HONG KONG 24 January, 2002—It is not difficult to be completely blown away by the art works of Anthony Lam. He creates sculptural installations combining his ideas sometimes with projected video images. This young Hong Kong artist is showing his installation works at the 10 Chancery Lane Gallery from February 13-March 1, 2003.
Hong Kong’s recent group of graduates from the Art Centre’s bachelor in Fine Arts degree with Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University has produced Anthony Lam, an up-and-coming multi-media sculptor who has already been collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Lam was selected among more than 4000 entries to exhibit with The 13thContemporary HK Art Biennial Exhibition and has been awarded as finalist of the Philippe Charriol Foundation Competition, twice.
In the current show, Superficial Experience, Lam’s work deals with the “face” where he explores the complexity behind people’s many changing images. Lam states, “As we need clothing to conceal the naked body, we put on different faces to suit different occasions.”
Lam utilizes clear acrylic Lucite to sculpt faces and sometimes projects video to emphasize the humans changing face on a plastic object. The hardness of the Lucite reflects the hidden emotion where the video portrays ever-changing expressions. One large piece, more than two meters tall, is made out of the same materials as a Chinese Lantern and is made into a giant face. A video is projected on the fragile object.