A piece of calligraphy written by The King of Kowloon, Tsang Tsou Choi, has been sold at Sotheby's Contemporary Asian Art spring sale at HK$170,000, being the top seller among all work by contemporary Hong Kong artists.
Whether Tsang's calligraphy is ART has long been a controversy. It reminds me of the discussion about aesthetic significance and aesthetic value. Does it have its significance as claimed that "a work of art always has aesthetic significance"?
To me, the calligraphy itself is more like an artefact which exhibits his undying pursuit of his "lost royal identity" or as a reminiscence of the city undergoing British colonial period and the handover to China, it shows great originality and enthusiasm but I would only appreciate it if it is exhibited in the first-hand context, such as on the lamp posts, electrical boxes etc. I just can't imagine the work being posted on the wall of someone's living room. The whole thing is simply out-of-context.
I'd rather appreciate his past vandalism as a kind of behavorial art.
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