藝術交談:王無邪的水墨畫歷程 Wucius Wong’s Innovations in Ink - Capturing Quintessential Hong Kong

2024年3月18日

Language: English with Chinese and English subtitles.
語言:英語(附有中、英文字幕)

In this Yuen Campus Lecture Series program, renowned international artist Wucius Wong is reunited with paintings he created over six decades earlier as he was experimenting with ink in Hong Kong.

Mark Barnekow, Executive Director of the University of Chicago, Francis and Rose Yuen Campus Hong Kong, interviews the artist as the two reflect upon Hong Kong as subject of Wong’s paintings in the 1950s-1970s, the cultural ethos of place, and the emerging artistic influencers and movements in Hong Kong long since past. Mr. Wong shares his reflections of Hong Kong from a time when the city was transitioning from quaint port town to mega-city. The two discuss contrasts between Hong Kong’s explosive growth and the United States as well as the influences of the post-war American art scene on Wong’s career.

Speaker: Wucius Wong (Artist & Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Professor Wucius Wong was born in 1936 in Guangdong Province, China. He worked as assistant curator at the City Museum and Art Gallery and principal lecturer at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic from 1967 to 1984. He received the John D. Rockefeller Fund Grant in 1971, and the Emeritus Fellowship of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1998. The Hong Kong Museum of Art presented his retrospective exhibition in 2006, and the Hong Kong SAR Government honored him with the Bronze Bauhinia Star Medal in 2007. He is also the only visual artist honored with the Life Achievement Award from the HK Arts Development Council in 2016 which is the top award from the Council. He is currently Adjunct Professor of the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, expert adviser to the Leisure and Culture Department, committee member of the Chinese Painting Institute in Beijing, and founding chairman of the Chinese Painting Institute in Hong Kong. He concentrates on creating ink paintings which have been widely collected by museums in Hong Kong, China, Europe, America, and Australia.

Moderator: Mark Barnekow (Executive Director, The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong)

Read more about the programme here: https://bit.ly/33asf6H

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