Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at its Sik On street gallery space an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Yuan Fang, Yirui Jia, Liu Yin and Homer Shew.
 
Yuan Fang’s Galloping belongs to a recent series of large-scale paintings, dealing with the increasing intimacy between the canvas and the space in which the artist creates. Evident of a gestural process that involves speedy choreographic movements, the inky artwork depicts abstract forms that resemble curling whirlwinds; red, green and white slashes ominously gather and shatter, confusing the subject and the ground of the painting. Just as many of Fang’s multilayered abstract paintings, the intense, tumultuous surface of Gallopingbuilds upon erasures and paint-overs, leaving faint traces of previous compositions that had become unwieldy. However, unlike many of Fang’s other paintings that are concerned with a sense of depth — the Marching series from 2022, for example — Galloping proliferates laterally, tearing apart any semblance of visual perspective along with the very integrity of the canvas itself. In comparison, Fang’s two untitled charcoal drawings demonstrate a monochrome clarity that is grounded in gravitational and aquatic realities, serving as an prelude to any emotionally charged, unruly escalations.

Gallery address: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai