Press ReleaseAttention Arts and Features Editors12 April 2013For immediate releaseA GAME OF CONSEQUENCES 繪畫合併本Régis Gonzalez & Tsang Chui MeiCurated by Amandine Hervey of Mur NomadeA program part of Le French May 2013VenueDates

TimeMedia EnquiriesOsage Atelier4/F, Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, KLN• Artist Residency (visitors are welcome to view the process and interact withthe artists on site): 17 April - 26 April, 2013• Exhibition of the wall painting completed during the residency: 27 April - 30April, 2013Monday to Sunday 10:30 am to 7 pmEnd-of-residency Reception & Artist Talk: Saturday 27 April, 2013, 3 pmAmandine Hervey, T: +852 6718 7446, E: amandine@murnomade.comCharmaine Lim, T: +852 2389 8332, E: charmaine@osagegallery.comMur Nomade has invited French painter Régis Gonzalez and Hong Kong artist Tsang Chui Mei toparticipate in a collaborative artist-in-residence program at Osage Atelier. During a two-weekresidency, they will create together a 20-meter long ephemeral wall painting.
The working method for this collaboration will derive from Exquisite Corpse, a game invented by theSurrealist writers and painters, inspired by the old parlor game Consequences, in which words orimages were collectively assembled. Surrealists partook of this game in French cafés during the1930s, intending to produce creative processes free of conscious control.

1	  During the residency, Régis Gonzalez and Tsang Chui Mei will work in open-studio. This will give anopportunity to visitors of all ages to interact with experienced painters from two different culturalbackgrounds.
As this wall painting is designed to be ephemeral, the emphasis will be put equally on thecollaborative process of creation, the sharing between the artists and the Hong Kong public, and theend result. This initiative is based on the conviction that cultural exchanges support creativity,encourage experimentation and foster mutual understanding.
To mark the end of the artist-in-residence program and present the completed wall painting, therewill be a Reception and Artist Talk on Saturday 27 April, 2013 at 3:00 pm.
This project is supported by the Osage Art Foundation.

IAbout Régis GonzalezIBorn in 1976, Régis Gonzalez lives and works in France. He graduated in Fine Arts in 2001 and hashad exhibitions throughout Europe. His work will be presented this autumn in a 3,000-square-feetsolo exhibition during Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale. Régis Gonzalez’s paintings and works onpapers are in private collections in Europe and Asia.
In his art practice, Régis Gonzalez draws on his fervent study of art history combined with hiscaustic observation of our modern society. His works touch on profound and universal themes suchas death and anxiety. They are unsettling, ambiguous and, at times, can even provoke unease.
Moreover the formal construction of his drawings and paintings contributes to taking viewers out oftheir comfort zones for he uses unexpected viewpoints or subtle manipulations of the classical rulesof perspective and representation.

IAbout Tsang Chui Mei

IBorn in 1972, Tsang Chui Mei lives and works in Hong Kong. She obtained her Bachelor and Masterdegrees in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1996 and 2003 respectively.
thTsang Chui Mei was the winner of the Philippe Charriol Foundation 20 Anniversary Competition in2005. Her work is part of the Hong Kong Museum of Art collection.
Tsang Chui Mei goes beyond her knowledge of both Chinese and Western aesthetics, combiningvigorous and textured brush strokes with delicate figurative elements such as insects and flowers tocreate imaginary scenes. Form is central to Tsang Chui Mei’s art practice, as colors, lines,perspective and composition constitute for her forces capable of projecting emotions.

IAbout Mur Nomade

IMur Nomade is a curatorial office, located in Hong Kong.
Mur Nomade conceives projects that encourage creative encounters between artists and dialogueswith the public: exhibitions, artist residencies, cultural exchanges, collaborative art projects,workshops and outreach programs.
Mur Nomade is the French translation of ‘nomadic wall’. Without being attached to a specific venue,we work with artists from around the world and strive to find the most relevant space for eachproject.

2	  IOsage Art Foundation

IThe Osage Art Foundation (OAF), established in 2004, works in the areas of cultural exchange,educational outreach and the building of knowledge. Since 2005, OAF has been promoting crosscultural understanding through art exhibitions between Hong Kong, China, Japan, Singapore, thePhilippines, Myanmar and Thailand. OAF exhibitions develop from substantial research, aim tomake strong statements about significant as well as emerging artists, and to provide regionalplatforms for innovative curatorial perspectives. Meanwhile, OAF supports and encourages the localart development by art educational projects, share art with the community and make it an importantrole in daily life. Even today, while the arts from Asia have become increasingly visible both withinthis part of the world, and globally, the exchanges between artists in Asia are too often mediated byglobal centres in Europe and North America. OAF recognizes that more needs to be done to developthe cultural conversations happening within Asia.
Osage Art Foundation is part of the Osage Group encompassing the Osage Gallery, Osage ArtConsultancy and Osage Design. Please visit www.oaf.cc for more information.

Presented by:Venue sponsored by:A program part ofLe French May:www.murnomade.comwww.oaf.ccwww.osagegallery.comwww.frenchmay.comIllustration:Left: Régis Gonzalez in his studio and details of two artworks. Right: Tsang Chui Mei in her studio and details of two artworks.
Images courtesy of the artists and Mur Nomade.

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