# Artwork # Art Installation # Neon Light # Immersive Art Experience
# Old Hong Kong Memories # Traditional Craftsmanship
# Memoir in Neon # TaiKwun # Bloomberg Philanthropies
Memoir in Neon
「脈絡 ‧ 霓虹」
Mapping the 55 metres and 59 steps of Tai Kwun Lane into three distinct zones, Memoir in Neon leads the visitor through an imagined streetscape of 19th and 20th Century Hong Kong by celebrating some distinctly Hong Kong visual motifs such as local made red plastic chairs and lampshades, concertina shopfront grilles, local designed ubiquitous red-white-blue canvas bags and Victorian Italianate archways and treating them to minimalist repetition and interpreting them in the visual language neon light tubes. The realization of YARD’s ambitious artistic concept relies heavily on the deep experience and artistry of revered Hong Kong neon masters, including Ellen Man and Chung Kin Pui, whose knowhow, accumulated through several decades of making neon advertising and signage in the commercial sector, now inspire and enable a new generation of Hong Kong talent to extend their creative practice into the medium of neon.
「脈絡 ‧ 霓虹」將55米長、總共59級台階的大館里分為三個區域，作品帶領觀眾穿梭想象中的19世紀及20世紀香港街景，從中回憶起一些獨特的經典香港視覺意象，例如香港製造的紅色塑膠櫈和吊燈 、舊式店舖的通花拉閘、本土設計的紅白藍膠袋和維多利亞時代意大利式拱門等，並透過霓虹光管呈現出簡約的重複圖案。YARD 極具難度的作品提案之所以能夠得以實現，幸虧多名香港霓虹師傅包括文慧芳及鍾建培，以及他們在霓虹廣告和招牌製造業數十年所累積而來的豐富經驗，以及經歲月沉淀的精湛工藝，如今師傅們依然啟發新一代香港人才延續其霓虹創作實踐。
DATA
CREDIT
status
Completed
location
Tai Kwun, Central, Hong Kong
time
11.04.2024 - 10.05.2024
site area
55m (length)
Organizer/
Client
Tai Kwun
Supoorter
Bloomberg Philanthropies
construction
Serious Staging Limited
Photography
Inbetween Frames
Team
Kenneth Wong
Kei Ngan
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