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This spring, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Art Museum presents a series of special exhibitions – Celebrating the Year of the Tiger, Artistic Crosscurrents from Guangdong: Selected Painting and Calligraphy from Late Qing to Republican China (Collection of the Art Museum, CUHK), and Enchanting Expeditions: Chinese Trade Porcelains across the Globe. All members of the public are welcome, and entry is free.

Visitors can stay tuned to the Art Museum’s website or social media platforms for latest updates on the exhibition dates, opening hours and arrangements.

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger

The Art Museum celebrates the Year of the Tiger with a selection of tiger-related artefacts from the collection of the museum and Huai Hai Tang. Featuring paintings, calligraphies, seals, and ceramics, the exhibition demonstrates the apotropaic nature of the fierce felines and the worship they enjoyed in traditional Chinese culture. Often depicted alongside deities and Luohan monks, tigers served as witnesses to the magical powers of immortals. Their different artistic representations also reflect cultural exchanges over time.

Some of the exhibits are also featured at Lee Gardens in Causeway Bay with digital and immersive displays during Chinese New Year. Moreover, the Art Museum offers an online tour of the exhibits on the Google Arts and Culture platform, allowing people to immerse in the art world during the pandemic.

Artistic Crosscurrents from Guangdong: Selected Painting and Calligraphy from Late Qing to Republican China (Collection of the Art Museum, CUHK)

Artistic Crosscurrents from Guangdong details the region’s development of connoisseurship, calligraphy and painting during turbulent times, and the activities and contributions of Guangdong elites in cities including Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in the late Qing dynasty and the Republican era. The exhibition showcases a host of distinctive paintings, calligraphy, seals and rubbings, capturing the essence of Guangdong arts and culture.

The exhibition features masterpieces by renowned artists such as Ju Chao, Ju Lian, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, and Chen Shuren of the Lingnan School of Painting, as well as Zhao Haogong, Lu Zhenhuan, Yao Lixiu, Li Yanshan, and Huang Bore of the National Painting Research Society. Calligraphic works by significant scholars and politicians like Chen Li, Li Wentien, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen, Hu Hanmin, and Ye Gongchuo are also on display. Rubbings of paramount artistic and historical value together with the Sheng Xuanhuai Archive offer new insights into the history and culture of Guangdong.

Enchanting Expeditions: Chinese Trade Porcelains across the Globe

The six exhibition zones, with textual records and historical images, showcase over 400 pieces (sets) of trade porcelains and related objects, providing an overview of the Sino-European maritime trade in porcelain during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The exhibition aims to reconstruct the design, manufacture, transport and sale processes of Chinese export porcelains, and the functions and influences of those porcelains in overseas markets. It also invites visitors to travel back in time and see how Ming and Qing porcelains profoundly impacted the porcelain industry globally.

Public Enquiries: artmuseum@cuhk.edu.hk / 3943-7416

To download exhibition images and exhibit highlights, please scan the QR code or click onto the link below.

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