Stanley Chen

Self Portrait with Firework, 2024100 x 80cmPrice on Request

Details

MaterialGalleryLocation

graphite, acrylic, watercolor on canvasMou ProjectsHong Kong

Description

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The artwork presents a striking monochrome drawing featuring an intricate pattern of glittering fireworks bursting across the face of the subject. The bold, graphic composition creates a sense of energy and movement, drawing the viewer's gaze towards the subject's pensive expression. The use of chalk or pastel highlights the artist's skilled draftsmanship, capturing the fleeting, ephemeral nature of the fireworks display. This work likely explores themes of human emotion and the interplay between inner contemplation and external spectacle, reflecting the artist's intention to evoke a contemplative mood in the viewer. ...

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Artist

Stanley Chen

1997

Stanley Chen explores the fluidity of identity and the process of seeking self through his personal diasporic experience of displacement. Leveraging self-portraiture as his primary artistic medium, Chen’s autobiographical work generates an illusory depiction of figuration. In his practice, he presents contradictory characters who exude feelings of fragility, loneliness, clumsiness, and an almost faded appearance.

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Gallery

Mou Projects

Hong Kong

MOU PROJECTS (formerly known as MINE PROJECT) is a Hong Kong-based contemporary art gallery established in 2019. Since its inception, the gallery has been dedicated to showcase both local and international emerging artists working in all media and has held many of their first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong as well as in Asia. With an aim to facilitate artistic dialogues and conceptual innovations, the gallery supports artists whose experimental practices and boundary-pushing ethos reflect the current social reality and manifest an alternative contemporary aesthetics.