Winter Migration-Art for Christmas

Artists: A Hai, Chan Pui Leng, Peggy,  Frank Vigneron, Huang Wei, Liu Ke, Sim Chan , Winnie Mak, Wei Qing Ji ,Yeung Wing San, Vincent

 A Hai

Interlacing the sense of nothingness of contemporary individuals and the deep root of traditional Chinese art, A Hai’s recent works feature the intrinsic integration of today and the past by adding a touch of memory to the vagrant individuals. The artist is characterized by his addition of the poetic and calligraphic qualities of tradition Chinese paintings into the memories of time.

Chan Pui Leng, Peggy

Peggy CHAN received her Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.  She currently lives in Hong Kong and has a studio at the Cattle Depot Artists’ Village.  Her works include paintings, photographs, videos and installations, and are inspired mainly by her daily-life experiences and imagination, exploring the triangular relationship between the individual, the city and nature.  She has previously participated “The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition” CAFA Art museum, Beijing 2015, “Sparkle! After One Hundred” Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong 2015, “DMZ Internation Outdoor Installation Art Festival” Korea DMZ Peace 2014,etc.; also exhibited in Macau, Paris, Korea and Beijing. Her solo exhibitions have included “Beyond”, Lucie Chang Fine Arts, Hong Kong 2015; “it’s blue there” at Fringe Club, Hong Kong (2014) and “Blueprint” at Galerie Bievre, Paris (2013). She work selected by Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2014-15. CHAN is the Chairman of the non-profit organization ‘Art Together’ which promote local visual arts through a wide-ranging activities focusing on public and community art.

Frank Vigneron

Professor Frank Vigneron was born in 1965 in Hong Kong. He received a PhD in Chinese Art History from the Paris VII University, a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Paris IV Sorbonne University and a Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Frank Vigneron has lived in Hong Kong since 1990. He joined the Department of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004 where he is now professor. He teaches courses on the History of Western Art, art theory, as well as Chinese and Western comparative aesthetics. His research focus is on the history of Chinese painting from the 18th century onwards and on different aspects of contemporary Chinese art seen in a global context.

Huang Wei

Born in Inner Mongolia of Baotou City in 1985, Huang Wei received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chinese Painting from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art in 2011 and then went on to complete his Master Degree in Arts from the Art Institute of University of Tibet in 2014. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

Huang’s work features the religion painting of Tibet. After graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, he had been to Tibet for 3 years. During the stay in Tibet, he learnt the deep root of traditional Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Art by visiting various Temples and Museums. He had finished a Thangka painting ( ahighly colourful Tubetan Buddhist painting on cotton, or silk, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala ) followed a Tibetan artist. What he had learnt from that not only the techniques of Tibetan Art, but also the status of calmness and concentration. With the understanding of Tibetan Buddhism, his work synthesizes the tradition of the art, religious and philosophy of Tibet, with a unique artistic language and independent contemplation into a succinct way.

1976, Born in Nin xiang of Hunan Province of china. 2003, Graduated as a master from Guangzhou academy of fine arts Associate professor of oil painting department of guangzhou academy of fine arts Lives and works in Guangzhou.

Winnie MAK was born in Hong Kong. She lives and works in Hong Kong, and creates ink art on a full-time basis. She studied Chinese ink painting and calligraphy in Calgary, Canada in the 1980s. She attended workshops organised by the late LEE Byng, the foremost watercolourist from Hong Kong, and the late Chin Shek LAM, a leading contemporary Chinese ink painter based in Canada.

Wei Qing Ji

Wei Qingji was born in Tsingtao, Shandong province of China. He graduated from Oriental Art Department, Nankai University with Bachelor of Arts in 1995. He got his postgraduate qualification from Mural Department of the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts and Master of Arts from Wuhan University of Technology, College of Art and Design in year 2003 and 2008 respectively. He is now Associate Professor in College of Fine Arts, South China Normal University,Guangzhou. Wen Qingji has successfully integrated innovation into traditional ink painting by connecting the Literati spirit with post-modern art flavor and his close attention to the social changes of contemporary China. Using logos, signs and iconic images that everyone would identify. There is a lot of humor in

Weiˇs art, but ultimately it focuses on the question of how the different worldˇs of the East and the West meet. In Weiˇs art the deep black glow, masterful techniques and striking figures make a lasting impression on the viewer. Even though Weiˇs art is embedded in the long tradition of transformation of Chinese art, it is truly distinctive and highly original.

 

Yeung Wing San, Vincent

Vincent Yeung graduated from the Fine Arts department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016. To get rid of hunger, he has been practicing smiling. Still, he wishes someday he could read before daybreak, fish in the morning, and paint afternoon, without ever becoming an intellectual, fisherman, or artist.