Kashing Chau is a London-based artist from Hong Kong, China (b.1993). After completing his degree in sculpture at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, he went to London to continue studying his understanding of sculpture at the Royal College of Art and completed his two-year MA degree.
Kashing Chau
Kashing's creation has always focused on the material, which is different from the way many people create. For example, some people first have an idea, then conduct research and then collect materials to express their point of view. On the contrary, his creative method will try to start from the characteristics of the material itself and then after completing the work, he will finally reflect on and analyze the intention of his brain during the creative process. So Kashing tries to keep collecting and discovering materials, to use materials to inspire him, and then to express their characteristics from another perspective.
Each material has its similarities and also very different places; his job is to try to combine together their similar characteristics, to make them more integrated and strengthen the characteristics that are most similar. The viewpoints of materials are mutually stimulating, with each material offering complex information that can create different contexts from their texture, colour, material, structure, etc. He tries to give up any purpose for the work in his creation and grows with the language of the material. Kashing Chau specializes in large-scale urban sculptures and small-scale sculptures. He also pays attention to the physical experience of sculpture in space. The characteristics of the material are found to give people a sensitive experience.
This work is different from my previous way of creation. I tried to minimise any artificial transformation of materials and allow them to retain their original characteristics.
This work also attempts to express the form of sculpture in space. The sculpture can be rolled up and viewed, or presented between the wall and the floor, or in the corner, or on the ground. Each material has some kind of relationship with the others.
Medium:
Furniture fittings. Plastic sheets. Artificial leather. Screws. Plastic strip. ResinSize:
80x60x18cm 32x26x5cm 60x35cm 185cmx4
I'm interested in materials and space. This work is inspired by the shape of the bouquet of flowers and its structure, which is a relationship between interior and exterior. A lot of times when we talk about sculpture, we are also talking about architecture. I tried to express the structure of the bouquet with materials first and then I looked for some special materials to express the effect of an abstract bouquet, such as the fragility and softness of the bouquet.