(extracted from the artist's own website: http://www.chowchunfai.com/artist.html)
Chow Chung Fai is a local award-wining artist and at the same time one of the founding members of Fotanian Artists’ Village. His work examines the relationship between different types of artistic media such as paintings vs. films, photo installation vs. "academic" art, etc etc.
For example, one of his installation works shown below closely resembled the painting by Vermeer: The Art pf Painting
Chow Chun Fai
The Art of Painting
Photo
2009
Photogapher: John Tsang
Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675),
The Art of Painting (De Schilderkunst),
oil on canvas, c.1666
Vermeer was a successful dutch painter skillful in domestic interior scenes of middle class life, in his painting The Art pf Painting the emphasis was on the importance of the art of painting.
Another example of his installation work, "Academy", which has striking resemblance to the Renaissance painting "The School of Athens", one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.
Academy, Renaissance Trilogy III, Chow Chun Fai, Photo Installation, 2006
The School of Athens, Raphael, Fresco, c.1509-1510
He also created paintings by following the film scenes loyally with as much detail as possible
《縱橫四海-「誰能偷到此畫便能聲名大噪」》, 周俊輝, 磁漆布本 Once a Thief, “Any self-respecting thief would be proud to steal this painting”, Chow Chun Fai, enamel paint on canvas, 2008
His paintings are painted with great detail and super realism, in a way that viewer might feel he or she is looking at a photograph instead of a painting.
《旺角．西洋菜街》, 周俊輝, 油彩布本 Mong Kok, Sai Yeung Choi Street, Chow Chun Fai, oil on canvas, 2004
《的士》, 周俊輝, 油彩布本 Taxi, Chow Chun Fai,
oil on canvas, 2003
The following is probably an explanation on Chow's fondness of recreating film scenes:
"Chow Chun-fai started with painting that put Hong Kong landscape and taxi in the spot light. Afterwards, he used a mixture of photography and painting to create a series of work using western classical painting as drafts. In 2006, he started using film as his work’s motif; using local classical imagery to transform into art work… the artist wants to recreate a dialogue through redraw a film with an adapted screenplay to bring out the story of the reproduction."
(From the website of Hanart TZ Gallery, http://www.hanart.com/exhibition_detail.php?id=145&m=3)
(All pictures of Chow's works are extracted from his website: http://www.chowchunfai.com/artist.html, pictures of other famous paintings are extracted from Wikipedia)
The following is probably an explanation on Chow's fondness of recreating film scenes:
"Chow Chun-fai started with painting that put Hong Kong landscape and taxi in the spot light. Afterwards, he used a mixture of photography and painting to create a series of work using western classical painting as drafts. In 2006, he started using film as his work’s motif; using local classical imagery to transform into art work… the artist wants to recreate a dialogue through redraw a film with an adapted screenplay to bring out the story of the reproduction."
(From the website of Hanart TZ Gallery, http://www.hanart.com/exhibition_detail.php?id=145&m=3)
(All pictures of Chow's works are extracted from his website: http://www.chowchunfai.com/artist.html, pictures of other famous paintings are extracted from Wikipedia)
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