Art Personalised: Masterpieces from the Hong Kong Museum of Art

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“Art Personalised: Masterpieces from the Hong Kong Museum of Art” exhibition will be held at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) from June 30. Featuring nearly 100 artworks of different styles from ancient and modern times from the museum’s rich collection, the exhibits are grouped in four personality types for display, offering visitors an interactive and interesting way to appreciate art and enabling them to embark on a personalised aesthetic journey.

Visitors are encouraged to take a personality test before their visits to find out their personality types. Then, based on the test results, they can enter the four different exhibition zones, namely Adventurer, Perfectionist, Elegance and Fashionista, to appreciate their exclusive artworks on display in line with their personality types. Highlight exhibits include Wu Guanzhong’s “Wind from the sea”, Lam Yau-sum’s “Metal tree”, a jar with dragons amid wave design in underglaze blue from the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty, a tea bowl with hare’s fur striations in black glaze, Jianyang ware of Fujian from the Northern Song dynasty, and Zhang Wei’s “Fountain‧Fan Kuan vs Duchamp”. The HKMoA has invited artist Joey Leung to custom-make corresponding hand-painted characters for the selected artworks in the personality test while five exclusive scents are also crafted for different exhibition zones by the Hong Kong brand Scentory, and limited-edition scented stickers will be distributed in the exhibition gallery.

The HKMoA has also invited two Hong Kong artists Angela Yuen and Bovey Lee to create new site-specific art installations with inspiration from the museum collection. Angela Yuen used found objects and turned them into a kinetic art installation “Land Ho!”. The interplay of light and shadow creates a dreamy landscape that expresses her feelings towards Hong Kong’s diverse culture. Cut paper artist Bovey Lee frequently travels between Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Her artwork “Bird Song‧Flower Scent” features a large pond with ripples hand-cut by the artist, constructing a world of beauty that blends reality and illusion with the technology of augmented reality, and honouring and promoting Chinese traditional craftsmanship in a contemporary sense. The artwork also reflects her nostalgia for her homeland in a foreign land.