Currently based at the University of Iowa, where he is working on his MFA, Kwok Pong “Bobby” Tso is an artist whose work shows a curiosity about form and the relationship between objects. He notes in his artist statement:
“My works enrich the nature and weight of materials. By producing a clear and concise space, I am able to create a connection in the relationship between one object to another. This connection is a metaphor to express the importance of this miscellaneous, compact relationship, using reduction, negation and clarification to achieve a simplified composition.”
Tso operates in a realm we at CFile like to call “fictional science.” He creates works which look like highly technical machines pulled from the future, and yet they are purely imagination. We’d caution Tso on his use of color, though. The colors we’ve seen risk making the works too facile, too Fisher-Price for comfort.
Above image: Bobby Tso, a work from the Moment of “Re”inventing series. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
Bobby Tso, objects from the Moment of “Re”inventing series. Tso states that this body of work stems from his desire to take apart something known and reconstruct it into the unknown.
Bobby Tso, Breath of Space, 2013, white earthenware, plastic, metal, wood. This is from the Knowing the Unknown series. Tso states he attempted to produce a clear and concise space to achieve a simplified composition. All photographs courtesy of the artist.
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