紅白藍無字天書

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- Size: 30 cm (L) x 20.5 cm (W) 

- Binding:  pages

- Author: Stanley Wong (anothermountainman)

- Color : Red , White , Blue


In 2001, Wong began a collection of artwork named Building Hong Kong, the most famous component of which was the Red White Blue series. Red White Blue was a re-creation of red-white-blue bags which are commonly used among Hong Kong people.

Commenting on the motive behind Building Hong Kong, Wong said that the series of artwork was created at a time when negative sentiment was rife in Hong Kong culture, and he wanted his artwork to make Hongkongers proud of the Hong Kong identity. He said his fascination with red-white-blue bags began during a trip to Soho, London in 1988. He saw a red-white-blue bag on display in an up-end fashion shop and realised that the lowly red-white-blue bag would make a good symbol of Hong Kong's "regional identity". He hoped that the series would evoke the resilience of 1960s Hong Kong.

Another Mountain Man and red-white-blue art came to fame in Hong Kong as the result of a 2004 concert series by singer Samuel Hui, in which he wore a red-white-blue costume designed by Wong.

A Red White Blue exhibition was held in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in 2004–05. Liu Nga Ying of Lingnan University commented that this exhibition set the tone of subsequent uses of the red-white-blue motif in Hong Kong public art, writing that it suggested "a fixed and unitary notion of Hong Kong working class identity through the works’ construction of idealised and nostalgic spaces in Hong Kong."

The series represented Hong Kong in the 2005 Venice Biennale. RTHK considered Red White Blue as Wong's most notable work, and posed the question "between Red White Blue and Another Mountain Man, is there an equal sign?" In 2012, Red White Blue won the Design For Asia Award.

In 2013, Wong's Show Flat 04 was exhibited at the Third-Floor – Hermès gallery in Orchard Road, Singapore. The exhibition featured a Red White Blue-themed show home.