Art day on 1/3

Last Sunday (1/3) was my Art Day. I went to visit a few exhibition in Admiralty and Central.

The first was The Hong Kong Jockey Club Presents: Light and Shadows - Caravaggio • The Italian Baroque Master in Pacific Place. It was just a pre-show of "Supper at Emmaus"(1606) , which is the work of the 16th century Italian artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The painting is being projected in the big screen featuring a video guided tour.

The exhibition poster

The admission ticket of the show

Meanwhile, I registered for visiting the exhibition at Asia Society Centre on 15/3. I have appreciated another Caravaggio's "Supper at Emmaus" (1601) in London National Gallery during my exchange to UK last year. Therefore, I look forward to seeing another masterpiece of from Caravaggio's "Supper at Emmanus"collection and also the co-exhibition of the HK artists next Saturday.


Then I went to the newly opened gallery by Christie's auction House in Alexandar House. The James Christie Room shows different kinds of collections, ranging from Asian 20th century and contemporary art, Chinese ceramics and works of art, Chinese classical and modern paintings to jewellery and jadeite, watches and fine wine.

newly opened James Christie Room

Meryl Streep by Andy Wahol

Untitled by Zeng Fan-zhi (in the right)

Highlights include works from modern artists such as Andy Wahol, Zeng Fanzhi, Ju Ming, Liu Kuo-Sung and Xu Beihong, to impressionist paintings by Monet and Pissaro.

The final station of my visit was the galleries in the Pedder Building. Originally, I wanted to see the fish lamp installation by Frank Gehry in Gagosian Gallery. Unfortunately, the exhibition was closed. So I turned to Hanart TZ Gallery. CHOW Chun Fai is an artist of Hanart TZ Gallery and held 4 exhibitions there. That was not the showing time of his works there but still there were a lot of other interesting contemporary art pieces.

A new exhibition by Yuan Jai

Combination of traditional Gongbi technique with bright color painting in Yuan Jia's fantasy world

A collection from FengMengbo - 3 screen-captures of games in different levels, featuring Chinese-related theme in the background

The collection of paintings can be found in this installation

Long March: It becomes a genuine video game that allow the audiences to play in order to access his works

The last gallery I visited was Ben Brown. There was Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne's exhibition. The whole gallery became a part of their installation which themed the natural environment.

Installation of sheep in grassland

Animals around the candle lamp and table made of "branches"

Who is Chow Chun Fai?

Chow Chun Fai 周俊輝

•       born in Hong Kong in 1980

•       graduated from the CUHK

–      Bachelor of Arts (2003)

–      Master of Fine Arts (2006)

•        Award winners of

–      Hong Kong Arts Centre 30^thAnniversary Award Grand Prize

–      Sovereign Asian Art Prize…

•       Chairman of Fotanian Artist Village

•       Candidate of 2012 HK Legco election

–      Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency

His artwork includes mixed media work, painting, photography, video art…

Most significant series:

1.       Oil Painting

• Started from 2001
• Oil on canvas
• Theme based on his livelihood

§  Hong Kong Taxi Series

§  Hong Kong Street Series



Taxi (2003)



Mong Kok, Sai Yeung Choi Street (2004)

2.       Photo installation

• Started from 2005
• Reproducing Western classical painting
• Renaissance Trilogy (2005)



"Last Supper", Renaissance Trilogy I (2005)

"Creation of Adam", Renaissance Trilogy II (2006)

"Academy", Renaissance Trilogy III (2006)

3.       Painting on movie

• Started from 2006
• enamel paint on canvas
• shot and caption from local movie scene

Escape the Giang Hu world (2006)

My first time to meet the works of CHOW CHUN FAI

The artist I have chosen is CHOW CHUN FAI.

The first time I know about this artist and appreciate his work was in the "Annual Art Exhibition 2005" of the Chinese University of Hong Kong...

At that time, I was just a secondary 3 student who was brought by my Art teacher for the visit. I don't even know who Chow Chui Fai is actually... But to me, his Renaissance Trilogy has become the most impressive work in the show and I started to remember the name of “Chow Chun Fai”.

"Last Supper", Renaissance Trilogy I

Photo Installation made of 2204 pieces of 3R photos

Comparison with the original work: The original "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci



"Creation of Adam", Renaissance Trilogy II

Comparison with the original work: The original "Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo in Sistine Chapel in Vatican
I was actually quite disappointed after seeing the original work.



"Academy", Renaissance Trilogy III
Photo Installation made of 2904 pieces of 3R photos

Comparison with the original work: This photo of the original "School of Athens"(by Raphael) was taken by me when I went to Vatican visit on 25/3/2013

I was so excited to see these works. They were familiar to me, as I recognized that they are reproduction of the 3 classical Western masterpieces which I learnt from history textbook. I didn’t realize the meaning the artist wanted to express; rather I just think it is full of fun and humor in which all characters in the installation are the same person (I discovered that the character was the artist himself later). This made his works stood out of the other artists’ exhibits in the show.