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 affo
rd on it in order to make it more details.
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 affo
rd on it in order to make it more details.
The Curator, Maggie Leung has provided rich information about this program
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