Faporpor: Dancing with Flower

EVENT DESCRIPTION

13a The New Street Art Gallery will present the “Dancing with Flowers” solo exhibition of Fapopo from January 20 to February 12, with more than 30 works on display. The exhibition is full of a strong New Year atmosphere, and the main axis of the exhibition is the Maneki Cat, people and the most recognizable flower works. The artistic attainments of Fapopo are like those of the Hong Kong version of Yayoi Kusama and the female version of Zeng Zaochai. She is like Zeng Zaochai on the wall and under the ground, graffiti with a huge creative brush of personal style. She is also known as the Hong Kong version of Yayoi Kusama. Fapopo created a unique style of painting and painted the same things in the same work with her talent of self-taught. Such an artistic collision has brought fresh impressions.

The origin of the name “Fapopo” comes from Fapopo’s predestination with flowers when she was young. She likes flowers very much and sells flowers at the Mongkok Flower Market to support her family. Fapopo’s creative medium is not limited to plane or canvas. She likes to paint her works on different daily necessities, and most of them are objects that have been abandoned in the garbage station, such as the flat-bottomed wok for cooking, the suitcase for travel, the classic yellow plastic duck, etc…. All of them are Fapopo’s canvas. Fapopo’s colorful and vivid color matching and highly unique painting style are combined with those ordinary life products, so that we can see a familiar and novel scenery.

Fapopo started her career as a painter at the age of 80. She learns painting by herself with great talent, and her high level of familiarity with flowers makes her works vivid. The subject matter of her creation is not only flowers, but also other birds and animals will appear in her works, and all of them are lifelike. Fapopo, she likes flowers very much. She can see flowers in almost every moment of her life. She said, “She will spend the rest of her time thanking flowers”. Art is just a gift to thank flowers. When I was a child, Fapopo already liked painting, but she had to wait for the opportunity because of the family environment.

This exhibition is on the occasion of the Lunar New Year. In order to match the atmosphere of the Lunar New Year, Fapopo specially uses the Maneki Cat, flowers and people. Fortune cats and flowers have always been traditional items in the New Year, implying different blessings. Let’s all bathe in the blessings in the new year. The Chinese New Year is also a time for families to get together. There is a kind of happiness called reunion. Every big festival, people always sincerely hope to enjoy a good time with their dearest family and friends. Whether adults, children, or the elderly are a blessing in the family, and every moment you have in the family is equally important. To integrate art into life, Fapopo is definitely such an artist of “sticking to the ground”. From her hand, she can let the abandoned things reappear, let art close to life, and let art bloom in life.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Fapopo began to learn painting by herself at the age of 80. Fapopo's artistic attainments are like the Hong Kong version of Yayoi Kusama. She likes painting as the medium of painting, and can still keep the feeling of bright as new even after the outdoor wind and rain. Fapopo was deeply interested in painting when she was 7 years old, but she has been unable to develop her interest organically due to the family economic environment. Until retirement, the pace of life began to slow down. In 2014, she held a personal exhibition list in the mall. This is the first time that Fapopo exhibited her works in the gallery as an artist. Fapopo’s style of painting with a sense of time and bold and bright colors, and she painted on different vessels in an unconventional way. The works are full of memories!