Pablo Picasso: Paintings in Glass

University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG)  90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

WHAT In the mid-1950s, the workshops of Roger Malherbe-Navarre expanded on the light boxes of French painter, Jean Crotti, by layering pieces of glass into pictorial depictions (gemmail, French for ‘enamel gem’) of several of Picasso’s paintings. Impressed by the gemmistes’ masterful assembling and fusing of carefully selected glass, Picasso quickly became a fan and…

Across Time and Space: Re-visiting Twentieth-Century Chinese Oil Paintings

University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG)  90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

WHAT The exhibition highlights the versatility of Chinese oil paintings across a diverse spectrum of themes, styles, techniques, time periods, and regional and local characteristics. Works range from intimate interior views to panoramic coastal landscapes, and from collective and individual memories to urban scenes. The selected works represent various artistic styles and visual trends along…

Adrift in Time

University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG)  90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

WHAT Hong Kong-born and French-educated, the presentation of Chun Wai’s works is a series of photographs the artist took in France between the 1980s and 1990s. The artist’s main focus was on the finite quality of time and the effect it has, and this quality is visible in his photos. After being stored in a…