M+ Matters:
Cantonese Art and Plural Modernities
M+ Matters:
Cantonese Art and Plural Modernities
This public symposium will shed new light on Guangdong's distinctive contributions to Chinese artistic modernism and its place within the current discourses of regional and multiple modernities. Leading experts from universities and museums in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen will consider such topics as the varieties of realism in 20th-century Guangdong painting; the social circulation of images, especially pictorials, woodblock prints, and cartoons; and the propagation of the Lingnan School in Hong Kong and the Cantonese diaspora. The symposium will be conducted in Cantonese and Mandarin, with simultaneous interpretation available in English.
Ongoing since 2012, M+ Matters is a series of public talks and discussions exploring critical issues with key players in the fields of visual art, design and architecture, and moving image with both professionals and members of the general public. Past topics in the series include postwar design and industry in Asia, contemporary ink art, China’s museum boom, and global museums’ collection and display strategies.
Huang Shaoqiang, Listening to One’s Own Music at a Desperate End, 1928. Ink and colour on paper. Collection of Han Mo Xuan, Hong Kong. Image courtesy of Han Mo Xuan
Guan Shanyue, Dujiangyan, 1941. Collection of Guan Shanyue Art Museum. Image courtesy of Guan Shanyue Art Museum
Fang Rending, Mother and Child in the Rain, 1932. Ink and colour on paper. M K Lau Collection, Hong Kong. Image courtesy of M K Lau Collection, Hong Kong
Guan Shanyue's Chinese calligraphy demonstration in the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May, 1980. Image courtesy of the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Huang Shaoqiang, Listening to One’s Own Music at a Desperate End, 1928. Ink and colour on paper. Collection of Han Mo Xuan, Hong Kong. Image courtesy of Han Mo Xuan
Guan Shanyue, Dujiangyan, 1941. Collection of Guan Shanyue Art Museum. Image courtesy of Guan Shanyue Art Museum
Fang Rending, Mother and Child in the Rain, 1932. Ink and colour on paper. M K Lau Collection, Hong Kong. Image courtesy of M K Lau Collection, Hong Kong
Guan Shanyue's Chinese calligraphy demonstration in the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May, 1980. Image courtesy of the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
About the Speakers
Image at top: Fang Rending. Mother and Son in the Rain, 1932. Ink and colour on paper. Photo: Courtesy of M K Lau Collection, Hong Kong.