b. wing - a child lost in the city
“isolated, loneliness, wandering, self-reflections”
b. wing is a Hong Kong artist focusing her work in installation art and illustration.
After her graduation from the Middlesex University in the UK, b.wing returned to Hong Kong and began as a fashion designer. Soon she discovered a love of, and a special talent for, creating installation art and illustrations. And she started her life as a full time artist in 2002.
b. wing’s talent was soon recognise by the artist circle and she held her first solo exhibition, “if you don’t want to be perfect, you’ve come to the right place” at Agnès b. Librairie Galerie in Hong Kong. The same exhibition was then staged at Agnès b. Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan as well as Agnès b. Aoyama store in Tokyo, Japan.
After some more exhibitions, b. wing published her first illustration book in 2006, taking the same name as her first solo exhibition: “if you dont want to be perfect, you’ve come to the right place”.
May be you have to lose everything and you’ll then realise you still have yourself. - b. wing, 2006
The character “A” in this book comes from b. wing’s previous exhibitions. A keeps changing his identity and appearance. One day he’s a rock star, and the next day he’s a solitary superhero. The star he’s holding all the time is his only companion.
Day in and day out, he’s often consumed by his feelings of inadequacy, of not fitting in anywhere. A is so sensible but has an almost strange sense of innocence and imagination. He has someone he’s really in love with, “B”, though he never knows that ‘someone’ is actually himself ……
Apart from “A”, rabit is a recurrent theme in b. wing’s work. She once said: “I was asked once to give my 3 favourite animals in order of preference and description as well …”
“And I said:
01 an eagle: unaccompanied, superior, accurate
02 a jagar: cool, silent, dangonerous
03 a rabit: empty-headed, doing nothing, funny looking
The first one is what you think of yourself
The second is what others think of you
the third is what you really are.
You don’t have to tell me if it is true.”
b. wing’s art work always communicated with her audiences the immense passions and emotions. Her characters are in simple form but with strong and “impure” colours which represents the confusing of the childlike nature in human beings in the complicated world. The beauty of the combination of horror and innocent is created in her work.
Loneliness, isolation, remoteness and self-reflections are the main themes in b. wing’s creations. Through the big round eyes of her characters, we could see our own horror, worry, insecure and lack of confidence. A, may be a projection of b. wing herself, and also a projection of all of us. A child lost in the city, may be a protrait of me and you.
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b. wing’s illustration books:
If you don’t want to be perfect, you’ve come to the right place, 2006 (want to buy this book?)
We all need someone to kiss us goodbye, newly released, 2007
(want to buy this book?)
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我喜歡他的畫風，集國畫與漫畫於一體，形成很有特色的風格!!
b.wing’s works are simple, but powerful! I think half the job of being an artist is knowing what you want to draw and how to say it rather than just being able to draw very well. I especially love her little animal personality quiz. it totally floored me and made me think about different perceptions that we have about each other versus how we think about ourselves.
Simple, strange, yet beautiful drawings!
Hey dear,
I’m waiting for you to write about b.wing for awhile. And, I won’t tell you whether the 3 animals describe you correctly…
Dear Armand,
Yup, the drawing of b. wing is quite strange, just like the work of tim borton. Mixture of horror and humour.
Dear Miki,
i am so glad that you like b. wing’s work as well. i always find a sense of biterness and loneliness in her work, not easy to be disgested. : )
Dear Black Jack,
很高興你也喜歡她的晝風. 一般人會覺得怪怪的.
Dear Shine,
You should know that I would write for b. wing for some time, ka ka ~
for the questions on the 3 animals, shall I ask you this Saturday? Haha!
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Dear Cash Advance,
Thanks so much. Love to see you around!
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