Zang Zong-Son: Beauty Within the Ordinary
Soluna Fine Art
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Artist Zang Zong-Son depicts the beauty embedded in the ordinary moments, familiar sceneries and mundane objects in her everyday life. Using abstract blocks of colours, intricate patterns and bold lines, she deconstructs real-life elements and transforms them into figurative forms and shapes.
“My themes at the current exhibition are pages out of my diary. They represent my daily life through my painter’s lens in my special corner of Hong Kong, Stanley.”
Drawing inspiration from her surroundings, Zang mainly depicts still life compositions in her studio and landscapes of the Stanley neighborhood, where she feels the most comfortable and familiar with. All the trivialities in life can become a subject matter in her paintings, so new ideas can come to her anytime, anywhere. From flowers given by her friends, a path she took to unique encounters, they all create interesting motifs for her works, as she is able to discover the beautiful and surprising components within them.
Images: Courtesy of Felix Wong (@asia_art_hopper)
Over the years of being a painter, Zang has developed a pair of “lenses” which allows her to observe the world with her unique artistic vision. , She reinterprets the energy flowing within objects, the space between them and patterns created by shadow and light. Through her works, the artist blurs the line between imagination and reality and portrays the world with her intriguing visual narrative.
Images: Courtesy of Felix Wong (@asia_art_hopper)
Artist Biography
Zang Zong-Son (b. 1965) spent her childhood in Korea, graduated from Yonsei University and lived in London, Singapore and Hong Kong. In 2007 she started to explore painting through overseas workshops in Europe and the United States. Capturing the beauty of mundane objects and ordinary moments in life, Zang's abstract paintings encapsulate the subject's history along with her emotional and physical responses to them.
Images: Courtesy of Felix Wong (@asia_art_hopper)
