The Verve of Light and Shadow

The Verve of Light and Shadow
Master Photographers Tchan Fou-li, kan Hing-fook, Leo Wong


The Hong kong Heritage Museum is launching a thematic exhibition about iconic local photographers. The exhibition is impressive both on the artworks and the way how the exhibitiond curated.


The three photographic masters show us their individual styles and creative pursuits.


Tchan Fou-li, his photos show, on the one hand, the poetic sentiment of Chinese paintings and classic verse; on the other hand, his concern about the lives and fate of the working class.













kan Hing Fook, has explored new photographic and digital techniques to widen his scope and assist his creation. Those waterlilies that he shot reminds me the painting of those of Monet, that's impressive!



Leo Wong, with his training on Chinese painting and Chinese literary classics, shows with his expressiveness through powerful brushwork to present his feeling about the contrast of the nature: movement and stillness, prosperity and decline, fullness and emptiness.


In the level of curatorial sense, I think it is good to have 3 sets of LCD monitor to display artists' video. From the display, we can have a deeper understanding to the behind concepts of the photographers.

The Year of Ox @ Taipei Airport

My last visit to Taipei, I could find an interesting exhibition at the Taipei International Airport, which is an exhibition about the Year of Ox, Year of 2009. Participated students from primary and secondary schools needed to design their images of Ox in order to celebrate 2009. From their design I can see quite a different cultures of Taiwan students from those of Hong kong. Their choices of images were full of Chinese traditional colours and patterns, representing an agricultural-based society.

However, its intention on putting this exhibition at the most internationalized place--the international airport at Taipei, showing its ambitions on introducing Chinese and Taiwan cultural characteristics to people from all over the world. Finally I can see its successful as it really attracts tones of people to appreciate and talk about it.

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Sotheby Auction 2009 Spring

Few weeks ago, I have visited the Sotheby Auction 2009 Spring. I still remember I had once a student helper worked for the Sotheby many years ago! I just find that the nature of Sotheby has changed a lot. It is more emphasised on Contemporary Asian Art than that in 15 years ago. From this change, I can realize the hot items in the art market, especially the contemporary Chinese art. Moreover the high price of some artworks makes me feel shock that I just think that in the world of Capitalism, the

influence of art market will undoubtedly affect artists' art creation.

Oasis Mirage

I have been visited a Hong Kong International Sculpture Symposium 2009 – Oasis Mirage on 15 March 2009 which was held at the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade. The Art Promotion Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department is teaming up with the Hong Kong Sculpture Society to present the above activity.

The Curator, Maggie Leung, introduced the rationale of the whole program. A total of 14 artists come from different places including Czech Republic, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Bangladesh, USA, Chengdu, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong. They use marble, wood and other materials side by side on the site to create sculptures on the theme of ‘Oasis Mirage”. This is originally a program that all artists stationed together at the West KowloonWaterfront Promenade and created their artworks. In between, all citizens and school visits were welcome to view the whole process. During the demonstrations, the public were supposed to able viewing all the stages involved in sculptural creation – all the way from the shaping, through the detailing to the finishing – and have opportunity to talk to sculptors who hail from different cultures. In addition to the demonstrations, the Symposium were supposed to feature a series of activities including an exhibition, talks, guided tours and workshops.After the creations of artworks, exhibits were remained at the place for the public.

However, in the exhibition, only sculptures with simple description, such as the name of author, the title of the sculpture and the used of materials can be found in the Symposium. There was no sign of workshop at all. This is just a general sculpture exhibition, which make me feel disappointed. People can hardly feel the workshops if they had not joined it. As a conclusion, the above Symposium did not really meet the target they aimed. For art promotion, they should put more afford on it in order to make it more details.

The Curator, Maggie Leung has provided rich information about this program