Gallery: Double Q Gallery
Artist(s): Nadia Ayari
Opening / Event Date: 2 Mar, 2024
Closing / End Date: 30 Mar, 2024
Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong is honoured to present Tseng Kwong Chi: Citizen of the World, a comprehensive exhibition of the Hong Kong-born artist’s pioneering body of photographic work. Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990) was not only a photographer but a performance artist, provocateur and documentarian who traversed the globe subversively exploring notions of cultural identity, perception and the role of the individual amidst iconic and sublime locations of the world. This exhibition brings together the artist’s iconic black and white self-portraits, a group of colour photographs that have not been publicly exhibited since 1983, rare sepia landscapes and, in collaboration with the artist’s estate, introduces a group of his photographs in a large-scale format for the first time.
Tseng Kwong Chi, the son of exiled Chinese nationalists, was born in Hong Kong in 1950. He developed an interest in photography at a young age when his father gave him his vintage Rolleiflex camera. At the age of 16, Tseng and his family emigrated to Canada, where he attended universities in Vancouver and Montreal, before moving to Paris where he studied art and photography at the Académie Julian. In 1979 he settled in New York City where he found his artistic milieu in the East Village. Tseng viewed himself as a citizen of the world: equally comfortable speaking French, English or Chinese, neither an insider nor outsider wherever he went, using his concocted identity as an instrument to appraise the world around him. Tseng’s works feel uncannily contemporaneous both in style and content and have greatly influenced generations of artists that followed. The work of Tseng Kwong Chi is in numerous public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tseng’s photographs were shown publicly in China for the first time at the 2004 Shanghai Biennale.
Gallery: Double Q Gallery
Artist(s): Nadia Ayari
Opening / Event Date: 2 Mar, 2024
Closing / End Date: 30 Mar, 2024