Am a fan of John Clang's work. Have seen quite a few of works and he is definitely a good photographer and presents interesting works.
This time he presented works about memories/ impressions. He used photographs and projected them, used charcoal to draw the image with the projected image to guide him to create a drawing / impression. Then he photographed it and printed it onto aluminium.
Was an interesting concept. He definitely has good concepts. But he isn't quite a good 'drawer' and the eventual result wasn't really that good. Think as of today only one was sold, think it was the 'Bird's eye view of an eternal sunshine' and this one didn't include any figurative drawing but a landscape. Hence the lack of finesse in his drawing ability isn't obvious.
He also showed video projections onto a postcard size paper. Was ok only. Pizza Queen wasn't too impressed.
Points for Collectors: John Clang is a buy / Strong buy rating. But I would give this series a miss. Another thing is that either the Gallery/ Artist has decided on tier edition pricing. The pieces come in 3 editions and 2 AP. The first is the cheapest and the price goes up as more is sold. Not a fan of this system. Think it's more useful for commercial photographers to earn more money on their nicer pieces. i.e everybody loves photographer A's picture of a rose, so that is in demand and he sells more and because its more popular /nice he can earn more from it. And also sort of limits the run of the work by increasing price and lowering demand. Anyway you can read a lot more of this discussion, i.e. pros and cons on the net. Interesting read here and another one here about Peter Lik's photography. I don't mind if the prices go up with time as the artist's stature progresses, think this would be a better way to go. It's also the way I feel when an artist prices works of the same size differently.
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