Hong Kong Museum of Art
When travelling it absolutely pays to amble into galleries. Hong Kong has many charms, but it's also all busy traffic and when you look like such a gringo, hassle from copycat handbag salesmen. So, escaping into the Hong Kong Museum of Art is a great way to balance your yings and yangs.
Disappointingly the permanent contemporary art collection was closed (boooo) and the painting gallery was showing only calligraphy. But there was a small miracle going on in the temporary exhibition space.
I'm new to traditional Chinese painting but this retrospective of the work of Chinese artist Johnson Chow Su-sing was a marvel. The landscape paintings were spectacular, particularly the epic vistas of the Chinese mountain and river regions.
I was told somewhere that traditional Chinese landscape painting should depict time, as well as space, and this is why you often see the same people or subjects reappearing in small vignettes throughout the picture, evolving as time passes. Very cool stuff.
One complaint about this exhibition: where the feck was the merch?? The citizens demand softback catalogues!
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| Johnson Chow Su-sing: Two Shores |
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