Hong Kong Art gallery(7) - “Bleeding and Death are Two Different Things” death scenes of HK Films香港艺术展览(7) - 《七孔流血》

Today I found a very interesting exhibition in Hong Kong…

今日路過深水埗的時候，無意被我發現了一個很有趣的小展覽。

Let’s talk about the venue of exhibition first. The venue is called Common Room & Co. It’s a multi-purpose space in Sham Shui Po. It includes café, book store, exhibition and also work space. The founder take the concept of “continue the diversity of Sham Shui Po and provide a lifestyle space” and want to link the community of this multi-purpose space. At this period, there is an exhibition called “Bleeding and Death Are Two Different Things".

先說說展覽的地點，展覽的地點叫Common Room & Co. 是一個複合空間，集café, 書店，展覽場地及自造者於一身的空間，創辦人以「延續深水埗社區的多樣性，提供美好生活提案」為理念，希望以這個地方連結這個社區，而這一段時間，展覽場中的展覽名稱是《七孔流血》。

Café, book store and workspace at ground floor
地下是café，獨立書店及工作間

A small exhibition area at the 2nd floor
樓上則是展覽的小空間

The exhibition is hosted by Rex Koo, HK artists and film poster designer, cooperating with HK design crew “Dimension Plus”. It displays their paintings of the classic death scenes and Blood scenes in HK films.

《七孔流血》是由香港藝術家兼電影海報設計師Rex Koo，與本地設計團隊Dimension Plus共同合作而成，展覽中的成品俱是昔日港產片的死亡場景及血腥畫面。

Rex has an indissoluble bound to Films. He liked watching films and work as a film poster designer when he grows up. He is also the poster designer of the film “In the mood of Love”.
He liked watching the death scenes of films since he was small. Especially the last scene of Jack Nicholson dying on the snow in “The Shining”. The scene gave him a great shock and he can never forget that.

Death is special in Rex’s mind. In his mind, most humans never face “death” before death and feel strange to death. Rex found the death scenes in films give him an indirect way to face death. And this mindset gives him inspiration of this exhibition.

Rex自小就與電影結下不解之緣，長大後更是從是電影海報設計的工作，更曾為《花樣年華》設計海報，讓他對香港電影留有特別的情感。Rex小時候就特別愛留意電影中的死亡情節，尤其是Stanley Kubrick 作品《閃靈》中積尼高遜最後在雪地凍僵的情節，在他心中一直揮之不去。

死亡，給予Rex很特別的感覺，我們大多數人都未接觸過死亡，對死亡感到十分陌生，而Rex則認為電影給予他間接又舒服地正視死亡的機會，亦讓他造就出這一次個展覽。

The Chinese Character of “Death”

The exhibition shows the death scenes of the classic HK films in the 1980s – 1990s, the golden age of HK films. In Rex’s eyes, HK films in 1980s – 1990s is the great period, but also the excessive period. Only in the period we can see so many funny and strange death scenes. But watching the different crazy death scenes make him feel a lot about death.

He quoted a dialogue in the classic films “Yi Yi” by Taiwan Director Edward Yang: “After the convention of films, the life of human is extended at least three times”. Because of films, the experience of death by Rex is extended even more than three times. And he wants to freeze the death scene by picture to an unlimited long scene.

If you know HK films well, you will have a knowing smile when looking at these pictures.

展覽展出香港電影的輝煌年代，多個電影中的死亡情節。在Rex眼中，那個年代，八九十年代的香港電影是最輝煌的年代，也是最濫拍的年代，不同古怪的電影中，總有很多古怪的死法，但看著不同的死法，讓他體驗到更多死亡。他引用台灣導演楊德昌作品《一一》的對白：「電影發明以後，人類的生命比起以前至少延長了三倍」正因為電影，Rex得以對死亡有更深的體會，更延長了不止三倍，而他亦能把這些死亡情節凍結，就像把死亡的過程無限拉長成一個超長鏡頭。

如你熟識香港電影，這些畫作一定讓你會心微笑。

Classic scene of Stephen Chow’s film “Out of the Dark”
《回魂夜》的經典一幕呀！

HK classic film “Prison on Fire” in HK old comic style!
以黃玉郎畫風繪畫的監獄風雲！

Again! Stephen Chow’s film! “From Beijing with Love”
國產凌凌漆！

Which film is it from? “The mission” or “Election”
這是哪一部電影？鎗火還是黑社會？

It’s the Chinese Character of “Death”! From Stephen Chow’s “God of Cookery”
是”死”字呀！食神的經典啊！

Oh! Classic film of Andy Lau “A Moment of Romance”
天若有情，應該誰也看出來了～

And movie..還有揭頁動畫….

I really have no idea which film it is from
真的想不起這是哪部電影

OK. Classic cult film “Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky”. So I don’t plan to post the original film scene…
力王的經典一幕，原畫面我就不放出來了….

Another Stephen Chow’s classic film “Royal Tramp”
絕對是周星馳的鹿鼎記！

The death scene of Fly in Wong Kar Wai’s “As Teats Go by”
我還記得旺角卡門中烏蠅是如何死的 T_T

Oh the classic of classic…. from Stephen Chow’s film “Flirting Scholar”
看到這幅，我笑了……

Once more, you need to watch it…
讓經典一再重溫

The exhibitioin shows the death scenes of HK films. I feel the death of HK films. Watching various strange and funny death scenes, I recall the brightness and diversity of HK films in the old days. And now, HK films lose its local culture. To cater the BIG Chinese market, I saw a lot of HK films which look the same. If we need to select the classic death scenes from HK films in the 2010s, I don’t know how many we can select….

In fortune, we still have some artist like Rex, who are still working hard on local creations.

雖說展覽展示的是香港電影的死亡情節，但我不期然想到香港電影的死亡。看著各種古怪有趣的死亡情節，心想當年香港電影的輝煌和多元化，才能造就這麼多古怪的死亡。但今日香港電影卻像失去了本土性，製作人為了迎合大中華市場，拍的電影都像一式一樣，如要在2010年代的香港電影中抽出不同的死亡情節，我不知道能抽出的有幾多。

所幸的是，我們仍有很多像Rex一樣的藝術家，仍在努力的進行本土創作。

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“Bleeding and Death Are Two Different Things" Exhibition

Date: 3rd Nov to 20th Nov 2017
Venue: Common Room & CO. (No. 198, Tai Nam Street, Sham Shui Po
Opening Hours: 11:00am – 7:00pm
Facebook fanspage: https://www.facebook.com/events/197819107427272/

《七孔流血》 Rex Koo Solo Exhibition
日期：2017年11月3日至11月20日
地點：Common Room 7 Co. (香港九龍深水埗大南街198號)
開於時間：11:00 – 19:00
Facebook專頁：https://www.facebook.com/events/197819107427272/

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