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Pablo Picasso: Paintings in Glass
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT 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, PokfulamWHAT 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…
Potted and Painted: The Production and Technical Development of Underglaze Blue Porcelain in China
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHO UMAG WHAT The antiques exhibition traces the evolution of blue-and-white ceramics by displaying a series of porcelain works across the Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644), and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, during which time they gained huge popularity. Audiences have the chance to explore the evolution of this beautiful colour scheme, which has always been popular around…
Alberto Reguera: Homage to Aert van der Neer
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT Dazzled by the twilight of 17th-century painter Aert van der Neer’s (1603–77) 'Moonlit Landscape with a Road beside a Canal (1645–50)', contemporary Spanish artist, Alberto Reguera, created a new series of paintings as an homage to the celebrated artist of the Dutch Golden Age. Each of the paintings display an in-depth study of the…
Enduring Strength and Passion
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT The presentation is a retrospective exhibition of Master Ting Yin Yung (1902-1978)’s multi-faceted work in commemoration of his 120th anniversary. A native of Guangdong province, the well-respected artist had studied Western painting in Tokyo before returning to China and then moving to Hong Kong in 1949, where he further developed his artistic practice. His…
Past and Present: Paintings by Brian Tilbrook
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT In this newest exhibition, the renowned Hong Kong artist’s artwork is laid out as a retrospective, honouring his vast career in art. Born in England in 1932 and living in Hong Kong from 1965, a large portion of Tilbrook’s art career unfolded in Hong Kong. Collected for years by such local stalwarts as Hongkong…
Eternal Transience, Enlightened Wisdom: Masterpieces of Buddhist Art
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT The exhibition of more than 30 artworks from Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan and Mongolia dates from the 7th–18th century. The exhibition is composed primarily of bronze statues and thangkas of deities and gurus in Tibetan Buddhism. This public display has been assembled to complement HKU’s international symposium featuring the life and legacy of the late…
Noda Tetsuya’s Diary of Contemporary Japanese Prints
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT The exhibition showcases the celebrated Japanese artist’s life (born in 1940) in post-war era Japan. Through the use of photography, traditional Japanese woodblock painting, and eclectic methods such as silkscreen printing, Noda presents the ideological, social, economic, and artistic changes of the time while also depicting his everyday life from his friends and family…
Adrift in Time
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT 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…
Colours of Congo
University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) 90 Bonham Road, PokfulamWHAT WE KNOW The exhibition highlights a wide variety of paintings created by artists in the Congo Basin (Central Africa) from the mid-1920s to 1960s, starting from when artist Georges Thiry from Belgium first spotted painted murals of crocodiles and birds by a local painter. Starting a painting workshop for the indigenous population of Elisabethville…
