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The Fun of the Fair

FROG KING (KWOK MANG-HO)

10 CHANCERY LANE GALLERY

legend in his hometown of Hong Kong, conceptual and performance artist Kwok Mang-ho is better known by his alter ego—Frog King. Kwok began his career as an ink painter—he was taught by New Ink pioneer Lui Shou-kwan—but quickly broke free from tradition and began making multi-media installations and devising elaborate performances, many of which involve fire. He honed his visual language in New York in the 1980s—when he worked as

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