Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

Bio

* 1976, Leung is a media artist and creative director who devoted to explore the contemporary aesthetic and meaning by merging the medium of painting, ink art, moving image and new media into a time-based art form. His works have been exhibited in the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Poland, Korea and Singapore, various international art exhibitions and film festivals. Recent solo and group exhibitions are being held in PMQ and Hong Kong Cultural Centre in 2014. Leung‘s main research is inspired and surrounded by the collective ideas of metaphysics, nature, universe, human body, spirituality, healing, art therapy and oriental philosophy; examining the universal view and delivering the message through art practice is his life work. His style could be linked with landscape painting, shan shui, lyrical abstraction with a new media approach.

www.desmondleung.net

Credits

The interview was conducted November 27, 2014 in the artist’s studio in Sai Kung Hong Kong.

Interviewed by: Johannes M. Hedinger

Filmed and recorded by: Banny Ng

Edited by: Wolfram Eggebrecht

Transcript by: Yvonne Mattern

Produced by: Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Connecting Spaces Documents #5