatural History, The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England

3 contemporary artists --- Nature (Fung hiuyin)

1. Anselm kiefer

Born:March 8, 1945 (1945-03-08) (age 64)

Nationality:German

Over the past four decades, Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work in painting, sculpture and installation that has made him among the most important artists of his generation.

Kiefer studied with Joseph Beuys in the early 1970s, but soon began to develop his own, deliberately indigenous set of subjects and symbols that he used to explore the fraught territory of German history and identity. In his muscular artistic language, physical materiality and visual complexity enliven his themes and content with a rich, vibrant tactility. His subject-matter ranges over sources as diverse as Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy and the nature of belief, all depicted in a bewildering variety of materials, including oil paint, dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand, straw and all manner of organic material. By adding found materials to the painted surface of his immense tableaux, he invents a compelling third space between painting and sculpture. Recent work has broadened his range yet further, and in 2006 he showed a series of paintings based around the little-known work of modernist poet Velimir Chlebnikov (1885-1922). Few contemporary artists match Kiefer's epic reach, and his work consistently balances powerful imagery with acute critical analysis.

Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Germany in 1945. He lives and works in Provence, France. He has exhibited widely, including MoMA, New York (1987), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991), The Metropolitan Museum, New York (1998), Royal Academy, London (2001), Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth (2005) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006).

2, Fernando Botero

Birth name: Fernando Botero Angulo

Born:19 April 1932 (1932-04-19) (age 77)Medellín, Antioquia

Nationality:Colombian

Field:Painter, sculptor

Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists" early on, coming to prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1959.

Botero's work includes still-lifes and landscapes, but Botero tends to primarily focus on situational portraiture. His paintings and sculptures are, on first examination, noted for their exaggerated proportions and the corpulence of the human and animal figures.Botero explains his use of these "large people", as they are often called by critics, or obese figures and forms thus:
"An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it."Botero is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense of the word, choosing what colors, shapes, and proportions to use based on intuitive aesthetic thinking. This being said, his works are informed by a Colombian upbringing, and his social commentary is woven throughout his work.

Botero’s philosophy
For Botero painting is an interior need, but also a continual experience toward that ideal picture that will never be reached. The delicate colours, never exalted, never feverish, built up by improvising and reactions, where there are no shadows because, in his opinion, they would taint the idea of colour that he wants to transmit. To break the monotony of the tones different items used by him appear and disappear : light bulbs, cigarette stubs, flies, all this is indispensable and it is all continually changed while he is creating. To fill the wide fields of colour, the artist dilates the forms, and the people and the landscapes acquire unusual dimensions, apparently unreal, where detail becomes the major expression and large volumes remain undisturbed. Since the artist remains detached from the condition of humanity, Botero’s characters become prototypes without any moral or psychological dimension, without a soul. They feel no joy, nor pain, they look with a vacuous or squinted gaze, they do not bat an eyelid, they look without seeing. With this emotional detachment his painting acquires the dignity and tranquillity of great classicism. Botero believes that success depends on the fact that: ” It is necessary to describe something that is strictly local, very circumscribed , something with which everyone is very familiar so as to be understood by everybody. I have convinced myself that I must be parochial, in the sense of being profoundly, religiously bound to my reality, in order to be universal”.

3. Tracey Emin

Born:3 July 1963 (1963-07-03) (age 46)Croydon, London

Nationality:British

Movement:Young British Artists

Major works :
Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, My Bed

Tracey Emin’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture. Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous.

Emin’s work has an immediacy and often sexually provocative attitude that firmly locates her oeuvre within the tradition of feminist discourse. By re-appropriating conventional handicraft techniques – or ‘women’s work’ – for radical intentions, Emin’s work resonates with the feminist tenets of the ‘personal as political’. In Everyone I’ve Ever Slept With, Emin used the process of appliqué to inscribe the names of lovers, friends and family within a small tent, into which the viewer had to crawl inside, becoming both voyeur and confidante. Her interest in the work of Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele particularly inform Emin’s paintings, monoprints and drawings, which explore complex personal states and ideas of self-representation through manifestly expressionist styles and themes.

Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963, and studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited extensively internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Australia, The United States and Chile. In 2008 Emin held her first major retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which subsequently toured to Malaga (2008) and Bern in 2009. In 2007 Emin represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale, was made a Royal Academician and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, a Doctor of Letters from the University of Kent and Doctor of Philosophy from London Metropolitan University. She lives and works in London.

1998, Mattress, linens, pillows, objects79 x 211 x 234 cm

The artwork generated considerable media furore, particularly over the fact that the bedsheets were stained with body secretions and the floor had items from the artist's room (such as condoms, a pair of knickers with menstrual period stains, other detritus, and functional, everyday objects, including a pair of slippers). The bed was presented as it had been when Emin had not got up from it for several days due to suicidal depression brought on by relationship difficulties.

left : 2005 Video/Film : single screen projection animation, transferred to DVD
3 minutes

right:2005 Paintings : gouache, watercolor and pencil on canvas7.99 x 10 inches

1963–1995 by Tracey Emin (1995).
An interior view of the work.

Emin's famous "tent" , which was first exhibited in the show.
It was a blue tent, appliquéd with the names of everyone she has slept with. These included sexual partners, plus relatives she slept with as a child, her twin brother, and her two aborted children. Although often talked about as a shameless exhibition of her sexual conquests, it was rather a piece about intimacy in a more general sense, although the title invites misinterpretation.

HER OTHER WORKS: