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Eddie Lui 呂豐雅
Silhouette 疊影
1973
Eddie Lui’s body of work is representative of Hong Kong ink practices that are in dialogue with tradition, but that incorporate new materials and techniques in ambitious ways. A practicing artist and designer, Lui is also an arts educator and administrator in Hong Kong. His oeuvre is concerned with cycles of birth and death, cosmically large concepts which he realises through quasi-organic abstract forms.
Silhouette is typical of Lui’s style in the 1970s, with compositions featuring voluminous forms in bright colours. Following his mentors Lui Shou-kwan and Wucius Wong, Lui occupies a midpoint between ink painting and graphic design, creating designs with lively surface textures. This work is characterised by vibrant, saturated hues and by a layering of ink and gouache on strong Japanese rice paper that retains the ink’s bright colours. The work’s forms recall human physiology or botany, which are motifs in Lui’s practice. Silhouette was exhibited widely and was an early milestone in his career.
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