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The Art Institute of Chicago has joined forces with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to co-present an exhibition of the legendary Hong Kong artist Lui Shou-kwan (1919 \u2013 1975). The exhibition Ink Play: Paintings by Lui Shou-kwan<\/em>, at the Art Institute of Chicago, opened on 14 April 2023, will run until 16 July 2023. CUHK Art Museum Director Professor Josh Yiu is the co-curator of the exhibition, and some of Lui\u2019s artworks have been selected from the Art Museum of CUHK for the exhibition.<\/p>\r\n

As the first retrospective of the pioneering Chinese ink artist in a major American museum, which has a renowned collection of modern art that covers all major European and American movements of the 20th century, Ink Play: Paintings by Lui Shou-kwan <\/em>provides an alternative narrative concerning the development of modern art that is couched in Chinese aesthetics and philosophy.
\r\nFeaturing 37 works dated from 1957 \u2013 1974, a prolific period for the artist that led to multiple solo exhibitions in Britain and group exhibitions in other countries, the exhibition presents Lui Shou-kwan\u2019s imaginative depictions of Hong Kong, reinterpretations of classical masterpieces and meditative Zen <\/em>paintings. Seen together with masterpieces by C\u00e9zanne<\/em>, Van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso, Magritte, Pollock, de Kooning, Clyfford Still, and other influential artists whose works are housed by this 143-year-old museum, the exhibition prompts meaningful dialogue and visual comparisons between Chinese and Western modernism. \u201cThis presentation in the United States will bring his still-relevant work to a new generation,\u201d noted Dr Tao Wang, Pritzker Chair of the Arts of Asia at the Art Institute of Chicago, the co-curator of the exhibition.<\/p>\r\n

Lui\u2019s works are best known for using the pictorial language of dots, lines and planes in ink for expressive purposes. Commenting on the Zen <\/em>series of paintings, exhibition co-curator and CUHK Art Museum Director Prof Josh Yiu said, \u201cLui Shou-kwan\u2019s masterful brushwork brings out the nuanced tonal variations in ink, and the non-figurative compositions are particularly conducive to a meditative reading.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Having influenced generations of modern artists in Hong Kong and beyond, Lui Shou-kwan has become a focal point of art historical studies and exhibitions in recent years. A retrospective exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in 2018 revealed his impact on mainland Chinese artists. The current exhibition in Chicago demonstrates Hong Kong\u2019s full-fledged emergence as an international art hub, and it marks the commitment of CUHK, which celebrates the university\u2019s 60th anniversary this year, to promoting the arts through academic collaborations worldwide.<\/p>\r\n

Support for\u00a0this exhibition<\/em> is provided by Alisan Fine Arts, American Friends of the Shanghai Museum, the family of Lui Shou-kwan, Lawrence Chu, Whang Shang Ying, Jerry Yang, and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York.
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14 April to 16 July 2023<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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Galleries 101A, 108, and 109, The Art Institute of Chicago<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Please visit the\u00a0exhibition webpage<\/a>\u00a0for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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