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HKU weekly notice (from October 25 to November 1, 2014)

24 Oct 2014

 

HKUL Book Talk: Macao – People and Places, Past and Present
Speaker:  Jason Wordie
Date:  30 October, 2014 (Thursday)
Time:  6:30 – 8:00pm
Venue:  Special Collections, 1/F Main Library
Language:  English

About the Author
Jason Wordie is an established local historian and writer in Hong Kong who gives historical lectures for a variety of community groups and cultural organisations, in addition to various well-known corporate bodies as well as conducting historical walks in Hong Kong, Macao, Canton (Guangzhou) and Humen. Jason’s books include Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2002 and its companion volume Streets: Exploring Kowloon, published 2007 by Hong Kong University Press. For more than ten years, Jason has had a series of regular columns in the South China Morning Post. His current column, Then and Now, appears every week in the Sunday Morning Post’s Post Magazine. 

About the Book
Macao contains abundant corners of appeal and fascination, and enduring links to the past in spite of considerable transformation, and rapid change in recent years. A compelling, multi-layered social history, Macao – People and Places, Past and Present with stunning photographs by Anthony J Hedley and Colin Day - takes the reader on a series of journeys across physical, geographical, chronological and cultural space and time from the Barrier Gate in the north to Coloane in the south. In the process, Jason Wordie reveals the many dimensions that make Macao the uniquely special place that it is – and has always been. The book includes 22 original hand drawn maps by Wee Kek Koon.

Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2014_04.html

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact Marina Yeung by email at mstyeung@hku.hk

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibitions
First time public display in HK: "A Universe Within: Suo Zhenhai's Inside-painted Snuff Bottles"
Period:  September 24, 2014 (Wednesday) to November 2, 2014 (Sunday)

An exhibition of Suo Zhenhai's Inside-painted Snuff Bottles from the Hong Yuan Collection will be on display from September 24 to November 2, 2014 at the University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong (UMAG).

Contemporary miniature painter Suo Zhenhai (1944–2006), a native of Raoyang in Hebei Province, studied the art and culture of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the painterly styles and minutely detailed depictions of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. A prolific artist, he has exhibited internationally and gained a reputation for his finely executed artworks, as well as for his work at the Hengshui Xisan Inside Painting Art Academy where he taught for years. The museum’s exhibition shows some 150 bottles decorated predominantly with landscape painting and genre scenes. Altogether, the array of objects testifies the Master Suo’s ability to represent ‘a universe within’ and to the more wide-spread and still ongoing interest in and high-quality manufacture of a medium cherished for centuries.

The University Museum’s display coincides with the 46th annual convention of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, which will take place first time in Hong Kong.

"Picasso Ceramics"
Period:  September 3, 2014 (Wednesday) to November 2, 2014 (Sunday)

The exhibition “Picasso Ceramics”, from the Nina Miller Collection, provides a unique opportunity to study the sculptural qualities and three-dimensional aspect of Pablo Picasso's work, never before seen in Hong Kong. From World War II to the end of Picasso's life in 1973, the Spanish artist created thousands of carefully sculpted and, often, colourfully glazed, objects that give testimony to his artistic diversity, ingenuity and enormous creative powers.

The exhibition includes more than 100 ceramic works, both Picasso's Madoura editions and unique individual pieces, as well as lithographs and posters designed by the artist, and images by renowned photographers depicting Picasso in his studio and home. Coming from one of the largest collection of the artist's ceramic ware in the world, this is the first time that the London-based Nina Miller Collection is ever seen publicly.

UMAG opening hours:  9:30am to 6:30pm (Monday to Saturday); 1:00 to 6:00pm (Sunday),  closed on University and Public Holidays
Venue:  2/F, T.T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong
Language: English, Cantonese and Putonghua
Fees:  Free Admission

For further information, please visit:
http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/main.html.

For enquiries, please contact Communication Office Ms Elena Cheung by email at elenac@hku.hk or by phone at 22415512.