Chilean Artist Fernando Prats Paints the Beauty and Violence of Nature

Description

This exhibition showcases Fernando Prats'(b. 1964) pioneering work, which records visualisations of natural actions on smoked surfaces, such as movements of animals, seismographic vibrations and imprints of geysers shooting water from the ground.

Nature Paintings marks the debut of Prats’ ‘Paintings of Birds series’. In this ongoing body of work, the artist captures the free and fleeting beating of a bird’s wings, which creates a rhythmic imprint on the smoked surface, freezing the motion of the bird in time.

The exhibition will also include action paintings produced with wild Andean Condors, an endangered species.

Prats will be present at the exhibition opening. Additionally, he will host a talk on November 15 and a live-painting a new work for his Paintings of Birds series at an event organised by the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association on November 16.