A solo exhibition by local artist and photographer Kun Wang Tou titled “Non-View” is displaying 23 sets of his digital photographic landscapes at the Art For All Society (AFA) gallery.
The exhibition, according to a recent AFA statement, is part of its 2023 annual plan, being Part One of the “View-Non-View” – Artistic Imagery Art Exhibition Series.
Kun was born in the 1990s and specialises in photography as well as image creation, the statement noted. He has done research on the abstraction of images from landscape photography to post-production process in recent years.
In the exhibition, the statement said, he transforms everyday landscapes and nature into “abstract visual forms” and explores “the possibilities of viewable and non-viewable in a ‘new style of photography’”. The statement added that the digital landscapes are inspired by famous philosopher Zhuangzi’s (莊子) question “Is its azure the proper colour of the sky?”.
Kun was quoted in the statement as saying that Non-View is “against active and superficial viewing, experimenting between the photographic medium and digital landscape images, expressing the contradiction between man-made objects (technology) and nature, extracting elements from landscape photographic images, reducing them to ‘pixels’, and printing them into large scale imagery works”.
He added that the abstract landscape “mirrors the reality of viewing, as an exploration of ‘non-view’.”
The statement said that the artist is “destroying and re-creating in the world of digital photography, trying to break all the rules”, which are shown in earlier works such as “Non-View: When the Sky Opens” (2020) and “Non-View: Noah Sees the Mountain Top” (2021), as well as in his latest work, “The Birch of Non-View” (2023).
The exhibition runs through April 22. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily except for Sundays and public holidays. For more details, visit https://www.afamacau.com/.
Photos taken yesterday by Rui Pastorin
