Opening Ceremony - November 8, 2005, 6pm - 8pm:
Artist will attend the opening ceremony

In his biography, Fung Mingchip used only two lines to describe his education and training: worked after completing primary school in 1964; moved to New York in 1977 and lives in New York, Taiwan and Hong Kong since 1986. It is a big contrast to his long lists of solo and group exhibitions in New York, London, Taiwan and Hong Kong over the past twenty years.

Fung Mingchip concentrates his creativity in three areas: seal carvings, sculptures and calligraphy. In the "Abstract Forms" exhibition at Art Beatus Gallery, Fung will show only his two-dimensional seal carvings as well as the conceptual three-dimensional extensions -- sculptures.

In his creative process, Fung takes Chinese seal carvings to a level beyond the established and conventional concepts of this traditional art form. He emphasizes on the chisels and chops on the sub-surfaces of the seals instead of the accepted lines of brush-strokes on the surfaces. Using wood plank as the working medium, he realizes his works in unconventional sizes. These wood carvings, on their own, become another independent art form.

Within the same process, Fung adds yet another twist to his works.  By taking out whatever connotations that may exist in his carved forms, he turns out symbols that have no established meaning thus making them abstract.

Art Beatus Gallery is located at Shop 301-302 Exchange Square Podium level.  For further information about this exhibition, you can e-mail us at dyiu@artbeatus.com.hk or call either Dominic Chan at 852-2522-1138 or Josephine Hau at 852-2526-0818.
Yang Yi, born in 1964, was a graduate of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. She majored in Chinese Painting in school but soon departed from creating along the traditional themes.  She now works in Beijing and also holds a teaching post at the Guiyang Normal University of her native province.