Wangsim is pleased to present Taiwan-based artist Liu Cheng-Hsiang’s first-ever Hong Kong solo exhibition, Cosmos of Thoughts: The Future Drawings, as part of the Y-LOT SciTech Series. The high-tech, dual-venue presentation will feature a wide range of recent computer assisted digital artworks created by Liu. In addition to the art pieces on view, the month-long “art & technology” program, powered by a group of esteemed local non-profit initiatives, will also include an artist talk, computer science and drawing workshops, bringing awareness to the local development of art, science and technology.

Liu’s tech-based art practice is inspiring and very much digestible for most of the viewers, who, even with our smartphones, high-tech drones and digital home assistant “Alexa”, are dangerously untrained for computer science or engineering. Carefully tucking away the long digital sequences and complex 3D renderings (which the artwork designs were originally blueprinted), the artist presents fine art prints using state-of-the-art printing techniques. Resembling traditional Asian paintings with meticulous Gongbi brushes, the pieces are completed in a fine and slow process, deeply connected to the artist’s inner self and ever-self-bettering spirits. Lending the art space a magical presence of galaxies, nebulas and cosmic rays with mesmerizing colors and great depth. Always sleek, quick-witted and incredibly tech-savvy, Liu has one time said slowly, “I created a digital universe for viewers to store their true thoughts. Through that, I hope they find their true self”. “The universe” highlights the relationship between machine and mankind, technology and creativity, inner and outer self; those exquisite works in it are inevitably the future drawings.

Gallery address: Part I: V54, 54 Village Road, Happy Valley (10th - 19th Sept)

Part II: Fortune Metropolis, Shop 714 (18th- 26th Sept)