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拍品专文
Painted between 2016 and 2018, Huang Yuxing’s Boundless Ocean- Vast Sky features his iconic, jewel-like fluorescent palette, using meticulous brushwork and intense colours to depict a unique “urban landscape” as seen through contemporary eyes. Titled after a popular song by the Hong Kong music group BEYOND, the present work is a rare diptych from Huang’s oeuvre that captures the transformation of Hong Kong’s cityscape from past to present. The artist uses the overlapping technique to enhance the vibrancy inherent in fluorescent colours, creating a visual flow that is bright and rhythmic. The vertical mountain ranges spanning both canvases resemble a figurative depiction of acoustic waves or a seismograph recording ground motions, presenting an abstract yet vivid outline of the city’s diversity and spiritual pulse.
The artist makes ingenious use of the diptych to explore the old and new facets of Hong Kong’s cityscape: ; the left panel captures the old Hong Kong in softer and more subdued tones, an urban-scape filled with human kindness and delicacy; the right panel rendered in contrasting, almost psychedelic colours, representing today's prosperous city that full of vitality. The artist inserts landmarks of historical significance from different eras in between the mountainous landscapes, including Fringe Club, the Former Marine Police Headquarters (now 1881 Heritage), the University of Hong Kong, International Finance Centre, Palace Museum, and Jockey Club. As an artist trained in the Department of Mural Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Huang Yuxing began experimenting with different painting styles after his graduation in 2000. While his early works often incorporated existing imagery, this approach soon fell short of satisfying his passion for the medium. His later works became increasingly abstract, using layers of thin and translucent paints to evoke the artist’s impressions of the people, events, and scenes he encountered. In the composition, layers of colours interact where bright hues and dark colour blocks converge, as the interplay results in a scene that alternates between the somber and the colourful. The gradual formation of colours is imbued with uncertainty, while the repeated application infuses a vitality into the painting through the artist’s brush.
Huang Yuxing is fascinated by the tension between colours. In the present work, the towering mountain ranges are juxtaposed with the horizontal coastlines extending along the horizon. The contrast between steepness and gentleness, the dynamic and the static, creates an intricate equilibrium in the composition, unveiling a pattern that embodies eternal change and constancy. A masterpiece with surrealist undertones, this work not only conveys the artist’s understanding of life and time but also reflects the changes and growth in his mindset over the years, transposing the viewer to a utopia where the ephemeral and the eternal coexist.
The artist makes ingenious use of the diptych to explore the old and new facets of Hong Kong’s cityscape: ; the left panel captures the old Hong Kong in softer and more subdued tones, an urban-scape filled with human kindness and delicacy; the right panel rendered in contrasting, almost psychedelic colours, representing today's prosperous city that full of vitality. The artist inserts landmarks of historical significance from different eras in between the mountainous landscapes, including Fringe Club, the Former Marine Police Headquarters (now 1881 Heritage), the University of Hong Kong, International Finance Centre, Palace Museum, and Jockey Club. As an artist trained in the Department of Mural Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Huang Yuxing began experimenting with different painting styles after his graduation in 2000. While his early works often incorporated existing imagery, this approach soon fell short of satisfying his passion for the medium. His later works became increasingly abstract, using layers of thin and translucent paints to evoke the artist’s impressions of the people, events, and scenes he encountered. In the composition, layers of colours interact where bright hues and dark colour blocks converge, as the interplay results in a scene that alternates between the somber and the colourful. The gradual formation of colours is imbued with uncertainty, while the repeated application infuses a vitality into the painting through the artist’s brush.
Huang Yuxing is fascinated by the tension between colours. In the present work, the towering mountain ranges are juxtaposed with the horizontal coastlines extending along the horizon. The contrast between steepness and gentleness, the dynamic and the static, creates an intricate equilibrium in the composition, unveiling a pattern that embodies eternal change and constancy. A masterpiece with surrealist undertones, this work not only conveys the artist’s understanding of life and time but also reflects the changes and growth in his mindset over the years, transposing the viewer to a utopia where the ephemeral and the eternal coexist.