Stanley Wong

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Stanley Wong Ping Pui
Born 1960
Hong Kong
Education Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College (Design & Technology) graphic design course
Notable work MTR advertisements (1990)
Red White Blue (2001)

Stanley Wong Ping Pui (Chinese :黃炳培), also known as "Another mountain man" (又一山人), is a Hong Kong artist. He created the Red White Blue series, a series of artwork based on the red-white-blue bags which are commonplace in Hong Kong.

Traditional Chinese characters

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Hong Kong East Asian city

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.

Red-white-blue bag

Red-white-blue bag (Chinese:紅白藍膠袋) or laundry bag is a carriage bag made out of nylon canvas in colors of red, white and blue. It originated in Hong Kong in the 1960s and has become a representative of Hong Kong culture. Because the nylon canvas is known of its light, firmness and durable usage, it is commonly used as hand carry luggage and transport between Mainland China and Hong Kong.

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Early life and education

During his childhood, Wong lived with his family in a roof extension shed on Canton Road. Their home was badly damaged during Typhoon Wanda in 1962. Wong recalled that he "had no aptitude for rote learning", but developed a talent for photography and design during his teenage years, winning many awards in local competitions. [1] [2]

Canton Road

Canton Road is a major road in Hong Kong, linking the former west reclamation shore in Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok on the Kowloon Peninsula. The road runs mostly parallel and west to Nathan Road. It starts from the junction with Salisbury Road in the south and ends in the north at the junction with Lai Chi Kok Road in the Prince Edward area. The southern part Canton Road is home to many upscale retail shops, shopping centres and others business establishments, with busy traffic from both vehicles and pedestrians from morning till late night.

Typhoon Wanda (1962) Pacific typhoon in 1962

Typhoon Wanda was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in Hong Kong. It was the 59th disturbance in the record-breaking 1962 Pacific typhoon season, forming in August east of the Philippines. Typhoon Wanda reached peak winds of 175 km/h (110 mph) in the South China Sea, and it made landfall on Hong Kong on September 1, producing gusts of 261 km/h (161 mph) which, in combination with a high storm surge, damaged thousands of huts and left 72,000 people homeless. Wanda left a total of 434 deaths, and it is estimated that an identical typhoon striking today would cause HK$2.6 billion in losses.

After completing his Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination, Wong enrolled in the design and technology course of Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College (now part of Hong Kong Institute of Education). He also took design classes in the Hong Kong Polytechnic, but was expelled when the school discovered that he was already employed as a designer when he enrolled in the design programme. He graduated from Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College in 1980. [1]

Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination

The Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination was a standardised examination between 1974 and 2011 after most local students' five-year secondary education, conducted by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA), awarding the Hong Kong Certificate of Education secondary school leaving qualification. The examination has been discontinued in 2012 and its roles are now replaced by the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education as part of educational reforms in Hong Kong.

Advertising career

After his graduation, he worked in graphic design and advertising. In 1990, he became well known for an advertisement series which he created for the MTR. [2] In 1996, he relocated to Singapore and became the first Chinese national to take the position of Asia creative director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty. He left the position and returned to Hong Kong in 1999 to become the CEO of TBWA Hong Kong. [1] [3] He established 84000communications in 2007. [4]

MTR rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong

The Mass Transit Railway is a major public transport network serving Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus service centred on an 11-line rapid transit network serving the urbanised areas of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. The system currently includes 218.2 km (135.6 mi) of rail with 159 stations, including 91 heavy rail stations and 68 light rail stops. The MTR is one of the most profitable metro systems in the world; it had a farebox recovery ratio of 187% in 2015, the world's highest.

Bartle Bogle Hegarty

Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) is a global advertising agency. Founded in 1982 by British ad men John Bartle, Nigel Bogle, and John Hegarty, BBH has offices in London, New York City, Singapore, Shanghai, Mumbai, Stockholm and Los Angeles and employs more than 1000 staff worldwide. The company is part of international agency group Publicis.

TBWA Worldwide American international advertising agency

TBWA Worldwide is an international advertising agency whose main headquarters are in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The agency is a unit of Omnicom Group, the world's largest advertising agency holding company. It was founded in 1970 in Paris, France, by William G. Tragos, Claude Bonnange, Uli Wiesendanger, and Paolo Ajroldi. The first letter of each founder's name provided the initials for the new organization. They were purchased by the Omnicom Group in 1993.

Artistic career

Adoption of pseudonym

Wong adopted the pseudonym "Another Mountain Man" (又一山人), a tribute to 17th-century Chinese artist Bada Shanren (八大山人). He used the pseudonym for artwork that had "less of a commercial flavour". One of his early works under this pseudonym was a publicity poster for the 1994 film Chungking Express by Wong Kar-wai. [1]

Bada Shanren Chinese artist

Bada Shanren was a Han Chinese painter of ink wash painting and a calligrapher. He was of royal descent, being a direct offspring of the Ming dynasty prince Zhu Quan who had a feudal establishment in Nanchang. His master lineage's accession was revoked following the last Ning Lineage King Zhu Chenhao's rebellion in 1521, but the rest of the lineage was allowed to retain status in Jiangxi. Art historians have named him as a brilliant painter of the period.

<i>Chungking Express</i> 1994 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his relationship with a woman. The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop obsessed with his breakup with a woman named May, and his encounter with a mysterious drug smuggler. The second stars Tony Leung as a police officer roused from his gloom over the loss of his flight attendant girlfriend by the attentions of a quirky snack bar worker.

Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director

Wong Kar-wai, BBS is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Internationally renowned as an auteur of the Hong Kong Second Wave, his visually unique and highly stylized work includes As Tears Go By (1988), Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), 2046 (2004), and The Grandmaster (2013). His film In the Mood for Love (2000), starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, notably garnered widespread critical acclaim.

Red White Blue series

In 2001, Wong began a collection of artwork named Building Hong Kong, the most famous component of which was the Red White Blue series. Red White Blue was a re-creation of red-white-blue bags which are commonly used among Hong Kong people. [5]

Commenting on the motive behind Building Hong Kong, Wong said that the series of artwork was created at a time when negative sentiment was rife in Hong Kong culture, and he wanted his artwork to make Hongkongers proud of the Hong Kong identity. [1] [3] He said his fascination with red-white-blue bags began during a trip to Soho, London in 1988. He saw a red-white-blue bag on display in an up-end fashion shop and realised that the lowly red-white-blue bag would make a good symbol of Hong Kong's "regional identity". He hoped that the series would evoke the resilience of 1960s Hong Kong. [6] [7]

Another Mountain Man and red-white-blue art came to fame in Hong Kong as the result of a 2004 concert series by singer Samuel Hui, in which he wore a red-white-blue costume designed by Wong. [2]

A Red White Blue exhibition was held in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in 2004–05. [8] Liu Nga Ying of Lingnan University commented that this exhibition set the tone of subsequent uses of the red-white-blue motif in Hong Kong public art, writing that it suggested "a fixed and unitary notion of Hong Kong working class identity through the works’ construction of idealised and nostalgic spaces in Hong Kong." [9]

The series represented Hong Kong in the 2005 Venice Biennale. [6] RTHK considered Red White Blue as Wong's most notable work, and posed the question "between Red White Blue and Another Mountain Man, is there an equal sign?" [1] In 2012, Red White Blue won the Design For Asia Award. [5]

In 2013, Wong's Show Flat 04 was exhibited at the Third-Floor – Hermès gallery in Orchard Road, Singapore. The exhibition featured a Red White Blue-themed show home. [7] [10]

Other awards and exhibitions

He celebrated the 30th anniversary of his creative career in 2011 with the "what's next 30 x 30" creative exhibition co-hosted with 30 international artists, including Kan Tai Keung, Freeman Lau, Ju Ming, and Yohji Yamamoto. [11]

Wong's installation art Impermanence won the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012. Impermanence featured a coffin made from a sofa, a coffee table, and a bookshelf, in order to signify the connection between life and death. [12] [13]

Wong donated some of his works to M+ museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. [14]

Personal life

Wong met his wife when he was 21 years old and they married in 1989. They planned to emigrate to Canada together, but divorced shortly after his wife relocated to Canada. Wong converted to Buddhism and vegetarianism during the years when he was separated from his wife. The couple remarried, ten years after their separation. [1]

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