HKMA Combined Gallery Tour: ‘Likeness and Unlikeness: A Selection of Works by Qi Baishi from the Liaoning Provincial Museum’ and ‘Hair Dialogue – Installation Art Exhibition’
HKMA Chief Curator Tang Hoi Chiu, Curator of Modern Art, Ms Eve Tam, and Mr Sunny Tang, Asst. Curator of Chinese Paintings will lead us through the exhibition of 80 Qi Baishi’s works selected from the collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum. This will be followed by a tour of the two large-scale installation works at the Contemporary Art Gallery: United Nations Series – China Monument: Temple of Heaven by Gu Wenda, collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and Memorize the Future by Leung Mee Ping, who was specially invited by the museum to enter into a dialogue with Gu’s work. The galleries will be open especially for the Friends.
| Date & Time: | Friday 15 September 2006, 6pm to 7:30pm |
| Venue : | Contemporary Hong Kong Art Gallery at 2/F Chinese Fine Art Gallery at 4/F, H.K. Museum of Art |
| Medium: | Cantonese/ English |
| Cost : | Members $100, students $50, and guests $150 ( Dinner at a nearby restaurant on a shared cost basis ) |
Pablo Picasso (Malaga, Spain 1881 – Mougins, France 1973) Harlequin (Arlequin) 1923 Oil on canvas 130 x 97 cm Bequeathed by Baroness Eva Gourgaud, 1965 Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris AM 4313 P © Succession Picasso 2006 © Adam Rzepka
Gala Evening : Artists and Their Models – Masterpieces from the Pompidou Centre
The Friends of HKMA and the Friends’ Trustees are hosting a gala dinner on Thursday 19 October at the Museum in celebration of the exhibition of masterpieces from the Pompidou Centre, Paris. The evening will begin at 7:00pm with a cocktail reception and viewing of the exhibition, to be followed by dinner and an art auction.
| Date & Time: | Thursday 19 October 2006, 7pm Cocktails and Viewing, 8pm Dinner and Auction |
| Venue : | Hong Kong Museum of Art |
| Cost : | Table of 10 persons for $25,000 |
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The Friends’ Autumn Programme ‘KNOW YOUR HONG KONG’ Series
A series of events during the fall season will focus on various aspects of local history and culture:
Battlefield Visit to Wong Nei Chung Gap
| Date & Time: | Saturday 30 September 2006, 9am to about 2:30pm |
| Cost : | Members $500 lunch at the Crown Wine Cellars, Shouson Hill (coach service included ) |
Mr. Ko Tim Keung, a noted Hong Kong historian, will lead the Friends on a stroll along Wong Nei Chung Gap (a two kilometer family walk) to visit World War II sites and relics including pillboxes, bunkers, anti-aircraft platform and tunnels. Wong Nei Chung Gap saw the bloodiest fighting in the defense of Hong Kong during the war. Heavy casualties were sustained, with more than 1,000 soldiers dead or wounded during the conflict. The Gap has recently been designated by the Hong Kong Tourism Commission as a heritage trail. Tim will recount war scenes in detail, in particular how the Japanese stormed the British position, the heroics displayed by the fiercely loyal infantries, and how Hong Kong was cut into two halves after the fall of Wong Nei Chung Gap. Tim has written several books on Hong Kong History, including “Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation”, and has advised the Government on preservation projects including the planning and development of heritage trails.Lunch will be served at the privately-owned Crown Wine Cellars, Shouson Hill. The cellars were built in what were originally bunkers known as the Central Ordinance (Munitions) Depot, constructed as part of the war preparatory effort in 1937. The place was affectionately called by the British army as Little Hong Kong, a name which was heard by Japanese intelligence and therefore perhaps explains why Aberdeen was heavily bombed by the Japanese during the invasion. Lunch will be preceded by a short tour of the Little Hong Kong bunker facilities.
Outing to Tai O Village
| Date & Time: | Saturday 18 November 2006, 9am to about 6pm |
| Cost : | Members $500 ( lunch and coach service included ) |
Tai O, a village in the outlying district, is arguably the area that has been least affected by Hong Kong’s massive urbanization. Even today, the enclave enjoys its own rural way of life. The population is comprised of a diverse mix of Hoklo, Punti, Hakka and Cantonese, each group getting on with their own way of life. Tai O has historically been a fishing village, sitting by the mouth of Pearl River, and it has also been an important salt producing centre. Unused salt pans are still very much in evidence. A lot of original culture have been preserved, and are still practiced. A specially prepared lunch, with Tai O characteristics, will be served in a local restaurant.
The outing will be led by Professor Liu Tik Sang and Professor Cheung Siu Wo of the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Both professors grew up in Tai O and have recently collaborated in an anthropological study of Tai O. Another leader will be Ms. Susanna Siu, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong, who will tell us of the history, local architectural features and recent efforts to preserve the old temples in the district.
Visit to Tung Wah Group’s headquarters, Man Mo Temple and Tung Wah Charitable Coffin Home
| Date & Time: | Saturday 2 December 2006, 10am to 2pm |
| Cost : | Members $200 ( coach service included ) |
The history of the Tung Wah Group is a record of the struggle for survival, of tradition and brotherhood, of care and benevolence, of fraternity and selflessness of the Chinese populace in 19th and 20th century Hong Kong. Apart from providing free medical care to the sick, the Group also looked after funeral services for the poor and the destitute. In the late 19th and early 20th century, a new wave of emigrants sent millions of Chinese to different corners of the world. For the Chinese of that era steeped in Confucius traditions, the desire to have their body buried in one’s home village was a high priority in life. Each year, thousands of coffins containing the bodies of overseas Chinese would arrive Hong Kong. There they stayed, awaiting clearance, before making their final journey to the home village for burial. As coffins accumulated in Hong Kong, the Tung Wah Group became the sole charitable body to provide a temporary resting place for these souls.
The Tung Wah Coffin Home started in the late 19th century from the humble beginnings of a temporary shed to become a complex of buildings that represent some of the best and archetypal Hong Kong architecture through the ages. Now largely in disuse, the Home has undergone a recent restoration, for which an award was given by the Hong Kong Government’s Antiquities and Monuments Office. In 2005, the restoration and preservation work were honored with a Heritage Award by UNESCO.
The Coffin Home is generally not open to the public. The Friends are privileged that Tung Wah has given permission for our visit. to the Coffin Home as well as their Headquarter in Sheung Wan, with a side tour to Man Mo Temple where Tung Wah officials congregate each year to pray for peace and prosperity. Tung Wah curators will explicate the decorative style of the Main Hall while Ms. Stella See, the Administrative Officer of Tung Wah who oversaw the restoration work of the Coffin Home, will receive us at Pokfulam and brief us on the architectural features of the buildings of the various periods.
FUTURE EVENTS
| January 2007 | Fo Tan Art ‘ Village’ |
| January / February 2007 | Tsing Shan Monastery |
TRIPS
| 10-12 November 2006 | Beijing Tour – A behind-the-scenes visit to the Forbidden City |
(For more details on trip please refer to separate notice to come )
| Spring 2007 | BURMA - The Unexplored Burma |
| Summer 2007 | RUSSIA |
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