zauho: 即興 / Ad Lib

即興 / Ad Lib is an exhibition organized by nine fine arts students whose is currently studying in the Hong Kong Arts School. They are: Bonnie Mak, Candy Cheung, Chris Chan, Jasmine Wong, Joey Chung, Simona Lam, Trix Wong, Vincent Yan, Yin Lo.

To most of the fine arts students, organizing exhibition is definitely a challenging experience. Hong Kong Art Center provides a small but delicate venue –White Tube for the students to exhibit their artworks before they become a real artist. White Tube is located on the 10/F in HKAC. It ‘s actually a corridor in front of school administration office. Because of its completely white decoration and its circulating structure, therefore, the name White Tube was born.

The title of every single exhibition tells the attitude and the gesture of artist(s) or movement. In this group exhibitioon, they use the phase “Ad Lib” to signify themselves. So what kind of attitude of these nine students are telling the public? Inside the leaflet of this exhibition, they says ‘"Ad-lib" is an exhibition in improvisational form, where each student unfolds his / her current creative concepts and artistic expression without prior planning. Through spur-of-the-moment improvisation, they explore individual and collective artistic ideas, thus providing inspiration to themselves and to other people.’ Therefore, this exhibition is not merely a show, but a process of self-realisation and self-understanding. It offers an oppurtunity for the student to step back and review their artistic development, and the most important thing, to coorobate future direction of their particular art.

Attending an exhibition like this one, is different from any other exhibition. Because every piece of artwork which shown in the gallery is not yet completed in certain sense. What being hanged on the wall is the concept which developed by these young students throughout their study, like what they have said – improvisation. It is a transformation of what they have seen in everyday life; what they had experienced; and what they are questioning for. All these elements gradually merged with every individuals personality. This exhibition, thus, works as a platform for them to make immediate response to their own afflatus. As an audience working through the gallery, what one can see is not only the artwork, but an illimitable creativeness sphereof these young artists.