Education Programme at Fine Art Asia 2024
5 October 2024
Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Saturday, 5 October, 15:30-16:30
“Ode to Life: The Legacy of Fang Zhaoling”
In this panel discussion on the legacy of Fang Zhaoling (1914-2006), speakers will discuss and share personal anecdotes on the artist's career, practice, and life journey as one of the most original innovators of modern Chinese ink painting and a beacon reinventing the possibilities of women in art during the tumultuous 20th century.
Speakers:
Dr. David Fang, Chairman, Fang Zhaoling Foundation
Hugh Moss, writer, artist, curator
Whang Shang Ying, Nanshun Shanfang Collection, Singapore
Jennifer K. Y. Lam, Curator, National Gallery Singapore
Moderator: Joyce Hei-ting Wong, Representative, Ink Society
In English
Saturday, 5 October, 17:00-18:00
“A Teaching Collection of National Renown at The Chinese University of Hong Kong”
Dr. Josh Yiu, Director, Art Museum at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
When the nascent Chinese University of Hong Kong started planning for an art gallery in the early 1970s, the university had only been around for a few years. It did not dream of having a world-class collection. How did it end up with one after a few decades? Hear what Museum Director Josh Yiu has to share.
In English
Biographies
David Fang
Dr. David Fang Jinsheng is the youngest of eight children of the artist Fang Zhaoling and Chairman of the Fang Zhaoling Foundation. He is a private orthopaedic surgeon and a tenor singer. Dr Fang continues to contribute to the University of Hong Kong as Honorary Professor of the Medical Faculty and Honorary Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Hugh Moss
Author, artist, and collector with rich experience in Chinese and Japanese art dealing, Hugh Moss has been living in Hong Kong since 1975. He writes extensive articles, books, and lectures on Chinese snuff bottles, other aspects of Chinese art, including late Qing and modern paintings. His publications, to name a few, include The Art of Understanding Art - A New Perspective (2015), This Snuff Bottle Monkey Business (2012), the FranzArt Collection series with Hedda Franz, Stuart Sargent, and Peter Suart, Beyond the Stage of Time: The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, which celebrates his extraordinary life and career, and the latest 2022 publication, Art Reboot. A transcultural re- evaluation of the nature and purpose of art that finds in China’s ancient past the resolution of global confusion in the modern art world. Over a quarter of a century, he became recognized as a transcultural artist in the ink-painting tradition of Chinese ink-painting, with multiple exhibitions (Beijing, Wuhan, including a recent exhibition at the new modern art museum, Qintai Wuhan Art Mueum, Shanghai, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New York) and catalogues. Currently he is focused mainly on painting and writing, mostly about Chinese art.
Whang Shang Ying
Nanshun Shanfang is the collection name of Shang Ying Whang, whose principal collecting interest is modern ink works. Shang Ying grew up in Singapore and studied in the UK where he obtained a law degree from Oxford University. In his early thirties, he worked in Hong Kong, where he was exposed to works of the New Ink practitioners such as Lui Shou-kwan and Irene Chou, stimulating his collecting interest. In the second half of the last century, artists of the Chinese diaspora—living in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States and Singapore—developed Chinese painting in exciting ways. Shang Ying is intrigued by their diverse responses to new environments, as they assimilated concepts of modernism while remaining faithful to the traditional medium of ink, brush and paper. Shang Ying is a Board member of the National Gallery Singapore.
Jennifer K. Y. Lam
Jennifer K. Y. Lam is currently a curator at the National Gallery Singapore and have been actively contributing to its permanent galleries and changing exhibitions such as Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection (2017), (Re)Collect: The Making of Our Art Collection (2018), and Wu Guanzhong: Expressions of Pen & Palette (2018). Read in Art History from The University of Hong Kong, she also holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art. Her research interest lies in epistemology through curation, collection building, art of Singapore and the ink medium.
Professor Josh Yiu
Prof. Josh Yiu is the Director of the Art Museum at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his B.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago, and completed his doctorate at Oxford University. From 2006 to 2013, he was the Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum. At CUHK, he has supervised over thirty special exhibitions, acquired over 400 artworks, digitized the collection, launched online education programs, presented CUHK’s collection nationally and internationally, and initiated the museum expansion project. A scholar in late imperial and modern Chinese art, he also serves as an advisor to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, a mentor in the Hong Kong NGO Governance Programme, and an international consultant to the National Art Museum of China.