Malaysian Artist – Hong Yi ( Red )

              Hong Yi is a Malaysian artist-architech who goes by the nickname Red. She was given the nickname due to her surname Hong pronouns like the word “red” in Mandarin. She is known as the artist who loves to paint but without using a paintbrush. Her artwork have been featured by media around the world such as Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CNN, NBC and the Daily Mail. Her artwork have been viewed by millions people around the world via Youtube and Youku.

Her artwork impress the world and many of the company invited her to work with them. She has worked with Hewlett Packard, Unilever, AT&T, Mercedes Benz, Nespresso, Astro and Esquire. She was invited as a presenter at the 6th and 7th EG Conference in Monterey, California, at TEDxkl 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, at the APEC Young Entrepreneur’s Summit 2013 in Beijing, and lectured in design universities Domus Academy and NABA in Milan. She was named Esquire Magazine’s ’12 Brilliant Malaysians’ of 2013 and given Perspective Global Hong Kong’s 2013 ’40 Under 40 Designers’ award. Hong Yi currently runs her own design studio. She lives and work between Shanghai and Malaysia. I'm also one of the person who impress by Hong Yi's artwork. I watched her awesome artwork on Youtube too. She likes to use the materials around her to create a beautiful art especially food.
                                     

Hong Yi famous artwork which she used coffee cup stains to paint a portrait of Taiwan Super Star Jay Chou. This project was inspired by the opening and closing lines in Jay Chou’s song. The project took about12 hours to finish. “ Coffee is quite a challenging medium to use – too little water and the rings wouldn’t form easily, too much water and the rings would blend into each other, resulting in just a deformed pool of coffee. I had to also wait for the lighter parts too dry up before stamping on the darker rings, or else the rings would not be visible.” Hong Yi said.

Her another awesome artwork is the portrait of China basketball player Yao Ming by a basketball dipped into red paint. The process of this paint was filmed and uploaded onto the internet in January 2012 and have been watched by millions all over the world.

            “HP challenged me to do an art project using ONE HP Ink Advantage Cartridge, ONE HP printer, and 1500 sheets of A4 paper. Like my previous art projects, I kept to using ordinary, every objects as my medium. In this case, I chose to use FEATHERS – which became the title of my art project.” Said by Hong Yi

         This project was done by scanning a handful of feathers, then arranging them out differently each time. The 1500 sheets of paper are then laid out and taped together, and installed with the design and mechanics like a giant fan, revealing a giant dove that looks like it is flying out from the printer, to inspire everyone to let their creativity soar, especially in situations that seem impossible or too hard.

This project is also made into a 30 second commercial, and will be shown in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and China. Shot in Pudong, Shanghai.

In my opinion, art is without barrier. Art can be in any kind of form with no right and wrong. Art have different point of view from everyone. For me, art is a kind of creativity, is a visual form of satisfaction. Hong Yi create her own artwork in her point of view in art. Her artwork impress a lot of people around the world. Her success bring a positive impact to design industry. Look forward to her new artwork.