Two exhibitions
dal 6/2/2004 al 14/3/2004
Segnalato da
6/2/2004
Two exhibitions
University Museum and Art Gallery - UMAG, Hong Kong
The Museum simultaneously presents two exhibitions on the theme of nostalgia in an age of urban anxiety. 'Brilliant Tranquility': Paintings by Szeto Lap will feature some thirty paintings in oils, watercolour, and charcoal by the Paris-based artist. The exhibition 'A Shared Space': Figure Paintings by Yin Xiong, Cui Xiaodong and He Hongzhou.
Brilliant Tranquility: Paintings by Szeto Lap
7 February to 14 March 2004
A Shared Space: Figure Paintings by Yin Xiong, Cui Xiaodong and He Hongzhou
7 February to 17 March 2004
The University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong is
pleased to mark the Year of the Monkey by continuing its focus on
contemporary Chinese oil painting. The Museum is simultaneously presenting
two exhibitions on the theme of nostalgia in an age of urban anxiety. In
the Museum's Fung Ping Shan Building, the exhibition "Brilliant Tranquility:
Paintings by Szeto Lap" will be on view from 7 February to 14 March 2004,
after completing a tour of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing in
Mainland China. The exhibition will feature some thirty paintings in oils,
watercolour, and charcoal by the Paris-based artist, Szeto Lap.
Born in 1949, Szeto Lap studied Fine Arts in Guangzhou before moving to Hong
Kong in 1972. In 1975 he emigrated to Paris, France where he has lived ever
since. He is currently Honorary Professor at the China Academy of Art in
Hangzhou, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and the Shanghai Normal University.
Szeto excels in painting calm and tranquil still life and landscape
paintings. His still lifes reveal a nostalgia for his homeland in the
depiction of isolated symbols of his cultural heritage while his landscapes
convey a poetic mood reflecting the artist's desire for greater communion
with nature.
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In the Museum's T. T. Tsui Building, the exhibition "A Shared Space: Figure
Paintings by Yin Xiong, Cui Xiaodong and He Hongzhou" will concentrate on
the element that is always implied but never present in Szeto's work: man.
These three artists are graduates of Hangzhou's prestigious China Academy of
Art with which this exhibition is a co-presentation. Each of these artists
explore their experiences of urban life through their figure paintings of
disaffected and alienated individuals who lament all that has been lost in
urban living and the advent of the digital age. By adhering to the
techniques of realism, these artists are making a statement rejecting the
dominance of this way of life and harking back to a simpler more real way of
life. Almost fifty oil paintings will be on view.
The Museum opening hours are Monday to Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.;
Sundays 1:30-5:30 p.m. The Museum is closed on public holidays and the
university holiday on 16 March. Admission is free. All are welcome.
Image:"Yin Xiong". Work No. 5, 2003. Oil on canvas 174 x 95 cm
University Museum and Art Gallery
94 Bonham Road, Pokfulam - Hong Kong
tel 2241-5513