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"Art><Creativity" exhibition series in Greater Bay Area opens in Zhongshan (with photos)
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     Co-organised by the Art Promotion Office under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) and the Hong Kong Designers Association, the third exhibition "Traversing Past and Present" of the second round of the "Art><Creativity" exhibition series in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) is open to the public until February 12 next year at Tio Gallery in Zhongshan (closed from  January 19 to 25 during the Chinese New Year). The creative collaboration of Hong Kong artist Cherie Cheuk and designer Jack Lau enables audiences to traverse past and present and study the history-rich traditional Chinese gongbi painting from multiple perspectives.
          
     As one of the traditional Chinese painting techniques, gongbi requires dense and intricate brush strokes to deftly depict subject matters, such as landscapes, human figures, flowers, birds and animals, with layers of diffused colouring to enhance the images in the paintings. Artist Cheuk extracts artistic nourishment from reading historical literature and copying ancient paintings. Her works in this exhibition have an abundance of traditional features, such as flowers, birds, animals, and Lingnan objects and landscapes. She also reconstructed various scenes and objects that traverse the past and present. She applied the gongbi technique in her works to tell modern stories, combining different customs and objects, such as the brush pot in the studio of the literati, gongbi bird paintings by anonymous artists, and peacock flowers in floral-themed scroll paintings, a creative process comparable to wandering through Sham Shui Po's textile market to pick out one's favourite fabrics.
          
     Designer Lau used technology to turn gongbi paintings into animated images. He used augmented reality to construct lifelike birds, famous ancient trees, streams and rivers once delicately drawn by other artists, enabling the imagination and reconstruction of ancient scenes for modern audiences and taking them on a "Visual Journey in Gongbi". Visitors can browse the website on their mobile phones and choose the painting details and thematic colour tones from the fabric installation in the exhibition. The built-in artificial intelligence on the website generates a short video with unique personalised features, thus making images of antiquity on silk and other materials come alive in the virtual world.
             
     The "Art><Creativity" exhibition series in the Greater Bay Area is presented by the LCSD, co-organised by the Art Promotion Office and the Hong Kong Designers Association, with Shenzhen Fringe Art Centre being the project partner. The second round has commenced to feature five physical and online art exhibitions held in the other five cities in the GBA - Huizhou, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing - and showcase 10 Hong Kong artists and designers or designer groups.
          
     For details of the exhibition series, please visit the website of the Art Promotion Office www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/APO/en_US/web/apo/traversing_past_and_present.html and follow the "apo.there" page on Facebook and Weibo, or call 2512 3000.
 
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Co-organised by the Art Promotion Office and the Hong Kong Designers Association, the third exhibition of the second round of the "Art >< Creativity" exhibition series in the Greater Bay Area, "Traversing Past and Present", is open until February 12 next year at Tio Gallery in Zhongshan.
Co-organised by the Art Promotion Office and the Hong Kong Designers Association, the third exhibition of the second round of the "Art >< Creativity" exhibition series in the Greater Bay Area, "Traversing Past and Present", is open until February 12 next year at Tio Gallery in Zhongshan.
Co-organised by the Art Promotion Office and the Hong Kong Designers Association, the third exhibition of the second round of the "Art >< Creativity" exhibition series in the Greater Bay Area, "Traversing Past and Present", is open until February 12 next year at Tio Gallery in Zhongshan. Photo shows a visitor using augmented reality technology to explore an artwork designed by Jack Lau.
Co-organised by the Art Promotion Office and the Hong Kong Designers Association, the third exhibition of the second round of the "Art >< Creativity" exhibition series in the Greater Bay Area, "Traversing Past and Present", is open until February 12 next year at Tio Gallery in Zhongshan. Photo shows artwork "Ink Monkeys and Treasures of the Study" by artist Cherie Cheuk.