《不要紧。再尝试。再失败。》─ 关尚智个展

展览日期：2009年9月24日10月24日
开幕酒会：2009年9月24日 晚上7 - 9pm
记者会暨预展、拍卖：2009年10月15日晚上6:30pm
地点：香港中环善庆街1号地下Gallery EXIT 安全口画廊
画廊开放时间：星期一至六1100 -1900
网页：www.galleryexit.com

Gallery EXIT 安全口画廊将举行期待已久的关尚智个展《不要紧。再尝试。再失败。》。

关尚智在一系列的录像里，意图去完成特定的任务 ─ 成功的意愿与失败的必然并列展现于这些影片里。在原本的《ArtWalk劲饮挑战赛2009》中，关尚智徘徊于中环的艺廊、喝免费提供的酒；而在关尚智仿效自拍教学的录像里，再进行相同的活动，但他在中途已倒下来，录像继续拍摄他动弹不得的形态。在关尚智另一自拍的录像里，他用有业余爱好者风味的方式来示范如何制造供安乐死自杀用的「往生袋」(exit bag)。

很多关尚智的作品都是在展示一种没有个人得着的自我培训行动。在关尚智大部分的作品甚至他的日常生活里，都是建基于成功与失败、成就与挫折、计算与偶然的种种双重性中两者的相互角力。这个展览邀请你见证人生、思索如何在二元化的定框内找寻方向。

1980年生于香港。1999年入读香港中文大学艺术系。2000年起成为「香港艺术新人王」。2002年《关尚智香港巡回展》于香港十个主要展览场地巡回展出，同年于香港艺术中心举办《关尚智回顾展》。2003年毕业于香港中文大学艺术系，并获三等荣誉文学士学位。同年于火炭成立工作室，并筹办《伙炭工作室开放计划2007》。2004年起成为上班族于中环上班。2005年协助母亲曾燕雄创作其第一件作品《茶几》，其后入选《香港艺术双年展2005》。他的作品没有在世界各地广泛展出。2008年1月1日，他决定三年内不再出售自己的所有作品。2009年2月，他合作成立网上艺术电视台，香港艺术搜索频道（HKADC）。他亦是本地艺术团体「政艺小组」，及「活化厅」的创办成员，两者皆专注于与本地政治、社会议题及社群，并作相关的实验性艺术实践计划。2009年获得亚洲文化协会给予Starr Foundation Fellowship交流奖金，他将前往美国纽约参加艺术家留驻计划。

艺术家将会出席开幕酒会。欢迎传媒预约进行访问。记者会暨预展、拍卖将于2009年10月15日晚上6:30举行。

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No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again – KWAN Sheung Chi’s Solo Exhibition

September 24 – October 24, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, September 24, 7 – 9pm
Press conference, preview and auction: Thursday, October 15, 6:30pm
Location: Gallery EXIT, G/F, 1 Shin Hing Street, Central, Hong Kong
Gallery opening hours: Mon - Sat, 1100 -1900
Website: www.galleryexit.com

Gallery EXIT is pleased to announce No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again., the long awaited solo exhibition by KWAN Sheung Chi.

Kwan juxtaposes the intention to succeed with the inevitability of failure in a series of videos that document him going about his pre-planned tasks. In the original Artwalk Drinking Challenge 2009, Kwan wandered through all the art galleries in Central to drink free alcoholic drinks. In the remaking of the same event as a Do-It-Yourself instructional video, Kwan collapsed half way through as the video continues to record him in inaction. In another DIY-like video, Kwan demonstrates in a Sunday-hobbyist approach of how to make the exit bag, a popular euthanasia and assisted suicide device.

Many of his tasks take the form of self-training without advancement. This ongoing wrestle with the duality of success and failure, achievement and failure, calculation and chance, underlies much of his recent work and even his daily life. We are invited to be witnesses of a life, to come up with exit strategies from our dualistic mindset.

KWAN Sheung Chi was born in Hong Kong in 1980. In 1999 he entered the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2000 he was named the “King of Hong Kong New Artist”. In 2002, Kwan Sheung Chi Touring Series Exhibitions, Hong Kong was exhibited and toured 10 major exhibition venues in Hong Kong. Within the same year, the Hong Kong Arts Centre presented A Retrospective of Kwan Sheung Chi. In 2003, he graduated with a third-class honor bachelor degree from the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the same year, he set up a studio in Fotan, and organized Fotanian: Open Studio 2007. From 2004 he became a nine-to-fiver in Central. In 2005 he helped his mother, TSANG Yin-hung, to create her first artwork, Teapoy. The piece was included in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005, as a selected entry. His artworks have not been widely exhibited around the world. On 1st January 2008, he determined not to sell any of his artworks for 3 years. In February 2009, he co-founded the web-based arts TV channel, Hong Kong Arts Discovery Channel (HKADC). He is also a founding member of the local art groups, hkPARTg (Political Art Group) and Woofer Ten, which both focus on experimental practices of art in relation to local politics, social issues and communities. In 2009, He was awarded the Starr Foundation Fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council to take part in an international residency program in New York City, USA.

Artist will be present at the opening reception. Please feel free to contact us for media interview with artist. A press conference, preview and auction will be held on October 15, 2009, 6:30pm at Gallery EXIT.

For more information and images, please contact Doris Wong at 2541 1299 or email info@galleryexit.com.