Yeung Tong Lung Solo Exhibtion: Daily Practice
Yeung Tong Lung Solo Exhibtion: Daily Practice
Dates: 19 Jan - 6 Mar 2021
Opening Hours: 10:30am - 6:30pm (Tue - Sat)
Venue: Blindspot Gallery (15/F, Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong)
Daily Practice, the latest solo exhibition by Yeung Tong Lung, is presented in collaboration between ACO and Blindspot Gallery. This exhibition features the artist’s most recent works executed in 2019-2020, including Mount Davis, Cigarette Break, King of Siu Chao and Porcelain Dog, in addition to selected works from 2015 to 2018. Daily Practice proposes an expansive reading of Yeung’s paintings, a practice that spans four decades and myriad styles, but consistently based on an intimate observation of people, nature and things with whom the artist shares his existence. Painting for Yeung is a daily practice — a patient practice for internal and external growth, and an imaginative practice for representing the richness of interior worlds beyond surfaces and despite circumstances.
For exhibition press release, please see: https://blindspotgallery.com/.../yeung-tong-lung-daily.../
Supported by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Hong Kong Arts Development Council fully supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.)
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What makes Yeung Tong Lung’s Daily Practice exhibition at Blindspot Gallery feel so grounding is his complete refusal to dress up Hong Kong in glossy, postcard romanticism. Instead of neon skylines, he zeroes in on the quiet, unglamorous fabric of the city—tiled tenement stairwells, public housing corridors, and ordinary folk caught mid-breath. I was following a fascinating thread on visual storytelling, documenting vernacular urban life, and patient observational art over at Veer Game this morning, and seeing how four decades of daily studio discipline allow him to turn a cramped cha chaan teng corner into high art shows that true mastery lies in paying close attention.
The warped spatial planes in pieces like Porcelain Dog are brilliant because they completely bypass traditional single-point academic perspective. He fractures the room into multiple simultaneous viewpoints, tucking a mirror reflection here and a distorted figure there, so your eye wanders through the composition like someone walking into a cluttered local thrift shop. An art critic on Jai club was dissecting multi-angle figurative painting, breaking geometric grids, and spatial perception in contemporary realism yesterday, and the way Yeung forces the viewer to piece together the scene's emotional geometry feels remarkably immersive.
Have a Smoke is easily one of the most tender depictions of urban companionship in contemporary figurative art. Capturing a domestic helper on a nursing home rooftop lighting a cigarette for an elderly man in a wheelchair while holding her own lit smoke treats both figures with profound, quiet dignity. Stumbled into an engaging dialogue covering vulnerable community portraits, empathy in fine arts, and cross-cultural caregiving on Raxi Win recently, and seeing how smoke trails drift upward into flying birds turns a fleeting mundane pause into pure cinematic poetry
It’s refreshing that this exhibition grew out of a long-standing collaboration between Blindspot Gallery and the independent cultural space ACO (Art Cow). Yeung co-founded the Quart Society back in 1990, so his career is deeply intertwined with independent, grassroots Hong Kong artist spaces that existed long before commercial mega-fairs arrived. Picked up a really well-explained perspective on independent artist collectives, preserving underground exhibition history, and sustaining alternative art hubs via DmFirst earlier, and recognizing his role as a foundational pioneer of local self-run spaces gives this retrospective so much historical gravity.