Comics, glass, MDF and mixed media
Robbers have long been romanticized as extraordinary figures embodying an aesthetics and philosophy of crime. They represent symbols of absolute freedom and indulgence in a non-real world — elusive fugitives who evade pursuit, disappear into hidden corners, and act beyond the constraints of law and society.
A Study on Criminal Aesthetics Series merges the heroic spirit and philosophical core of Chinese kung fu comics with the gritty circumstances of crime cinema. By intertwining these two seemingly distant visual languages, he extracts an aesthetics of transgression and a philosophy of freedom. Stripped of moral judgment, the works celebrate the unrestrained imagination inherent in these outlaw figures — a shared human dream of breaking free from the suffocating structures of contemporary life.
Through this hybrid collage practice, Tang highlights the widening gap between our over-crowded, rule-bound modern existence and the liberating realm of the imaginative. The series transforms criminal imagery into something lyrical and contemplative, inviting viewers to reflect on the tension between societal order and the deep-seated desire for untrammelled liberty.
一些帶有負面價值的人物往往被作家、導演等描繪成具強烈個性的角色，就如強盜被刻劃成擁有著特殊犯罪美學及哲學思想的超凡人物；又或被形容為劫富濟貧、鋤強扶弱的俠義之士。不論何者，自由及放縱可說是強盜在虛構世界的代名詞，尤在現今擁擠及體制化的社會，更突顯都市人所缺乏，以至所憧憬的奔放思維。
我嘗試將漫畫裡中國的武俠世界結合電影中強盜的犯罪場景，以古代的武俠情義引申其美學及哲學，跟現代社會繁瑣及想象間的生活作一對照。
