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Gaylord Chan at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

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Gaylord Chan /Never End: The Art and Life of Gaylord Chan /Jun 19 – Sep 29, 2024 / Chantal Miller Gallery Asia Society Hong Kong Center9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong KongTuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pmLast Thursday of every month: 11am – 8pmClosed on MondayFree admission asiasociety.org.hk Widely respected and beloved as one of Hong Kong’s most original painters, Gaylord Chan (1925-2020) had a dynamic career that traversed cultural epochs and broke the boundaries of medium. The exhibition will celebrate Gaylord Chan’s artistic legacy with over 100 artworks alongside never seen before historical footage from the different stages of his life. The exhibition will be presented in four sections which examine Chan’s unique practice and creativity.  (I) “The Grammar of Painting” explores Chan’s role as an artist and educator. Centered on his “fifteen-word truth” on painting, this section features a selection of works spanning the 1960s to 2000s that explore the essential elements of the artist’s visual language and offer the audience ways to decipher his inventive brand of abstraction.  (II) “Glyphs of Innocence and Experience” focuses on …

Tai Kwun

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By Elliat Albrecht Hong Kong has a soft spot for crime and police stories. Films about gangs, double agents and bloody conflicts have long been a mainstay of local cinema. There is an underlying psychological reason: a surge of public interest in the genre occurred in the 1980s, coinciding with the UK and China’s negotiations over the 1997 handover. Amid anxiety about the political future, the movies often depicted the goings-on of crime syndicates and their clashes with authority to explore themes of loyalty, heroism and chaos. This blue-coat fascination laid the foundation for some of the most significant pop culture of the 1980s – and continues to provide inspiration today, in the form of the city’s newest cultural institution. While Hong Kong awaits the opening of M+, its much-anticipated major museum of visual culture, the recently opened Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage & Arts is poised to tick the mid-size museum box. Built on a historical site, the 19th-century Central Police Station compound on Hollywood Road, Tai Kwun has an unusual cross-disciplinary remit. The …

Caroline Chiu & Paul Aiello

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Caroline Chiu, RTHK Radio 4 presenter and art critic with her husband Paul Aiello, discusses three of her favourite pieces from their collection. Chiu saw Chris Huen Sin Kan’s solo exhibition Out of the Ordinary at Gallery Exit in 2015. His ease with painting on a large scale, his sense of allowing white space to exist, without having to fill every inch of the canvas up, exuded confidence. In that show, there was a painting where his girlfriend, now wife, was sitting on Shek O beach. Chiu fell in love with the abstractness of it, but it had already sold. Chiu had bought and renovated an old village house in Shek O and was living there with her family. Falling in love with the location, she began to think about commissioning Hong Kong artists to explore it as an art subject. She visited Shek O Headland with Huen in spring 2016, showing him the most southeasterly point of Hong Kong island, a small outcrop of rock surrounded by the roaring sea. Chiu visited Huen’s studio in July …