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HKMoA's new exhibition brings audiences into artists' emotional worlds now and then (with photos)
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     With love letters as the theme, the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)'s new exhibition "Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" features 28 sets of Chinese paintings and calligraphy works selected from its Xubaizhai collection. While inviting audiences to discover the reserved and implicit emotions encapsulated in Chinese paintings and calligraphy, the HKMoA, in a breakthrough method of displaying traditional Chinese ink art, invited Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-wah to create a site-specific video projection installation "Freezing Water: Between Here and There" to bring audiences into the emotional worlds of the artists now and then.
 
     Selected exhibits of the "Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" exhibition include artworks by masters such as Zhang Daqian, Dong Qichang, Wen Zhengming. Their works are like love letters, revealing their sentiments such as romance, family ties, teacher-student bonds, friendship and patriotism.
 
     Local artist Tsang started out creating text and pattern installations with paint and silkscreens, and later moved on to digital projection. He has started to use space in different ways to create sound and video installations through which a relationship is established with an audience. Inspired by the sentiments encapsulated in ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy, Tsang created the large-scale projection installation "Freezing Water: Between Here and There". Taking reference from the classic "one river, two banks" composition of Chinese landscape painting, the artist infused religious, literary and cinematic elements, as well as his personal experience in his work. Through the interplay of contrasting black and white images with high and low-pitched sounds, the artwork leads audiences on a journey to discover their inner feelings and emotional changes.
 
    The first phase of the exhibition and Tsang's art installation are now on display at the Xubaizhai Gallery of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 2/F of the HKMoA (10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon) until August 10. The gallery will be temporarily closed later for a change of exhibits. The second phase of the "Love Letters" exhibition will be launched on September 8, which will be on display with Tsang's installation until January 24 next year. For details of the exhibition, please visit the website at hk.art.museum/en/web/ma/exhibitions-and-events/love-letters-everlasting-sentiments-from-the-xubaizhai-collection-phaseI.html and hk.art.museum/en/web/ma/exhibitions-and-events/tsang-kin-wah-freezing-water-between-here-and-there.html or call 2721 0116 for enquiries.    
 
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"Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" is now on stage at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA). With love letters as the theme, the HKMoA invites audiences to discover the reserved and implicit emotions encapsulated in Chinese paintings and calligraphy.
"Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" is now on stage at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA). With love letters as the theme, the HKMoA invites audiences to discover the reserved and implicit emotions encapsulated in Chinese paintings and calligraphy. Picture shows "Nymph of the Luo River" by Anonymous.
"Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" is now on stage at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA). With love letters as the theme, the HKMoA invites audiences to discover the reserved and implicit emotions encapsulated in Chinese paintings and calligraphy. Picture shows "Tiger", the work of Zhang Daqian's elder brother Zhang Shanzi (1882 - 1940).
"Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" is now on stage at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA). With love letters as the theme, the HKMoA invites audiences to discover the reserved and implicit emotions encapsulated in Chinese paintings and calligraphy. Picture shows the painting "New Year offerings" created together by Xie Gongzhan (1885 - 1940) and his students including Low Chuck-tiew (1911 - 1993).
"Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" is now on stage at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. With love letters as the theme, the exhibition invites audiences to discover the reserved and implicit emotions encapsulated in Chinese paintings and calligraphy. Picture shows "Landscapes and calligraphy in running script" by Dong Qichang (1555 - 1636).
"Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" is now on stage at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA). In a breakthrough method of displaying traditional Chinese ink art, the HKMoA invited Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-wah to create a site-specific video projection installation "Freezing Water: Between Here and There". Picture shows Tsang and his artwork.
"Love Letters: Everlasting Sentiments from the Xubaizhai Collection" is now on stage at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA). In a breakthrough method of displaying traditional Chinese ink art, the HKMoA invited Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-wah to create a site-specific video projection installation. Picture shows Tsang's "Freezing Water: Between Here and There".