HKUSPACE Architecture exhibition 2020 aims to share our design ideas to the public, engaging the visitors to discover the potential in our city.

The conceptual ideology of this exhibition is to share the enlightenment of art that Ella Au says she has been fortunate enough to experience in her life. This is a celebration of the monumental role art plays in our lives – it enables us to achieve holism in the anthropological state of our human minds. In her art journey, Au has explored the three selves: the good me, the bad me and the not me.

The exhibition will feature her series “After the Wine”, consisting of around 20 works from the past decade. In Europe, she was inspired by innumerable experiences. At the world-renowned Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in Florence, she focused her explorations on painting and sculpting. In these lengthy encounters, through the percolation of her interactions with a multitude of energies around her soul, she was able to ferment and enrich her understanding of and perspectives towards art.

John started this project in 2011, and says he’s been doing it “just for fun”. He comments: “Maybe these images are ‘reflections of my life’ that are taking me back to my long-ago home. Or maybe it’s a question about whether this city is indeed an emptyscape”.

In 2015, a double-decker bus quietly idles inside the Frontier Closed Area, on Crown Land. Out on the street of England in 1981, decommissioned on this island in 1997, it seemingly has captured the gradual lowering of the Union Jack in our city until its last time. Coincidence? Or history?

Also in the closed area, stands a discoloured motto board in the front of a classroom of an abandoned village school; on it writes, “Don’t live in the past, but live out your best today.”

Perhaps history is only illusionary. Or, it is some kind of melancholy and loss as one “fails to cut away, fiddling into disarray”? But, if there’s no dialogue between today and yesterdays, will tomorrow ever dawn?

This New Territories frontier closed area with the burden of history on its back, that lets us glimpse into the paradox vaguely visible, will it be still there tomorrow? How about the New Territories, Hong Kong……?

To paint dauntlessly.

To paint the flow of invisible realms in textures, colours, light, shadows, and faces. Every stroke a calligraphy of universal energies, an exchange between air and quantum fields, and a transcendence of human vision into multi-dimensionality.

To exist gently between dimensions, where life serves as the repository of all octaves of emotions, logic, souls, and karma.

Photographer Elizabeth Thorn says: “I have long been fascinated by the hidden beauty in natural elements such as light, liquid and force, and the physical interaction between them. While other people have captured stunning physics phenomena with ultra-high-speed cameras, I seek to capture them through inexpensive and accessible ways.

I am influenced by the countless artists who have used abstraction to find unreality in reality in order to stimulate people’s awareness of the process behind an image. Specifically, I have tried to experiment with the identification and isolation of compositions to find form and beauty not just in the details, but also in the elements created unintentionally and unexpectedly.

Every year, students in Hong Kong are encouraged to participate in a theme-based Christmas card design competition hosted by the Australian Consulate-General. This year’s theme is “In this together”.

The purpose of this competition is to encourage young artists to start their own cultural exploration of how they might celebrate Christmas in an Australian summer. 2020 is a year unlike any other. While Australia celebrates Christmas differently compared to northern hemisphere locations like Hong Kong (for example outdoors at a BBQ, at a beach or camping), this year we have much more in common as we share similar challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This exhibition, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Art Museum, is a journey of retrospection and reconstruction from the depths of still waters to the breadth of rivers, leading audiences to delve into the flow of thought of Guangdong cultural elites in relation to arts, culture, and history. It also illustrates the unparalleled efforts and enthusiasm of these pioneers in their quest for applying their learned knowledge of statecraft to practical affairs and attaining a place in the nation’s intellectual community. Featuring around 130 pieces of paintings, calligraphy, and objects by well-known artists during the Ming and Qing dynasties such as Chen Xianzhang, Lin Liang, Zhang Mu and Chen Gongyin, two phases of the exhibition will be held in the spring and autumn of 2021 respectively.

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Simon Lee Gallery is pleased to present German artist Hans-PeterFeldmann’s third solo exhibition at its Hong Kong space. Encompassingworks from across Feldmann’s nearly five-decades long career, this surveyshow includes sculpture, photography, installation, collage, theappropriated image and found object.