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Hon Chi-fun 韓志勳
HSIANG 65-5
1965
In the 1960s, Hon Chi Fun turned away from realism in favour of more abstract expressions of his personal philosophy. In 1964, a year prior to creating this painting, Hon co-founded the Circle Art Group, an avant-garde artist collective in Hong Kong that experimented with abstraction and modernist materials and techniques. HSIANG 65-5 is a representative work from this transitional period in Hon’s oeuvre, a time when the artist was attempting to break away from traditional representations of familiar subjects. It is also an early collage work that stands as a unique example of Hon’s experiments with nontraditional media on canvas. Hidden beneath translucent layers of oil paint are lines of calligraphic text, which Hon often used in his abstract paintings of this period. With its textured brushstrokes, patinas, and sculptural plaster blocks resembling stone, this work is a study in materiality.
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