Frog King: Recent Works

For the second consecutive year 10 Chancery Lane Gallery will provide a platform to Hong Kong favourite, pioneering conceptual artist, Frog King (aka Kwok Mang-Ho) for his new, solo exhibition of mixed media, performance art, large and small scale canvases, screen work and a large in-situ installation. From Tuesday 1 December, engage and experience the latest works of Hong Kong’s award-winning creative mastermind.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery’s Director Katie De Tilly will curate work produced by Frog King in the last year and a half, making his current cultural products accessible to the general public for the first time. One of Hong Kong’s most iconic and dynamic artists, Frog King’s non-conventional works quite literally jumps off the canvas: highly interactive in nature, the larger than life personality will perform a new performance work which will be painted along Chancery Lane’s former prison wall during the opening.

Breaking boundaries since the 1960s, Kwok is China’s first performance artist (having undertaken his legendary Plastic Bag performance project at the Great Wall in 1979), participating in more than 3,000 art events internationally and receiving numerous international awards and honors. The vibrant and prolific Frog King has long been considered ahead of his time.  Now is the time for recognition and celebration of the gregarious artist that represented Hong Kong at the 54th Venice Biennale.

Frog King’s works are part of his conceptual utopia that incorporates his philosophy of action and free spirit happenings – what the artist himself refers to as “Hark Bun Lum.” His works are either highly experimental and spontaneous creations or quiet meditative moments. Visitors to the gallery can explore Frog King’s life and fascinating work process through an explorative photo-documentary of his life by photographer Margaux Helleu, which Katie has incorporated into the exhibition.

Advocate of Chinese Contemporary art and talented home-grown artists, Gallery Director Katie de Tilly has been driving the contemporary arts’ culture in Hong Kong through her support of the region’s best and emerging artists. With her minimalist approach, Katie has condensed and translated a year’s worth of work into an exhibition which reveals more about the man behind the signature Froggy persona.