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"