art/ 藝術• life style/ 生活• fashion/ 潮流• book/ 閱讀• attitude/ 態度• movie/ 電影• music/ 音樂• food culture/ 飲食文化JUly 2005 a.m.post: a.m.gallery artist: Xu Bing 徐冰 title: 天書A Book from the Sky 1987-1991 material: 混合素材裝置Mixed media, installation am gallery artist: Ren Jian 任戩 title: 元化 [局部]Primeval Chaos [Partial] 1986 -1987 material: 水墨布本紙裱橫披Ink on polyester mounted on paper, horizontal scroll july 2005 a.m. post: fifteen
a for art/ 香港創意藝術教育空間
Space of Creative Art-Education in Hong Kong 1-9 m for manifestation/ dialogue/
由五官開始的藝術教育 * 11-15 art education/
大專藝術教育 EXTRA* 16 文化藝術 @ 副學士課程 *
文化藝術副學士課程及文化講座 * 17 visual/ 看不見的歷史重任：由博物館的收藏開始
The Invisible Historical responsibility: the Museum Collections 19-23
東方印象：錢納利繪畫展 * 24-26
蔚藍海岸與海報藝術 * 28-29
給香港的禮物 * 32-34
i-tist Chu ：攝影師朱德華 * 36 performance/
戲文世界裡的 [長今] 美 * 38-39 華格納、拜萊特點滴
On Wagner’s [Ring] Cycle 40-41 樂迷囈語/
港樂的新樂季繽紛燦爛 42-43 snapshot/
文人品味視覺 44-45 life style/
一杯咖啡．一室維港．一齣傾城之戀 * 46-47 book/ 城市漂流
Drifting City 48-49 music/ 法式新浪漫
New French Romance – Benjamin Biolay 50-51 city culture/
在心中呼喚世界的愛 * 52 film/ 日本映畫中的消費貓狗
Consuming Cats and Dogs in Japanese Cinema 54-56
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國際藝術新聞 57
local Express/ 58
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radio/ 60 HKPC special issue/
香港生產力促進局教育課程專刊 61-68
*Please note that for articles with solely Chinese titles above, there are Chinese version only. ∂ a for art/ ∂-Space of Creative Art-Education in Hong Kong text/ editorial
New Space for Creative Art Education
Art can be regarded as Eve of enlightenment while education as ribs of society. Sadly, in Hong Kong a strange place, blending art with education becomes something undesirable. But as our government strongly advocates creative industry at last, some brand new art-education form is gradually budding and trying to develop...
The buildings and schools shouldn’t only be used to tell you which tycoons have donated how much money to education. It should also be a space of education with unique design and atmosphere. It should cope with the people and things happening inside to generate synergy effect, a term management love to throw. You could see the well-ordered Tsing Hua University producing excellent engineers and scientists, and a Chinese garden like style Peking University breeding arts masters. A good education space should be able to capture the students and helps them wholeheartedly fall into the academic world. This is especially important for cultural, arts and design subjects which require students to have passion and sentiment. In the coming years there several art and design education space will be ready for you. You are now invited to take have a trip in them through words and see if you would also be captured by any of them.
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[ ] Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts – School of Film and Television 80 1984 2000 2003
1875 HKAPA was the first and the only performing arts tertiary institute in Hong Kong. It was found in the most fabulous days of Hong Kong entertainment business. Now the number of student is already saturated in the campus. Some say the students sometimes don’t even have enough space for their [ practices and need to do their practice in other venues. The Architectural Services Department therefore ] granted The Bethanie as their second campus when they were planning the future use of this historical building group. HKAPA will use it as classrooms and library of their School of Film and Television. Apart form practical uses The Bethanie should also be an excellent place for shooting films. It is not easy to find chapel, cowshed and old buildings like those in The Bethanie in other parts of Hong Kong. It should be a place that could stimulate the creativity of the students of HKAPA. There are suggestions that the Central Police Station should be rebuilt to be an arts institute, and if The Bethanie do it The Bethanie was built in 1875. Originally it was a health resort forsuccessfully it should be a good example. missionaries and elderly. Later the Hong Kong University Press used it as books storage. Mr. Philip Liao (First-running up in the West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition) was hired as the architect in charge of the reconstruction. In planning the site could also has a theatre and a exhibition hall for performing arts and a museum for the history of the Bethanie. Apart from the chapel there are also buildings with many rooms that will be suitable for building studios.
New Space for Creative Art Education
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Daniel Libeskind’s first building had already shocked the public. When he built the Berlin Jewish Museum he used deconstruction’s labyrinth- like languages to represent the Jewish spirit, and the building is now a masterpiece of architecture. In year 2003 he was also appointed as the architect in charge of [Grand Zero] in New York, the reconstruction of the site once the Twin Tower located. It immediately became a issue in the field of reconstruction. Now we got Libeskind for our City University building and he deserve respect of the same level as other architect stars like Roman Foster or Frank Gehry. Moreover Libeskind is one of those who care about not only the form but also the relation between language of building and meaning.
We can see students from School of Creative Media of CUHK winning several awards in the recent years’ ifva animation section. It should be a prove of their success. Applying to The University Grants Committee for a new building, CUHK was granted 550 million dollars to build the first building of creative media in Asia. It should be ready in four years and the university will spend 200 million more to build public facilities like screening room. After an invitation of bids around the world, Studio Daniel Libeskind will be the architect of this plan. The current design of the building by Libeskind looks like an irregular crystal of cement with pieces of sharp objects pointing out of the surface. When looking at the building in different angles there are interesting and surprising observations. Sometimes it looks like a triangle breaks the wall and sometimes looks like a cylinder inserting into the building. It is symbolizing the [Out-of-the box thinking] of creative industry. The new building’s design will be modern and utilizing space. It would be a landmark of Hong Kong digital art in the future. Libeskind’s designs are always controversial and the about design is still a primary product. We should be looking forward to the last product.
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2001 ( Art Education ) At meantime, The Chinese University of Hong Kong is the only tertiary institute providing degree of traditional arts like paint and sculpture. In community the Arts School of Hong Kong Arts Centre also has Fine Arts degree started from 1998. Now they have graduates of 5 years averaging 40 per year. The Professor Chung Ling said that Hong Kong Baptist University will also start a new degree of Visual Arts to provide more opportunity in althrough the new building will not be ready until 2008, thethis field. HKBU will spend about 224 million dollars to build a new building near their Shaw campus for Department of Visual Arts will startboth Department of Visual Arts and School of Communication. teaching in the coming September. For the first year they will takeTo make the new building to a suitable place of art and cultural education, Professor Chung and about 40 students, and there aremanagement of HKBU visited several arts institutions with reputation in The States to learn from their always more than 400 peopleallocation of space. For example Professor Chung saw that many of them put the painting studio at the applying through JUPAS. Before the new building is finished HKBU willtop floor so that students could paint under sunlight. This could let the students enjoy sunshine while rent an old building new the Kaithey are drawing as well as giving them a more direct contact with colors under sunshine. Actually neon Tak Airport as temporary campus.lights use to make colours greener than they look and colours have wider spectrum under sunlight. Also According to reports, the government is going to rent the ex-they look different in sunny and cloudy days. Maybe ordinary people couldn’t recognize these little Police Investigation Training Schooldifferences and do not take it serious, but colours are the base elements of every arts form and these at No.51, Kwun Tong Road toslight differences might have decisive influences. Every painter has their own unique colour spectrum. HKBU. This building was built in 1934 and was once theDetail design of teaching environment is taking a very important role in student’s future artistic accommodation of British Royal Aircreations. Professor Chung emphasized that they will use these observations in the design of the new Force. In 1978 it was handed backbuilding. The should be one more space breeding artists in the near future. to the government and was used as a police training school until 2001. It was a first-class historical building. According to Professor Chung the building will contain full facilities including studios for painting, sculptures, photography and ceramics.
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The three architectures mentioned above are all university campuses, but arts and cultural education could not be limited to tertiary level. The Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC) is preparing a high school emphasizing creativity. The school campus will be ready at year 2007, but they will rent a temporary campus and start teaching at September 2006. Hong Kong architect Rocco Yim will be in charge of the construction. His design will focus on encouraging communication between teachers, students and the public by using opening and flowing spaces.
HKICC believes that a space suitable for creative education should be a space with diversity and [ openness. It should allow innovation and experiments, and with sufficient resources to encourage multi- ] media and broader-crossing interactions. It should also establish a system for students and instructors to share their ideas and information, and also with the society and the world. To fit these criteria, the [ ] design of School of Creativity will contain mainly two parts: the learning area and the community area. [career oriented] The campus will contain professional digital equipments. It also contains venue for arts and multi-media performances, conferences and education activities. They could also be venue for students to announce their output. School of Creativity would also like to be the exchange centre of local arts and creative groups. The theatre is already planning activities like artists-in-resident, workshop, multi-media performances and cultural exhibition, conferences and meetings. All these could widen the students’School of Creativity will acquire 210 students for the first year, and the horizon and more chances of practical works. school is designed to accommodate about 1000 students. Applications Arts is actually something that should be educated as earlier as possible. Hope there will be Primary are considered according to School of Creativity and Kindergarten of Creativity later in Hong Kong. interviews and students’ portfolios and extra-curricular activities experience, though their main concern is the students’ potential to develop creativity. Since the school will be subsidized by government student will still take HKCEE and HKAL, though they will only take 5- 7 subject which is fewer comparing to 8 in normal schools. If students do not consider tertaiary education after they graduate, the school can arrange career-oriented subjects like computer graphics, video editing etc. for students. They could even be arranged to continue study in community schools. Now the main task of the School of Creativity is to arrange students’ future in design and multi-media related degrees in universities.
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Space for alternative art-education
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In ∂ we focused on hardware and did not go deep into the teaching concepts and contents. Many details are still on the discussion table. Though hardware usually depends on the possibility and creativity a space shows. We need both [big and small] in art educations, beginning from big matters and go deep into small matters. Besides the future big school buildings there are already small but promising art education spaces in practice. They are important references of alternatives. It becomes alternative because it is not accepted by mainstream. Alternative is not a banner. Instead, it is the word ‘bravery’ printed on it. Bravery is not trying carelessly, while it needs foresight looking beyond the present constraint to exploit new rooms. For art education people, bravery is of foremost important. The following organizations can be regarded as art pioneers. Following areas are lullaby for creativity.
8/F Platform Hong Kong Dance Company
Address 8/F Platform, 8/F Sheung Wan Municipal Building, 345 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong Tel 2851 3607 / Mr.Tsang 92810745 / 31031880 Website http://www.hkdance.com/
Hong Kong Dance Company transforms the rehearsal studio on 8th floor into an experimental theatre where creativity, performance, education, demonstration, audience building and cultivation of a base of Chinese dancers can flourish. 8/F Platform serves as a platform for contemporary cultural dance. Its first performance is King of Fairy Tales, in memory of the bicentenary birth of Hans Christian Andersen. The dance performance tells his dramatic, touching fairy tales which nurture the hearts of children and grow with them. Like the stories it tells this space is like a flower growing in the kids’ heart.
6 110 Address G/F, 110 Shatin Pass Road, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel 2328 9205 Website No. 7 Rehearsal Studio http://www.ccdc.com.hk/2005/ City Contemporary Dance Company
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City Contemporary Dance Company is the founder of Hong Kong contemporary dance. Springing from Wong Tai Sin, they concerned the education of contemporary dance long time ago and established the CCDC Dance Centre in 2004. The Centre extends its education in the past, outreach dance education, outreach projects, community performance and art promotion projects. They refurbished its Wong Tai Sin centre, built up a newly experimental rehearsal studio and also a theme Café – Dance Café. CCDC embarks in becoming a significant landmark of Hong Kong contemporary dance. The centre’s activities and facilities shorten the distance between audiences and artists and create a setting for active forum, sharing and information exchange. Partnership Programme becomes one of the future development focuses. The Programme is to utilize its area, management and production expertise in order to provide rooms and support for both individual dance artists and dance communities.
They also establish a place called No. 7 Rehearsal Studio, a little theatre over ten years old once transformed into a technical workshop as well as storage room. Now after renovation, it becomes a small venue as a touchstone for our new generation dance creation where creativity can fly to the sky. Lighting equipment is added to provide comprehensive support. You can see CCDC shows its passion to nurture our young generation. Even you are a busy person you should go and drink a cup of coffee, or even better to dance for a while.
PIP PIP School Theatre Ensemble 2003
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Theatre Ensemble is very young, established in 2003. But its founding chairmen as well as art directors 2 6 Jim Chim and Olivia Yan are experienced artists, taught by theatre masters David Glass and PhilippeAddress 6/F, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Konag Gaulier respectively. Now with the alliance of Jim, he blends his more than ten years essence of Tel 2421 6176 experience, creation, teaching, research and practice to found PIP School. All the basics of the art Website education course aim at Pleasure In Play. Jim and Olivia are convinced that passing on art starts fromhttp://www.theatreensemble.com/ inspiring, nurturing and circulating Pleasure; breaks the bondage of mundane life, excites imagination and creativity to fly and spring.
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PIP differs from mainstream art schools. It has unique training system. It is a joyful and innovative approach supplementing with lively interaction, experience and workshop as major learning styles. Teaching is step by step from easy to advance, disregarding rigid theory and teaching format. PIP art courses of year 04 and 05 are divided into ‘Life Art’, ‘Professional Performing Art’ and ‘Children Art’. This summer holiday, they will organize the first Kid Fest, letting parents to bring their kids into a musical theatre world in 40 days. Here is not only kids’ paradise but also parents’ soul resting place.
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63 7 Address Unit 7, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, Tokwawan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel 2503 1630 Website http://www.oanandon.org.hk/ On & On Theatre Workshop
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Formerly in To Kwa Wan Art Village Ngau Pang Sue Yuen was founded where it could be regarded as alternative education paradigm. However it closed at last. Locating in the same place, On & On Theatre Workshop still endeavors to art education. For years they have been organizing ‘i-D Children’ project. Last year they organized a big series of workshops. There was also a youth theatre show ‘Natural High~~’, ‘Street Live’ performed in 13 places all over Hong Kong; the slogan of last year ‘Baa~ Creativity’ is ‘No spending. No rigid artistic form’, aiming at mobilizing participants to bring creativity into daily life. That’s why the ensemble named ‘On & On’. Though recently they have fewer workshops and more performances, but their director workshops are still a rare chance for directors to exchange ideas, to deepen their experiences and performances to share with audiences. They still hold small workshop from time to time and you should keep an eye on this theatre if you are interested.
Loft Stage The Nonsensemakers
202-204 [ ] 8 B Loft Stage [ ] Address Block B, 8/F, Chinachem Industrial Mansion, 202-204 Choi Hung Road, Diamond Hill, Kowloon Tel 9209 1973 [ ] Website http://www.nonsensemakers.comTheir banner is not sharply attractive while it’s tiny and to promote caring for youth, relaxing life and to gather audiences of individual theatre ensembles. The Nonsensemakers bases at a studio, ‘Soft Stage’, in a Diamond Hill’s factory. Walking from MTR station, passing by Tai Hom Village and taking bulky and slow factory elevator, the journey becomes an indispensable part of their theatre life; they also invite audiences coming for a drink and sharing, hoping to improve their work. Art education could be everywhere.
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[ ] 63 25 Address 25 Cattle Depot Artists The Black Box Exercise – dark and mysterious but with enriched meaning. Among all art groups in HongVillage, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Kong, the most organized, strategic, forefront and mystical is Zuni Icosahedron. A workshop “The Black Tel 2893 8704 Box Exercise” is co-organized by Zuni and over a hundred schools from Hong Kong and Macau. Every Website www.zuni.org.hk student makes his/ her own device in a little black box which acts as the connection between the outer world and the student. The project boosts their confidence in expressing art and helps them to explore the artistic world. Since the participants can direct, deconstruct and reform their work, the black box is becoming bigger and the project is developing. It is even expending to school overseas. Zuni’s workshops are also penetrating into Hong Kong’s education system. Recently their multi-media workshop held under the help of different schools.
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We have talked about much art education spaces of performing arts. Actually there are also independent visual art education spaces in Hong Kong, for example the Pottery Workshop in Fringe Club. It is an important workshop of Hong Kong ceramics teaching not only techniques but also attitudes. They constantly hold exhibitions of outstanding ceramics of student outputs as well as those from oversea visitors. Even you don’t want to learn you could come and watch. The Kaleidoscope Studio teaching glass art is also a place you shouldn’t miss. Art is always something you should try by your hands instead of just watch.
Poetery Workshop
Address 2 Lower Albert Rd., Central. Club 64 12 Wing Wah Lane, Central, Hong Kong. Tel 2525 7949
Kaleidoscope Studio 5 3 C Address 3C Chen Yip Bldg, 5 Lai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel 2728 4224 Fax 27487040
We can construct the roads and plan our living area. No matter it’s big or small, wide or narrow, deep or shallow, it’s all up to the vision and mind of developers. When our government is not committed to art development, then it’s our turn to fight for our right and control over it if we want to have a favorable landscape for art development and practices.
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Walking into a museum, we are sometimes stunned by how the displayed art pieces and artifacts appear almost undamaged. It is, in fact, part of the efforts of the museum staff working tirelessly to restore and keep safe these priceless articles. Exhibitions apart, safekeeping the artifacts are certainly one of the core functions of a museum. As the chief curator of the Hong Kong Art Museum Ms. Cristina Chu points out, the quintessence of a museum is the preservation of [material culture]. Through collection, protection, study and planning, the [material culture] – a derivative of human culture – is preserved such that archeologists, scientists, anthropologists, or a simple visitor can peer through the articles into the past, and in doing so re-examine the present. A museum answers to the history, and [collection] is precisely the historical responsibility of the museum. The three major museums – the Hong Kong Art Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of History, and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum – share, upon first gaze, a clear-cut [division of labour]. According (1932 ) to the curator of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Tom Ming, most of the collected items in the Art 1971 Museum are pieces of artistic refinement, whereas the displays of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum are mostly practical art and designs, which include Cantonese opera, comics, toys – items that are related to daily life and popular culture, and are presented in such a way as to arouse the interest and concern of the public. Tom makes it clear that the museum only stores items that are intended for public display – so it turns out that the scope of exhibition exists before the collection itself is assembled. The hen-and-egg question seems to have resolved itself. The diversity of collected items in the Hong Kong Museum of History is comparatively more complicated. Now and then the museum receives highly unusual items – artifacts as small as arrowheads, to cable cars, even cables, automobiles used by former Governors, and the witness to countless rescue missions – the Fireboat Alexander Grantham. The Chief Curator, Joseph Ting, points out that the Museum of History has always been troubled by a serious shortage in warehouse space. While the Museum has found another venue to store its collections outside of its main site at Tsim Sha Tsui East, the lack of storage space is not expected to improve any time soon. The Hong Kong Art Museum has its own share of difficulties in acquiring its collection. Most art museums start off with donated items from private collectors, yet a successful museum cannot rely solely on private donations; it has to constantly – and actively – search for collection items and plan its long-term collection objective. Right now, however, private collection items are rarely released into the market, and this poses an even greater difficulty for the Art Museum to acquire art pieces that are of high artistic and historical value. As a result staff of the local Art Museum has to often travel outside Hong Kong to acquire collection items. Sometimes the Museum would hire overseas consultants to search for more art pieces. Another difficulty faced by local museums is budget restrictions. The visitors are charged a symbolic admission fee under the principle of [user-pays], yet compared to national museums in other countries, the admission fee of our Art Museum remain quite low [admission is free of charge on Wednesdays]. Limited financial resources, plus the huge expanses on daily operations and on maintaining museum collections, have greatly restricted the room of expanding the collections. (1933 ) Rather than putting it as a pure financial issue, the core of the matter actually lies in the 1988 government’s administration policies. How successful a museum is, and whether it is endowed with a good collection, involve a host of factors [collecting is sometimes a matter of luck indeed]. Some say that after the dissolution of the Urban Council, the application system for the purchase of new collection items became more convoluted. When the amount involved in a purchase is sizable, the museum has to submit its application to the Finance Wing in the same manner as a government department does. In other words, would a privatized mode of operation be a solution to all of the above problems? Joseph Ting has pointed out that a privately managed museum of medicine always faces financial problems, and this could be the key to the question. How should the museums in the West Kowloon Cultural District be operated? Should the discussions be limited to whether the museums should be managed by the government or by private corporations? Or should a detailed development plan be drawn up, taking every aspect of a museum – collection, display, research and planning – into careful study and consideration?
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Categories 1. Historical paintings Historical heritages from HK Hong Kong popular culture, 2. Chinese painting and and southern China in four applied art design and products, calligraphy categories: Hong Kong photography, 3. Modern arts 1. Nature History Cantonese Opera heritage, 4. Chinese Heritage 2. Archeology traditional Chinese wood 5. Xubaizhai Collection of 3. Ethnology carving, etc. Chinese Painting and 4. Local History Calligraphy
Constraints of Artistic historical value of the No serious damaged items. Emphasize on overall artistic, collections item. Reputation, level and style No repeated items. historical and cross cultural value. of the artist. Priority to items with more Priority to items with more chance to exhibit. chance to exhibit.
Most valuable/ Huang Binhong - Crisp Air in A whole set of stamps in Richest collection of Cantonese representing item Mountains and Lakes (Donated Victoria period, a door plate of Opera in the world. by The Friends of the Hong Kong HK governor in WW2. Museum of Art), Xu Bing - The Book of Heaven purchase)
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Interview Transcript/ Joanna Lee
Edo speaks...... On Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Cycle — interview with Edo de Waart
For a conductor, there is almost nothing better, I have to say. I can imagine that for string players and some audience, if your heart isn’t really in it, it could get very long and very tedious and to a certain extent boring if you don’t know the story enough, and you’re not aware of what is going on. For a conductor, however, the involvement with this grandiose fusion of theatre and music, as it were, is incredible. There is nothing like it. I know that for the first time in my life it was with the Ring Cycle that I had some sort of an almost out of body experience. I was about 21 or 22 then, I had enough money gathered up to go to the record store (there were no CDs at that time) to buy the complete Ring Cycle conducted by Georg Solti, I think it was on the Decca label. It was a green box, a thick thick box, and it had 15 or 16 LPs in it. It was so heavy it was almost unliftable. Of course I had no car then. The box had this big silver green stuff on it – it was very Germanic – price, weight, amount. I went with my bicycle to the store, and I had bags hanging over the bicycle, on either side of the carrier, and the box just fitted (‘The Ring of Nibelung’) right in one of them. I took it home like I was carrying a baby or something. I rode very carefully looking (‘The Ring’) ‘The Ring cycle’ where I went, so that nobody could smack into me, and I brought home this loot! It was just fantastic. 1848 1874 And then I had bought pocket scores – but sometimes you have to read sideways because there are so many staffs of music that you have to read sideways. So in the span of I think 6 or 7 days, I spent listening to the RING and getting more and more just bowled over and excited. It was like reading a book that is so gripping that you can’t put it away, you stay up until 3:30 in the morning, because you need to know what’s in the next scene. Finally you fall asleep over it and finish it the next day anyway. So it was with this, it was such incredible power that came off these discs of music, and also the performance, the best people who were available sang in it, and the Vienna Philharmonic doing an incredible job, and Solti just being his fantastic self. So I thought all along: how is Wagner going end this? What sort of music can you write to top this off, to end this cycle? Of course when you get to the last 3, 4, or 5 minutes of Götterdämmerung, there is still another layer that you didn’t know that Wagner could add to this last crashing together of Valhalla, where the world is purified and ready for human beings to take over. 1-2/7 (Janine Jansen) ...On going to Bayreuth There is always, before the Festival, a week of dress rehearsals, and tickets are usually available for 8-9/7 (Jacque Zoon) musicians and friends. So I was able to go there for all the dress rehearsals and see most of that. I saw Tannhäuser, and another year, I saw the dress rehearsals for Tristan und Isolde conducted by Carlos www.hkpo.com Kleiber, probably the conductor whom I most admire in my profession*. So you sit in this incredible theatre. From the outside, it looks like a cow barn with red bricks, and you have no idea that you are About ‘The Ring’ going to step almost into Valhalla, this almost square hall, or more oblong hall with seats that you Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a series of four epic operas. wouldn’t want to know about. There are four spindly metal legs and two slabs of wood, and you sit Richard Wagner wrote both the libretto there two hours in a row on these incredible, quite uncomfortable seats. But there is nothing in the and the music from 1848 to 1874, over the course of twenty-six years! The four operas theatre to hurt the acoustics. There is no shred of material on them. You don’t see the orchestra, the pit is in the Ring cycle are Das Rheingold (The covered over, and actually when I conducted there myself in 1979, finally, the orchestra sits in shorts and Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), short sleeves, and the conductor usually conducts the first two acts in shorts and on sandals, and these Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). The ‘Ring’ is a work of are as comfortable as possible, because the audience doesn’t see you anyway. Only in the third act do extraordinary scale and length. A full you have to put your tails on, because you have to go out and take a bow, and that is a bummer, that performance of the cycle typically takes place over four nights at the opera, with a you have to dress up after all. So there is this incredible atmosphere in Bayreuth, it is like people going to total playing time of nearly 15 hours. An a religious experience. So that is what Wagner came to mean for me. One of the earliest Wagner operas I intriguing drama that follows three generations of protagonists, it depicts the conducted, when I was in my early thirties, was Lohengrin, for the Netherlands Opera, a piece I later struggles of gods, heroes and mythical conducted in Bayreuth. The latter was in 1979, a new production of the opera, and I was hired for 5 creatures over the magic Ring that grants domination over the world. years and then I also saw the shadowy side of Bayreuth. The orchestra rotates way too much, at least See Edo in Action! that year it did. I would walk into performance number 6 and have a horn section that I’ve never seen in Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Edo my life before, not one rehearsal were any of them there. They all came from opera orchestras so they de Waart will conduct the Hong Kong know the piece, but there is no prior contact with them. That is very difficult. In the pit, because of that Philharmonic Orchestra in July, he will conduct Holst’s The Planets (1 -2 July ) and edge behind you that curves over your head, all the music comes like a tidal wave behind you and over Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (8-9 July). For your head and you can’t hear the singers. You can’t hear anything sung under forte... more details, please go to www.hkpo.com
*The eminent conductor Carlos Kleiber passed away in 2004 at the age of 74
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Expanding city, collapsing time, rushing passengers, rarely having leisure to taste our life. No matter how things are pushing, sometimes somewhere have to stop, to let your eyes open widely and wildly, to free a cultural vision. From now on, we will invite a [cultural man] for every issue, to show his snapshot and publicize his private-cultural life. Here, Stanley first... / editorial
Stanley Wong [ Anothermountainman]
anothermountainman started his career in the graphic and advertising industry, in the past over 20 years he has won more than 300 awards in graphic design and advertising locally and internationally. He is deeply involved in fine arts and photography, focusing on human rights and social issues. His talents in photography and fine arts have been recognized in numerous exhibitions and awards.
44 COMMEdes GARCONS Yoji Yamamoto Martin Margiela Nike and Addias I love to dress the clothes of COMMEdes GARCONS, Yoji, Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Martin Margiela, Nike and Addias. IWC I love to wear IWC watch.
I love to eat fresh vegetarian food, the tofu set-course in the temple of Kyoto is excellent.
I love to live in the most basic, the most simple space, closest to the Natural. May be constructed by mud and wood, may be just a cave with facilities.
I love to take train, because she is clam with rythme, I can hug those beautiful scene.
I love to wander in park, especially in London High Park.
I love to visit Kyoto and London, and Berlin, New York, Venice, Tokyo, St. Petersburg... any cultural city.
I love to take a camera to read the things and persons around me.
[ ] If I have to go to a isolated island, I would not go with anyone, just myself, afraid of difficult situation; If I have choices, I would bring along with a camera, a notebook, lots of favourite books and some vegetarian instant noodle [certainly with cooking set]. That will be fine.
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Drifting City
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I haven’t been to designer bookshops for a while now, but on one excursion, I have uncovered in a bookstore in Sukhumvit, Bangkok, two books from the Netherlands – one a photographic magazine, the other a book on architecture. Both attempt to record/imagine their wanderings in the city with experimental methods. [Foam] issue 8: sidewalk [SIDEWALK] [Foam] sidewalk [ ] Tom Wood [The Bus Series]
Tom Wood Photography is interesting when it deals with real life. But if it's only about real life, it doesn't interest me. [Dream / Life And Beyond] Trent Parke
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Featuring a cover designed to look like a package wrapped in brown paper, marked with a postal chop and the eye-catching quarterly title “SIDEWALK”, the[Foam]photography magazine invites photographers from different parts of the world to submit their pieces on a designated theme for each issue. The most recent issue, entitled “Sidewalk”, collects the “Street photography” of six photographers plus essays and interviews for each. [The Bus Series], by Tom Wood, is a collection of photographs taken from years of bus rides. The reflections of light upon the windows become the most natural way of presenting an overlap of images, and people and scenery inside and outside the bus fill the whole picture. While his pieces sometimes feature realist shots of passers-by, Tom Wood emphasizes that the photograph itself interests him more than the scene it depicts. Photography is interesting when it deals with real life. But if it's only about real life, it doesn't interest me.
48 In another series ,[Dream/Life And Beyond], the photographer Trent Parke made deliberate use of high- contrast monochrome photographs to capture the streets of Sydney during sunless periods. His works feature the city’s dark shadows, thunder and rain, and cityscapes outlined by gray silhouettes. One can catch a glimpse of commuters shrouded in light, in darkness, as searching, pondering, hestitant shapes, encircled by the dream-like aura of this city. This issue of[Foam]has also introduced a new column, named sidewalk.mms.photoblog, as an entertaining interleave for the “Street photography” series. The design is cool, resembling the functional interface of online daily. People from different cities take snaps of different time periods of their own city. As the editor have explained, the snapshot approach characteristic of photoblog is one that centers around “Impromptu”, focusing on the exchange of personal, rather than aesthetical, experience of photography. Perhaps a photographic piece carrying profound messages can present its content and significance without need for words, but a photoblogger compiles massive amounts of image data into thematic arrays as not less remarkable way of telling pictorial stories. In recent years because of the popularity of open wireless networks around the world and the lowered cost of data transmission [it’s a shame that in Hong Kong, information technology is still quite backwards], many photobloggers are creating instantaneous textual and photographic records with mobile mail, MMS and SMS, publishing the personalized information on the internet in different forms. Let us take a different perspective, and look through the portable images of photobloggers the global scenery of different horizons and different individual tastes.
Five Minutes City: ARCHITECTURE AND [IM]MOBILITY [Winy Maas / MVRDV, 2003]
Five Minutes City Berlage Institute Mies van der Rohe Foundation [ ] The Institut Français d'Architecture [ ] Winy Maas
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Can you imagine a future world where technological advances would make commuting a breeze? In 5 minutes, one can complete any point-to-point journey within a city. Five Minutes City is an international study hosted by the experimental academy in Netherlands, Berlage Institute, in cooperation with Mies van der Rohe Foundation [Barcelona] and the Institut Français d'Architecture [Paris]. Winy Maas, an architect from Rotterdam, was invited over to oversee the project. The focus: the intimate relationship between future urban planning and mobile information techonolgy. Take for example the two cities, Rotterdam and Manhattan. If Winy Maas’s idea of the “Five Minutes City” is to be converted into reality, how should the city be rebuilt? If all forms of transportation are made public, what form would the city take on? Through the workshop notes, experiments, conversations, essays collected throughout the year-long investigation, one can discover the intimate relationship between city building and mobile technology.
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Benjamin 1973 Serge Jane Birkin Francoise Hardy Brigitte Bardot Serge [Histoire de Melody Nelson] Benjamin Wind Keren Ann [Biographie de Luka Phillipsen] Coralie Clement [Salle des Pas Perdus] Henri Salvador Francoise Hardy Jane Birkin Benjamin 2001 [Rose Kennedy] [Negatif] Benjamin Chiara Mastroianni [ Catherine Deneuve ] [Home] Gainsbourg Benjamin [Clara Et Moi] Benjamin [L'Origine] French-Pop Benjamin [Mon Amour M'A Baise] [Mes Peines De Coeur] [Adieu Triste Amour] [Paris Paris] Serge Gainsbourg
50 Although music is universal without boundaries, I sometimes inadvertently throw myself into music of a particular country. Not long ago, Finnish Underground from Finland made me enter the realm of selflessness and I was really enchanted by their unique style of psychedelic folk. Recently, I have been charmed by those new British Post-Punk bands such as Maximo Park, Art Brut, the Cribs, etc. The new reverberating guitar sound has already driven me crazy. Moreover, some familiar names like Razorlight, Bloc Party and Babyshambles that I deeply love, motivate Maximo Park [Trigger] me to join the various music festivals in Post-Punk
England this summer to experience the Maximo Park [Trigger] passion of Post-Punk music. Franz Ferdinand Gang Of Four Bloc Party I was once a French music super fan and It is out of expectation that electronic there is always some kind of passionate labels wants to share the joy of the return complex when I talk about it. I was of Post-Punk trend. The band sound of [Trigger] , the debut album of the new- completely absorbed by the decadent music rising group [Maximo Park] is so exciting of Serge Gainsbourg in the 60s, sexy and refreshing as to the sound of Franz Brigitte Bardot, lovely France Gall, Ferdinand, Gang Of Four and Bloc Party. refreshing Francoise Hardy, avant-garde Brigitte Fontaine and the great electronic music trend like Air, Daft Punk, Kid Loco, etc. But my experience wasn’t so good when I was in Paris. My utmost purpose of the journey at the first place was to experience the French music atmosphere that brought about by Gainsbourg and Air. However, what I brought with me when I left was disappointment. There was no French romance but streets covered by birds’s excretion. Teenage Fanclub [Man-Made] However, the intention of traveling to France has recently been aroused as I have already devoted to the Indie Teenage Fanclub music of French-pop new fame Benjamin Biolay. When talking about Benjamin, the prestigious music father Serge Gainsbourg must be associated with. Although Benjamin does not have the untamed [Man-Made] personality like Serge, it is refreshing to learn that he has his noble quality and a fine-featured handsome Harmony face. The four-member group Teenage Club once made Glasgow the indie music hot spot in Handsome and talented Benjamin was born in Lyon in 1973. He is like Serge, who is talented and well- the 90s. They have been making several good songs for many years. Released on rounded, working as a songwriter, vocalist and producer. He received formal classical music training their own label, the songs from the single when he was young and this is why he is good at various musical instruments. He is also greatly [Man-Made] are still tender and harmonious. It is nostalgic but not old. influenced by the French female signers like Jane Birkin, Francoise Hardy and Brigitte Bardot and [Histoire de Melody Nelson] of Serge is a prominent work that very much inspired his creative experience. Benjamin entered the French music scene as members of several groups like Wind and he later went on his own way to work independently. His name has gradually been recognized when he worked as a producer of Keren Ann and the feedback of the album [Biographie de Luka Phillipsen] was good. At the same time, under his greatest assistance, his younger sister’s debut album won critical praise from the public. Besides, he has become a popular composer after working with those senior singers like Henri Salvador, Francoise Hardy, Jane Birkin, etc. Fischerspooner [Odyssey] His success of working as a composer and producer did not affect his determination to work as a singer. Fischerspooner He acted as a vocalist in his debut solo album "Rose Kennedy", which was released in 2001. His double- [Odyssey] CDs album [Negatif] was released 2 years later and his creative ambition was seen in his rich French [#1] music style. Last year, although Benjamin did not release any solo albums, it didn’t mean that he did Electroclash nothing. First, he worked with his wife Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of French best actress Catherine From popular to unpopular, the New York Group Fischerspooner learns from Deneuve, on the album [Home]. The sense of romance was generated by their total compatibility and it experience that life is always fluctuated. can be mentioned with the perfect couple Gainbourg in the same breath. Besides, his talented was again Although their newly-released album [Odyssey] is not as popular as the previous highly recognized by his first soundtrack made for the film [Clara Et Moi]. one [#1], they made great progress in terms of music. They are no longer He released his third solo album [A l'origine] recently. This time, there is no repetition of his old sound impetuous Electroclash. but the music essence of French-pop remains, together with a little decadent style. Perhaps, it is not the kind of music as you like in the past, it can be sure that his possibility of his music realm is wide-ranging. A kind of refreshing feeling is sent to you when listening to [Mon Amour M'A Baise], [Mes Peines De Coeur] and [Adieu Triste Amour] and the song [Paris Paris] explains why he is the best choice of Gainsbourg’s successor.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds [B-Sides & Rarities] Nick Cave [Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus]
Boxset Nice Cave, who is middle-aged, has created more and more work in recent years. The double-CDs album [Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus] was just released last autumn and the [B-Sides & Rarities] has already released. Not to mention the songs, which are officially released for the first time, this 3-CDs boxset is already worth possessing.
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Consuming Cats and Dogs in Japanese Cinema
[ ] Snoopy Hello Kitty sell Kawai [ ] [ Q] [ ] ? ? Lovely animals are always adorable. We see Mickey Mouse saving Hong Kong economy, queues everywhere when Snoopy dolls are available, and Hello Kitty is popular for more than 20 years. But all those are fake animals and the cute little real animals are irreplaceable. Therefore although shooting animal films are not easy, they usually get not bad box office. As I can remember seldom cutie animal films are bad sellers, unless they make fun of the animals or the animals are not cute enough. As the master of “Kawai” culture Japanese also shoot success animal films. [The Adventure of Milo and Otis] was very famous in Hong Kong when I was small. Last year [Quill] was a blockbuster. This year in July there will be a movie named “All about my dogs” casting more than 100 dogs for you to enjoy. Has the definition or function ever changed in the past 20 years? What positions are the cats and dogs taking in there movies which make these movies success?
Koneko monogatari [aka The Adventure of Milo and Otis] [ ] [ Dee] [ ] Ryuichi Sakamoto [ ] Discovery Channel Dee [ ] Dee [The adventure of Milo and Otis] adventure [ Dee] [ ] [ ] [ Dee] 1895 [ ] [The Adventure of Milo and Otis] could be known as the first success of Japanese cats and dogs movies in Hong Kong. Apart from cute panther-like little cat Milo and little dog Otis, the most remarkable things of this movie should be the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the rumor of more than ten cats scarifiedDVD during the shooting of this movie. [The Adventure of Milo and Otis] could also be known as a successful 2002 3 18 movie of the pre-Discovery Channel era. Though the story of this movie is not a real one, the elements in the movie was very much the same as those in programs of Discovery Channel, for example using only 90 animals as protagonists and voice over as the narrator. At the time of this movie audiences were so [HK] innocent and believed everything in the movie could be true. What they consumed in the movie was the story of adventure, and the cuteness of cats and dogs helped to achieve this. Audiences were so involved and prayed for a good ending for Milo and Otis, so innocent that nowadays it sounds like the audiences running around when watching Lumiere brothers’ he Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station” in 1895.
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Q Q Q 2 Q Q Although Hong Kong movie critic Shek Ki credited the truthfulness of the dog stood out among animations and computer graphics in movies nowadays was the successful element of [Quill], I think the multi-media advertisement should also be credited. The movie story was originally a novel and in advertisements it is emphasized that this novel was very touching. Then they used many photos of Quill as little dog in advertisements, but in fact Quill was not a little dog in most of the movie. The touching parts were mostly about an old man and an old dog. The twist of the advertisements was that they attracted the audiences to watch a touching movie about a cute little dog. I am not saying this movie was a crap. Actually I love the details about training Quill to be a guide dog and the Japan civil society as DVDa background. However the cuteness of Quill was flooding the audiences in advertisements and covered 2004 10 29 all other points. It could be understood since overall it was a commercial movie and it is hard to success without a clear selling point. 100 Another interesting point is the arrangement of the story of Quill, which made Quill like a memory as [HK] your pet. Most of the animal movies were about something happened between the keeper and the animals, and the endings are usually either happy endings or animals going back to the Mother Nature. Seldom animals died in front of the audiences. Portraying Quill whole life to audiences in 2 hours gave audiences a taste of keeping a dog which they needed worry about the troubles led by a dog. Watching this movie is similar to buying a pet memory.
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Scheduled release 16/7The latest version of animal movies are no longer selling the cuteness of only one animal or one Casting touching story, but selling what Jean Baudrillard called “A system of signs”. [All about my Dogs] contains xxx xxxseven short stories about living with dogs shoot by seven directors. With popular actress Misaki Ito and Director actor Shidou Nakamura, this movie also casts 94 dogs of 50 kinds. Dog lovers will be crazy about this movie and it is a good opportunity for them to gather. Also the official website of this movie is providing all kinds of information about the dogs to satisfy the Japanese’s desire on information. Under the situation that the virtual reality world in Japan, including animations, TV games, movies and cyberspace, are all linked up as a mega-market nowadays, I believe there are two facts that catalyzed the shooting of this movie. First is this movie learnt from the new marketing strategy of comics and animations, which make greater profit by releasing side products than selling the actual comics and animations. In that cast the large number of characters in the comics and animations are more important than the quality of stories. Second is the success of [Nintendog], a dog keeping game of Nintendo’s portable game machine NDS. This game was successful because you could choose to keep many kinds of dogs, and it also provides rich information about the dogs. The formula of the success of the products mentioned above is to turn cute little dogs to sign of cuteness, and then produce products within the system of signs for consumers who never success in fulfilling their consuming desire.
In late capitalistic society like Hong Kong and Japan, pleasure comes from consumptions which eventually encourage more consumption. When cuteness are turned to products, and when there are too many cuteness for you to choose, it is no more important if the cats and dogs are real or not in movies. Wars film highlight/
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War is a moment of danger. Bullets and bombs flying all around and enemies setting up traps everywhere. But chances also come when there are crisis. We always see small potatoes become heroes in war movies, and hot guys and girls hanging around. July, a season of hot summer sun. What could be better than sitting an air-conditioned cinema and enjoy watching heroes in war movies sweating? War of the Worlds 1938 Orson Welles [ ]
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In 1938 US talented radio show host Orson Welles told the story of [War of the Worlds] through radio which was about aliens from Mars attacking the Erath. He told it so well that many people believed it was true and US was turned to chaos. Will Steven Spielberg repeat the tragedy by shoot the film too well that makes the audience believe the Mars aliens are really coming? Surreally handsome star Tom Cruise presents in the movie and reminds it is not a real world. Dir: Steven Spielberg Cast: Tom Cruise Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin Release on: 29 June SAHARA ] + [ ] [ ]
Novel [The Da Vince Code] is already well known around the world, but the movie version is still under production. This gives a great chance for film companies to continue making films with secret on national treasures + treasure hunting action movies after [National Treasure]. This time a famous historical gold coin is a hint to find a warship disappeared during the US Civil War. Sure there is treasure on the ship, and sure that could cause some danger to the world. For sure again, the protagonists are going to save the world. Dir: Breck Eisner Cast: TMatthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn Release on: 7 July The Island [ ] : ? [ ] !
Back to the question in [Matrix] again: would you take the red pill to stay in the safe illusion, or take the blue pill to search for the danger true world? Like the sugarcoated trap in [The Beach], the story happens on an island. The island seems to be an unpolluted utopia, but all a sudden the protagonists finds out all that are lies. They firmly their blue pill and start to search for their real world . Dir: Michael Bay Cast: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean Release on: 20 July Stealth B-52
Modern weapons are so advanced and so terrible. We need not to mention extreme examples like atomic bombs, but only see the giant B-52 bomber in the US-Afghanistan war which shinned brightly in the sky and night and dropped rain of bombs already gives you a feeling like the King of Terror is coming. The weapon in this movie is even more terrible. It is a stealth fighter with AI armed with destructive weapons. Unfortunately it was hit by lightening in its first mission and turned it to the greatest enemy of The States. Dir: Rob Cohen Cast: Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel Release on: 4 August
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The Thing, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman and Human Touch – A well known Marvel Comics [Fantastic Four] vs the evil Doctor Doom. Dir: Peyton Reed Cast: Loan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chikis Release on: 14 July
Lion, Zebra, Giraffe and Hippo get used to life in city too much and they are not suitable to return to the Mother Nature in [Madagascar]! Dir: Peyton Reed Cast: Loan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chikis Release on: 14 July
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In the 80s, there is a civil war in El Salvador, and children above 12 years old were forced to be armies. Chava was already 11 years old and have only one year of [Innocent Voice] Dir: Luis Mandoki Cast: Leonor Varela, Carlos Padilla Release on: 7 July
In last episode Dragon won Stephy’s heart, but quickly she turned to another boy this time and Dragon need to be [Dragon Reloaded] to find another lover. Dir: Cast: Release on: 1 July
Cockroach and red ants are disgusting, but you will love the bugs in [Bug Me Not] who can talk to you and show you how to make boyfriend. Dir: Cast: Release on: 21 July
55 art express/ international arts news / art talks/ The O2 The O2 Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) 1,800 2012 The Dome has been mired in[London BBC News] The £758m-budget Millennium Dome will be renamed “The O2” and be reopened in April 2007 as a new concert controversy almost from the outset arena for musicians such as U2 and Sir Paul McCartney. Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) and mobile phone company O2, the developer of the dome, will redesign the whole district to feature a British music hall of fame, a Jazz and Blues street, an 1,800-seat theatre, and a 2,200-capacity music club alongside restaurants, bars and an outdoor arena and piazza. The 23,000-capacity indoor arena aims to host up to 150 music, film, entertainment and sports events in its first year.The Dome also forms part of the London 2012 Olympic bid and could host the basketball and gymnastic events. www.festival-avignon.com Artist's impression of the concert Jan Fabre L istoire des Larmes Je Suis arena inside the revamped DomeSang For Int rieur, exposition L mpereur de la perte Le roi du Plagiat Josef Nadj Ultima Vez William Forsythe Olivier Py Societas Raffaello Sanzio One of the world’s most prestigious festival, Avignon Festival, will be opened this year from 8 to 27 July. The 59th festival features the Belgium artist Jan Fabre as associate artist of the year, five pieces of his works, L’Histoire des Larmes, Je Suis Sang, For Intérieur, exposition, L’Empereur de la perte, Le roi du Plagiat will be showcased. Other artists include Josef Nadj, Ultima Vez, William Forsythe, Olivier Py, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, etc. www.festival-avignon.com Enquiry Hotline +33 (0) 4 90 14 14 60 The Art Newspaper.com The Art Newspaper 2004 7,638 Happiness 7,860 °iThe Art Newspaper.com News°j According to The Art Newspaper’s annual ranking of global exhibition attendance, the most visited A show of screen show of 2004 was “Treasures of a sacred mountain” at the Tokyo National Museum which was seen by an average of 7,638 visitors a painting at the day. Another Japanese exhibition shot to the top tens of the list is the “Treasures of Chinese art”, which was held in the same National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo institution. The inaugural show of the privately-run Mori Art Museum, “Happiness”, which was seen by an average of 7,860 daily was seen by 3,873 visitors. However, it was excluded from the list because the Mori admission ticket also provides access to the immensely popular visitors per day in 2004 observation platform at the top of the skyscraper. London BBC News Turner Prize Gillian Carnegie Darren Almond Jim Lambie Simon Starling Sir Nicolas Serota
Four artists have been nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, they are Gillian Carnegie – still life, Darren Almond – photography and video, Jim Lambie – installation and Simon Starling – installation. This is the first time the Turner judges, chaired by Sir Nicolas Serota this year, had shortlisted a still life artist to the Prize which comes with a cheque for £25,000. The four artists will create new pieces especially for a Turner Prize exhibition at the Tate Britain museum in London, which opens on 18 October while the result will be announced on 5 December.The prize was set up in 1984 to showcase new developments in British art and promote discussion of visual arts.
Darren Almond's Terminus Starling's bicycle takes the form of two bus stops Lambie says he does not was taken across meticulously plan his work the Tabernas Desert Gillian Carnegie's Fleurs de Huile shows off her still life work visual arts/
Duchamp Doisneau Nikki de Saint-Phalle [Paris News] For the first time in its 28-year history, the Pompidou in Paris is to display its permanent collection in thematic sections rather than chronological order. The new hang, entitled “Big Bang: destruction and creation in 20th-century art”, opens on 13 June Ed Paschke’s Joella (1973) is on view in Big (until February 2006). The aim is to re-write the history of art by re-hang the exhibition in the following sections: destruction; bang at the Centre deconstruction; archaism; sex; war; language; melancholy; and re-discovery. The section on sex, for instance, will present depictions of Pompidou in Paris wives and prostitutes in works by artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Robert Doisneau and Nikki de Saint-Phalle.
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[Royal Academy News] The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, now in its 237th year, is the world's largest open contemporary art exhibition and features paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and architectural models. This year, runs from 7 June to 15 August in the Main Gallery of London’s Royal Academy, takes a special focus on multiple image or object. Internationally acclaimed artists whose work will be exhibited among 1,000 others include Paula Rego, Langlands and Bell, Mimmo Paladino, Richard Hamilton, Helen The Royal Academy Frankenthaler, Chuck Close and Louise Bourgeois. Summer Exhibition http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ http://www.dv8.co.uk DV8 2003 The Cost of Living David Eddie Lloyd Newson The Cost of Living, a film adopted from the stage performance of DV8 has won 7 international film awards award and is on show on 7 - 19 July in several film festivals, including Dance on Camera tour in Chilmark and Middletown (US), Cinedans in Amsterdam. The 35mins film, directed by Lloyd Newson, tells the story of David, a dancer who has no legs (as he is in real life) and Eddie, a tough believer in 2005 DV8 Physical Theatrejustice and honesty, through dance and dialogue. performances/ www.pekingopera.sh.cn
( ) Prince Hamlet and Ophelia (Photo °iwww.pekingopera.sh.cn°jThe Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre is going to stage a Peking Opera version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at Credit: Shanghai Peking Opera Kronborg Castle in Helsingor of Denmark from 1 – 5 August. The performance, which is staged in Helsingor where the store was set, is Theatre) part of the “Shakespeare in Kronborg Castle Festival” organized by the Danish Government. With the Peking Opera version, the basic storyline is kept where condensed to the revenge of Prince Halmet to leave time for sing, dancing, acrobatics and martial arts. The new version is directed by Shi Yukun and was premiered on 26 May in Shanghai. Piccadilly Sky Masterson Elaine Jane Krakowski 1955 °iLondon News°jActor Ewan McGregor has made his debut in the West End show in Guys and Dolls. The show, directed by Michael Grandage and co-starred by the Ally McBeal actress Jane Krakowski, is now on show in London’s Piccadilly Theatre. After Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge and Star Wars, the 34-year-old actor is back to stage playing gambler Sky Masterson in the revival of the 1950s musical. The musical itself is famous with the big-screen version which starred by Marlon Brando. http://www.guysanddollsthemusical.com Box Office ( )+44 (0)870 060 0123
56 www.washingtonpost.com Ruth Laredo Ruth Laredo 1974 1979
Ruth Laredo, a dynamic and graceful concert pianist of the past three decades, died on May 25 of ovarian cancer after her last performed on May 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was 67. Often called “America’s first Lady of piano”, she was especially known for her interpretations of difficult Russian and French music. From 1974 to 1979, she released seven albums of the complete solo compositions of Rachmaninoff.
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plan your visit ! education http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk The spirit of a gallery – The official website of The National Gallery, London°GThe National Gallery in London is a heaven of arts. It has rich collections by famous artists from the year 1250 to 1900, including Von Gogh°ARaphael and Titian. These are all bright names that formed Renaissance and Baroque, the golden ages of western arts history. The official website is the virtual reality version of this heaven. Apart from rich information of the collections it also provide introduction of the artists as well as hyperlinks to sites related. The most special service in the website is the item [Plan your visit], which helps you to plan and prepare before you visit the gallery. The National Gallery is not only a tourist point and please be prepared before your visit! Another item in the website [Education] is also very useful. It provides teaching materials for teachers to use when they bring their students to the gallery for a tour. The website is like the benches in the gallery. Although they are the sidetracks of the gallery, they show the spirit of the gallery which is taking arts serious and care about the visitors. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk [ text / Joanna Wong] - Art Daily Vitra Design Museum pixels :1. Fairs: 2. Mythology: 3. Art Quiz:
[ ] LV ! http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk Arts treasures in the Internet – Art Daily°GA site that art lovers cannot miss. You just need to supply your e-mail address and then you will receive an e-mail with an attached arts related graphic. For example yesterday was the world’s first world map, and today is an exhibited item of Vitra Design Museum. If we can’t escape from electricization of our daily life, which don’t we make the cyberspace more artful and let arts reborn in the pixels formed computer world. This site not only supply arts news but also has rich arts related resources. You could say this is the yellow of the art world. The followings are my choices, 1.Fairs: Showing all the arts festival happening around the world with opening dates and official website hyperlink. / 2. Mythology: Details about myths that inspired the western paintings and sculptures before 4th century and during Renaissance. / 3. Art Quiz: A quiz about arts that will update regularly, with question ranging from Michelangelo to arts term. Welcome to challenge. Also there are news about museums in the world, arts critiques, feature news, and hyperlinks about artists and architects. This site was elected as the best site by The Newsweekly and The British Encyclopedia. Visit this site and shift your taste from LV bags and seaside flats to something more elegant. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk [ text / Joanna Wong] [ ] [ ]
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Bought a Slap: A drama performance in French May. Revised from Bernard-Marie Koltes’ [Solitudes of Cotton Fields], [Solitudes multiples] is a story about 2 people of different nationality met at Central. Von Gogh said human express most terrible passion in darkness, and in the dark Fringe Club theatre the dialogue between the French man and Chinese man expressed some facts of human nature. They are buying and selling culture in Hong Kong the so-called international metropolis. Art is a slap that forces you to think. The Chinese man said:[Look at me. I am different from the women in Lan Kwai Fong who burst up their breasts to attract foreign guys, and then saying something like “I am not a traditional Chinese!”] In such a short dialogue how Hong Kong people admire western culture is made to be seen. Adeline Chiu the reviser mixed Hong Kong culture into the scripts and let audiences to buy slaps and a chance to rethink why they want to make foreign friends. Do they want to be admired on street when walking with foreign friends? Or are they consuming foreign friends as cans?
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57 art express/ preview-performance / [ ] 7 15 17 [ ] Purple [ ] www.hkco.org This summer, the Monkey King is having his vocation in Hong Kong. On 15-17 May the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra will be presenting a family concert, The Monkey King Goes on Summer Holiday: Tales from Journey to the West which is one of the programme of the International Art Carnival. The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra will tell the stories through Chinese music. Together with composer Chen Ning-Chi and popular storyteller Purple Lee [Lee Chi-Yan], you can almost ‘see’ the Monkey wreaking havoc in heaven, teasing Princess Iron Fan and beating the Bony Ghost. Don’t miss this wonderful music adventure for the whole family! www.hkco.org
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Those who were born in the 70s would be in their 20s today. With this in mind, the Trinity Theatre has produced a mini-theatre production, [those were the days], as a tribute to the era. The story begins from a simple wish to “paint the rainbow”, featuring popular songs, events, love affairs, and days of youthfulness and naivety. Very early on the theatre group has the the literary fiction, [Tracing the Scent], written by the prestigious local author Cathy Chan, transformed into theatre. The drama was rated by critics and on the web as one of the top ten theatrical productions of the year. It is a perfect example of the theatre group’s concern for [historicizing the city, recording life]. While this is already the third encore performance for [those were the days], how can one ever tire of this tremendous experience? From June 30 to July 10, revisit the old days at the McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Art Centre. [ ] [ ] [ ]
[ ] 7 22 8 14 8 www.ewww.hk Please indulge me, but I have yet another encore performance here. We hadn’t had the column space for these productions in the past, so this is a great opportunity, [perhaps the last chance], for an introduction. Also coming up in July is the encore performance of [East Wing West Wing 2005]. The promotional flyers claimed that it was more than [the most popular political comedy in Hong Kong history], but also [the most politically-correct]. Since the beginning of the colonial era, there hasn’t been a time like the present where politics can be made into entertainment. The [East Wing West Wing] series, produced by Mathias Woo and Edward Lam, is the epitome of our [spirit of the times], and has brought us endless laughter. Whether it can move the audience to self-reflection, to ponder on politics with entertainment, would be up to the audience themselves. The least one would get are rounds of hearty laughter, and a break from the monotonic life of Hong Kong. Laugh your head off from July 22 to August 14 at 7 every night at the HKAPA Lyric Theatre. www.ewww.hk
[ ] [ ] [ ] 2000 15-17 / 7 http://www.hkballet.com/ Hans Christian Anderson’s 200th birthday is celebrated in Hong Kong Ballet’s The Emperor and the Nightingale. It was said that Anderson wrote this story after he had heard it from Chinese sailors in the port of Copenhagen. The choreographer of this show, Domy Reiter-Soffer, said creating this ballet was a journey of discovery for him, as he wanted to give ballet not only a Chinese style but also a universal appeal creating a language of movement that would suit the story, by delving into Chinese and oriental art and movement as well as the western language of dance in order to give it a wide appeal. He thinks it is a journey to Self-truth and fulfillment in search for life’s beauty, sometimes when we find it, we discard it for something dazzling and unnatural. The show was a bit hit on its European tour in 2000. See, Nightingale.
designer chair 6 10 221-226 Meta4 Design Forum www.mdfa.net Chairs are designed to be sit in. Designing a chair is the basic practice for every budding, and the uniqueness of that design is an indicator of how successful the designer is. A chair is the fount of inspiration for a designer, and for collectors, a designer’s chair is a much sought-after item. Every month from June to October, at Meta4 Design Forum, 221-226 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, designer chairs from different artists will be showcased. Which one will be your favorite? www.mdfa.net [ ] [ ? ]
How can one confine freedom in a frame? Just ask the artists of [The Meeting Point]. As the brain behind the group, Lo Yat Lun said [there are limitations in Life…we are not immue from the sorrows in living…Nevertheless, in the works of art, we can soar alongside eagles in the boundless sky.] We can upload the sorrows of everyday living into this space. Thus, there is limitless freedom from confinement in life. The mixed-media exhibition [Freedom. Confinement] is on from 5 to 15, July at Taikoo Place. Talking about frame and free, we are all framed by traditions anyway. Yet Julia Tang, fascinated by the magic world of Cantonese Opera since childhood, delicately depicts the dramatic moments of Cantonese opera, the grace and subtlety of the performance by the actors/actresses with her painting brush. You will see her painting just after the above show, 19-26 July at Taikoo Place also. 70 70 13 5 70 James Chu 5 [ ] [ Zipper TOX] 5 28 7 10 70 Some say that the 70s is a broken era, where monolithic ideologies and values dominate an individual’s life. After the 70s, life became more diverse; we were given more choices, broader visions. The Ox Warehouse in Macau has held an exhibition [We from the 70’s] featuring 18 youth artists – 13 from Macau, 5 from Hong Kong – born in the 70s, all aiming at representing their own cultural identity with their works. Artists from Macau include James Chu, Pak Keung, Shih Hun-Cheng, Shih Ming-Kwun, Fu Yiu-Tong, Chan Yuen-Man, Wong Ka-long, Wong Ka-kun, Tang Chong, Yip Wei-tao, Yang Chi-Kin, and Kan Pui-Yan. As for the 5 artists from Hong Kong, the organizing committee says “it has to be kept a secret”; their works will be moved in, piece by piece, only after the exhibition is open to public, so that the exhibition will continuously be infused with new elements, and to give the audience a different view at different stages of the exhibition. In the same period another exhibition [Neo-human Art Project – Zipper – Tox] will be showcased to the public from May 28 to July 10. Which scenes of the date are you going to pick? The passion of the 70s burns bright nonetheless. [FASCINATION] Ackbar Abbas [As any experience that captures our attention without at the same time submitting entirely to our understanding.] [ ] [FASCINATIONS] [Leung Meeping] [Suki Chan] Melanie Jackson Angela Su 29/06/2005-16/07/2005
In Chinese, the word [fascination] carries the meaning of bewitchment, but the definition given by famous cultural scholar Professor Ackbar Abbas is even more [fascinating], [As any experience that captures our attention without at the same time submitting entirely to our understanding.] And our culture, race, collective memory and so on are all filled up by [fascination]. Selecting an exhibition with a theme of [FASCINATIONS], Hanart TZ Gallery exhibits the work of Leung Meeping, Suki Chan, Melanie Jackson and Angela Su. They capture obscure of personal narratives through various mediums: fabric, photography, film, video and sound, to explore a range of human interactions or conflicts. 29/06-16/07/2005, that would a delightful yet serious cultural exchange.
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60 editorial/ 威尼斯雙年展之旅後記 摻揉著沙巴翁溫暖甜膩的質感，威尼斯這藝術與文學的城市，是首百年不褪色的古詩，在古典的 樊婉貞/am post 總編輯光環中炫燿著古今的榮耀。我因為威尼斯雙年展來到了威尼斯，一百一十年歷史的威尼斯雙年展 Anthea Fan/ Editor-in-chief, am post也像歐洲第一間、座落在聖馬可廣場的佛羅倫斯咖啡店，剝落的繪畫襯托在貴氣的紅絲絨沙發 上，德布西清脆的樂曲跳動在鴿子屎的廣場上，遲暮美人的疲態，絲毫無損她獨一無二的尊貴儀 態。 第五十一屆威尼斯雙年展，因為中國館的歷史性參展，使得亞洲藝術的版圖完整的拼湊起來。現 行的亞洲參展國家，除了最早參展的韓國及日本館，台灣(1995)、新加坡(2001)、泰國(2003)、 中亞(2003)都早在威尼斯雙年展的歷史上。上一屆因為 SARS 而未能成行的中國館，今年仍然因 為建館問題未能擁有所屬的永久館。此次大會為使其在威尼斯建館，用盡各種優渥的對待方式， 不用場租、明確的指示標誌，及安排在軍火庫(ARSENALE)最尾端的位置與大會的國際媒體新聞 服務處(PRESS OFFICE)緊緊闢連，這使得所有國際媒體在報到之前都必有機會參觀中國館。相較 於位於聖馬可廣場、參展歷史較久的台灣館，以及場址已租借至 2007 年位於軍火庫正門口的新 加坡館，泰國館的館址屬性(位於偏離的聖佛蘭西斯可修道院裡)，以及印尼館的方便(位於 RAILTO 大橋的碼頭邊與路經聖馬可廣場的路上)，香港展區此次在接近聖安哲勒(ST. ANGELO)碼 頭，有點邊不著岸的位址，顯得猶疑、偏離被邊緣化。 第一次的參展，中國文化部邀請了二十多位官員遠來觀摩取經，除了親自觀察中國經濟改善後國 際友人各懷鬼胎的奉承，在佩姬古根漢美術館舉行的私人派對盡顯國家的特權與國際關係，藝術 品的表現倒是顯得次要。總策展人范迪安表示-「今天中國的快速發展令世界矚目。我見到威尼 斯雙年展主席時，他說過一句話讓我印象深刻，他說：[現在全世界都在以貪婪的目光注視著中 國，我們非常歡迎中國館入駐威尼斯]。我想主席先生的這種認識、心情是很有代表性的。在這 樣一個好的時機裡，以 [中國藝術家] 的名義出場，只會增加注意力。」范迪安所陳述的現象，普 遍成為當今「中國」藝術家的優勢與憂慮。「中國」藝術家使香港、台灣及澳門的藝術家邊緣 化，亦使其沾沾自喜。但「中國」藝術的發展及風格，不能蓋括所有中國人身分的藝術家，所以 「中國藝術」的優勢僅僅使大陸地區的藝術家受惠，令其他藝術家因此被遮蔽了光芒、有苦難 言。這已成為現今「中國人」尷尬的處境，無論在政治、國際局勢與文化藝術的發展，都不是健 康的現象。 eeomns This isbynomeansahealthyphenomenon. developments. internationalrelationsorcultural andartistic beitthepolitics, situation for “Chinese”, This isanembarrassing mainland artistswhichovershadowedfromotherChineseregions. benefitsonly theadvantages for “Chinese Art” therefore, inclusive forallChineseoriginartists, artisnot thedevelopmentandstyleof “Chinese” However, mainland artistsasenseofsuperiority. artistsalsogivesthe Taiwan andMacauintheworldscenefavourof “Chinese” Hong Kong, The gradual marginalizationofartistsfrom anxiety sharedamongthecontemporary Chineseartists. The phenomenondescribedbyFan Dianisthesuperiorityand timing reallydraws attentions.” The presenceof ‘Chinese artists’atsucharight what theChairmansaidisveryrepresentational. Ithink We welcomeverymuchtheparticipationofChinaPavilion inourBiennale’. covetousness. hesaidthat ‘the worldisstaringatChinawith WhenImettheBiennaleChairman, the world. full-speeddevelopmentcatchestheattentionfromallover that “China’s Fan Dian, the chiefcurator, aretheyasimportantappearedtobe?Quotefrom Artworks, private party. Guggenheim’s treatsinPeggy aswell “The mostfavouritenation” flattering frominternationaldiplomats, the20delegatesfromChineseCultural Departmentweregreetedby As thefirstexpedition, at theremotedistricts. AngeloPier)seemto bemarginalized Bridge andPiazzaSanMarco)HongKong Hall(nearSt. IndonesiaPavilion (atthemiddleofRailto Francisco Monastery), Thailand Pavilion (intheremote St. the Taiwan Pavilion (inPiazzaSanMarco)andSingaporePavilion (attheentrance of Arsenal), Comparingwiththebetterlocationsof journalists wouldhaveachancetostopand “have alook”. neighbouroftheInternationalPressOfficewhereall i.e. point –thelastpartof Arsenale, exhibitionvenueislocatedatthestrategic directoriesaremadeclear, rentisexempted, deployment: theBiennalehasmaderemarkable To facilitatetheestablishmentofChinaPavilion, established. 2003 biennaleduetotheoutbreakofSARSstillawaits itspermanentexhibitionhalltobe ChinaPavilion whichcancelledtheirpresentationinthe Thailand (2003)andMiddle-Asia(2003). Singapore(2001), TaiwanKorea (1995), andJapan (asthefirsttwo Asian pavilionsinthebiennale), The Asian nationalpavilionsthatmarked theirpresencesinhistoryarethatof is finallyestablished. The 51st Vience Biennalepresentsamorecomprehensivepictureof Asian artastheChinaPavilion yetgracious anddignified. musicpermeatedthePiazza–anautumnlover, Debussy’s Europe foundinPiazzaSanMarco–wall-paintings fallenpiecesbyontheredveloursofa, in Venice Biennaleisitselflike thefirstFlorencecafé biennale whichfirstopened110yearsago. Iwas inthecityforitsrenowned like arichpoemflauntingitseternalgloryintheclassicalpanache. tasted thecityof Art andLiterature, Venice, Immersed inthesweetnessandfreshnessofSabayon, Venice Biennale–a Travelogue
am gallery artist: Liu Guosong 劉國松 title: 動耶？靜耶？Moving? Staying? 1998 material: 水墨、塑膠彩及裱貼紙本直幅十一屏Ink, acrylic and collage on paper, a set of 11 vertical scrolls am gallery/ am 1919 肯定傳統筆墨。 起來。他們的追求脫離藝術為政治服務，或文革時代的樣板製作；力求重拾人情趣味、生活思考和古典文學藝術的意趣，並重新 藝術家。 授，曾多次在國內外舉辦畫展。現為中國美術家協會常務理事，北京山水畫研究會副會長，中央工藝美術學院教授。 在十八個城市巡迴展出，並在大學院校講學，故被譽為現代水墨畫之父和先軀。 n rmSrelsi r ntePiea ho hwdta eto ohteRtoaitsadCreto iesvisions. andCurrent ofLife’s ing fromSurrealisticartinthePrimeval Chaosshowedthathetookboth theRationalist’s yetthemythicalelementsand imaginativelandscapeemulat- Group whichwas generallyregardedastheRationalist, Through Renwas afoundingmemberoftheNorth Art RationalistpaintingandCurrentofLifepainting. two camps, The newgroupscanbedividedinto theNorth Art Groupwas theoutstandingone. emerged duringthe85Movement, groups Amongtheyoungartist’s Ren createdthis30meter-length paintingduringthehightimeof85Movement. RenJiangraduatedfromtheChinesepaintingdepartmentofLuXun Academy of Art inShenyang. Born in1965, 任戩 任戩 of hisworksiscollectedinover70artmuseumsthenow. Part world andoverahundredinternationalartexhibitionsatinvitationswon importantawards formany times. Liheldover 90 individualexhibitionsinfineartsmuseumthe Mr. After1956, ner ofmoderninkandwash painting. Hewas reputedasfatherandforerun- 18 citiesofmainlandChinaandhemadespeechesincollegesuniversities. Liu'sworkswere gaveplaceinthemobileexhibition Mr. At theinvitationofChineseFine Arts Association in1983, traditional ChinesepaintingaftergraduatedfromFine Arts DepartmentofNational Taipei NormalUniversityin1956. LiufoundedMayPainting associationtoadvocatemodernizationof Mr. He was bornin1932QingzhouShandong. 劉國松 creates amistyatmospherethatevokes alyricalresonancewithsenseofmodernity. Poon isprolificinpaintinglandscapeswithdelicatebrushworkandsubtlepalettehistreatmentofspace light tion ofmountainsandstreamsthebeautiesnatureprovidehimsourcesinspirationsinfluenceonart. HehadstudiedwiththemasterLuShoukun(1919-1976)andisfondoftouringinwhichobserva- tectural design. Poon Chun-wah latersettledinHongKong anddedicatedhimselfinprofessionofarchi- Born inGuangzhou1936, 潘振華於 潘振華 heldin2004/5attheMuseum. 80 An Art Exhibition” Yongyu at: LotusoftheQiushuianisspeciallypaintedforHongKong Museumof Art duringtheperiodof “ Huang ries. asareminiscenceofhischildhoodmemo- Huangparticularlylovespaintingdenselotusesdeepinthelotuspond, him. Huang Yongyu would spendhistimeobservingwhatwas happeningaround Withnothingtodointhebasin, lotus. deepintothedensegrowthof publish himbyputtinginawoodenbasinandpushedintothelotuspond, Hisgrandmotherwould themischievousHuang Yongyu always gothimselfintotrouble. Whenhewas achild, Yongyu. The lotushasaspecialsignificanceforHuang Huang Yongyu was borninFenghuang CountyofHunanProvince. 的荷花，也許這是寄託著他兒時的一種情懷。《秋水庵花影》是黃永玉在 推到茂密的荷塘中。困在木盆裡的黃永玉無所作為，只能靠觀察週圍的細節來消磨時間。因此，黃永玉尤其喜歡畫荷塘深處密集 黃永玉生於湖南鳳凰。畫荷花對黃永玉有特殊意義，童年時代，頑皮的黃永玉經常闖禍，外婆為了懲戒他，就把他放在木盆裡， 黃永玉 particularlytheliteratitradition. of classicalChinesepainting, butalsoofthetechniquesandcontext tial aspectoftheirworkwas itsappropriationnotonlyofimagesandthemes, Aquintessen- whichhadprevailed intheheydayofCulturalRevolution. dominant “Revolutionary modelpainting” They andignorethe hadindependentlybeguntobreakaway fromthestereotypeof “ArtPainting”. forpolitics’sake” agroupofartistsgraduallyemergedunderthebanner “New Literati Inthemid-1980s, in1995. Annual Exhibition” Hehad participatedinthe Zeng MeigraduatedfromtheZhejiang “Chinese NewLiteratiPaintingAcademy ofFine Arts. 曾宓畢業於浙江美術學院，曾參加 曾宓 Association. thecouncilmemnberofChinese Artists' vice-president ofBeijingLandscapePainting ResearchInstitute, the NowtheprofessorofCentral Accademy of Arts andCrafts, borninJiangsuProvince1919. Wu Guanzhong, 吳冠中 Foundation in1999andthe Artes Mundi(Artsofthe World) Prizein2004. Hewas awarded theesteemedGenius Award ofMac Arthur Xumoved totheUSA. In1990, Master Degreein1987. XuBingenteredatthePrintmakingDepartmentofCentral Academy ofFine Arts in1977andgainedhis Born in1955, 年獲得美國文化界最高的獎項「麥克 徐冰於 徐冰 象，反映他兼容「理性繪畫」和「生命之流」兩方面的概念。 藝術群體」的創始人之一，亦曾投入「理性繪畫」的行列，然從作品《元化》中所見，那些接近超現實主義的奇幻世界和神話意 筍，當中以「北方藝術群體」尤為特出。這些新團體主要歸納為兩大陣營：「理性繪畫」和「生命之流」繪畫。任戩雖是「北方 展九十餘次，國際藝展百餘次並多次獲得重要獎項。全球已有七十餘間美術博物館收藏其作品。 色淡雅。創作路線朗直、明亮而簡潔。 察感受對其畫藝影響殊深。潘氏他的作品多以名山大川、幽壑為題。作品能糅合中國畫傳統及建築學的透視空間，用筆細緻，設 間，特意為藝術館所繪畫的作品。 1932 july 2005 1965 年生於江蘇省， 年生，山東青州人。 Ren Jian Zeng Mi Xu Bing 1955
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