Chow Chun Fai at Klein Sun Gallery

Hong Kong artist Chow Chun Fai paints stills from Hong Kong films, including this distillation of loneliness from Wong Kar-wai’s 1994 classic Chung King Express. Filmed just three years before Hong Kong’s return to China, the movie is about failed relationships and new beginnings, a position that interests Chow Chun Fai as Hong Kong heads towards socialist governance by 2047. (At Klein Sun Gallery in Chelsea through Nov 12th).

Chow Chun Fai, Chungking Express – Tears, oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 59 inches, 2016.
Chow Chun Fai, Chungking Express – Tears, oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 59 inches, 2016.