In addition to the “Chu Teh-Chun Exhibition & Film Screening” event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the French-Chinese abstract artist Chu Teh-Chun, the Art Promotion Gallery also presents another exhibition “Chinese Surrealism” at this year’s Le French May Arts Festival, showcasing works mainly by Hong Kong artists. This exhibition also responds to the collaboration between the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Hong Kong Museum of Art in the exhibition “Beyond Surrealism – Pompidou Center Collection Exhibition,” engaging in an artistic dialogue with a series of French Surrealist works.
Zhuo Jiahui//
“The Chinese Surrealism” presents 15 works from 4 painters and 2 sculptors, each interpreting surrealism through elements from ancient and modern cultures. For example, Hong Kong emerging female painter Zhuo Jiahui, who specializes in meticulous painting, reflects on how traditional beauty can be integrated into the contemporary world after the peak of meticulous painting during the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhang Xiaoli
In her famous “Boxed Landscapes” series, Zhang Xiaoli places unreal landscapes in small boxes, using traditional meticulous painting techniques to depict fragments of memory and experience. The paintings not only depict real objects from the artist’s personal collection, but also conceptual and imaginative elements, expressing wisdom, poetry, and beauty.
Antonia//
“Dreamscape” is an important creative theme for Ant Ying Lam during her studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts. Her works mainly revolve around her personal experiences, Hong Kong landscapes, and city life, using male and female fish-human characters to depict heartwarming and quirky everyday events. Skilled in using colors, she portrays the scenes of hesitation and unspoken conversations between the male and female “fish-human” characters in her works, allowing viewers to savor the “silent dialogues.”
Mo Yixin//
Renowned sculptor Mo Yixin, who serves as the President of the Hong Kong Sculpture Society and a part-time lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Art, has been invited to participate in numerous commissioned and public art projects in Hong Kong and overseas in recent years, including the 2012 “Hong Kong Star Ferry Public Art Project.”
Wu Shaoxiang//
Sculptors participating in the exhibition “Chinese Surrealism” also include Wu Shaoxiang, who is a pioneer of the Chinese modern abstract sculpture movement and an advocate for integrating Western abstract forms into his own creations. He excels at expressing artistic humor through sculpture and uses a style that combines Chinese and Western elements to convey strong social messages.
Mei Aoxue
90s local artist Mei Ao Xue focuses on watercolor painting and digital art creation, exploring different styles, techniques, ideas, creating paintings, illustrations, writing, or simple animations, her works often revolve around themes such as boundaries, relationships, identity, myths, history, culture, etc. She created the tarot card “Eye of the Soul” in 2020, which has become her exclusive divination tool.
Date: May 15 to July 3
Time: (Wednesday to Saturday) 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Location: Artify Gallery, Unit 2305, Hing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
