Hong Kong Art Week 2017 – “ARTROPOLIS”
A 12-day festival celebrating a city dedicated to the latest in contemporary culture
Supported by over 50 galleries and organised by the Hong Kong Gallery Association (“HKAGA”), HK Art Week is a continuous effort to nurture public engagement with art and celebrate the city’s vibrant art community. The presentation of the Art Car marked the official start of Art Week. This Super Formula SF13 race car was given a design makeover by Hong Kong based French photographer Cyril Delettre, and will be on public view until 21 November.
Under his project theme – Eclosions, the artist transformed his photographs of Hong Kong street scenes into kaleidoscopic images, which he used to cover the entire car body. Guests also had their first taste of a new cocktail, “Formula 2k”, created by mixologists at Four Season's Blue Bar especially for HK Art Week.
Billed as one of the highlights of the Hong Kong cultural calendar, HK Art Week, which takes place till 21 November, features a diverse programme of activities for the public to engage with art and interact with the city’s art community. It is a culmination of efforts by gallery owners, art experts and curators that will appeal to anyone from seasoned collectors, to young professionals, to families with children. Special events include an Art Day at South Island, the Art Symposium - titled "Asia: New Frontiers in Art" – the Gallery Walk for Charity and a Family Art Day, making this edition of HK Art Week a true embodiment of our city's thriving cultural scene.
Other highlights include The Gallery Walk for Charity (21 November), where participants will see the first ever collaboration between the Hong Kong Ballet and HKAGA (Founded in 2012, HKAGA is a member-based non-profit organisation of established art galleries in Hong Kong), see latest art exhibitions and sample complimentary wines and canapés. Exhibitions of high profile artists include local Art scene veteran Frog King (Kwok Mang Ho)’s 70th birthday retrospective at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, China's leading contemporary painter Fang Lijun's latest exhibition at Hanart TZ Gallery, and celebrated young artist Jacky Tsai solo exhibition at Contemporary by Angela Li. On Art Day at South Island, artist VHILS will open his brand new Wong Chuk Hang studio for visitors.
To encourage visitors to make the most of HK Art Week and visit as many galleries as possible, there is a city wide "Art Treasure Hunt", where visitors can collect "stamps" from participating galleries and win gifts such as complimentary tickets to the Chocolate Museum at The Peak and a beautiful colouring book by artist Eleanor McColl. During HK Art Week, Instagram posts taken at events and hashtagged with #hkartweek are be eligible to win prizes such as round-trip tickets to Los Angeles (courtesy of American Airlines), Beats Solo Wireless 3 headphones and gifts from The Mandarin Oriental, The Peninsula Hotel, Ovolo Southside and more.
http://www.hkartweek.org
Tickets for Gallery Walk for Charity are available through ticketflap:
https://www.ticketflap.com/
www.hk-aga.org/
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