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K11 Art Foundation
The K11 Art Foundation (KAF) is a non-profit art foundation based in Central, Hong Kong, named for an eponymous shopping centre and established by the shopping centre's operator. It supports the development of Chinese contemporary art from Greater China by providing creative incubation platforms. K11 Art Village The K11 Art Village hosts an Artist-in-Residence Programme, where certain resources are made available to invited artists. It also hosts activities and exhibitions, screenings, and talks for the artists-in-residence. Exhibitions Master of impressionism – Claude Monet KAF organised, with the Musée Marmottan Monet, the first ever exhibition of Claude Monet in mainland China. The show included 40 original Monet paintings on loan from the Musée Marmottan Monet, including the Water Lily and Wisteria, and 12 original paintings by Impressionist artists Berthe Morisot and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Half of the Monet paintings owned by Musée Marmottan Monet, were in the ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Cheng
Adrian Cheng Chi-kong (, born 1979) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and business executive. He is the CEO and executive vice-chairman of the Hong Kong-listed New World Development, and executive director of jewelry company Chow Tai Fook. He is also the founder of K11, which has a portfolio of commercial, cultural and residential projects. He is the son of property developer Henry Cheng and grandson of Cheng Yu-tung. Early life and education Cheng was born to Katherine Ip and Henry Cheng in 1979. He has two younger siblings, Sonia Cheng and Brian Cheng. Cheng is also the grandson of property developer, Cheng Yu-tung. Cheng was educated in his teenage years in the United States, when he attended Taft School in Connecticut. Following his time at Taft, Cheng enrolled at Harvard University. Cheng graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) honours degree. Cheng later went to Japan to study Japanese culture for a year. He received an honorary Doctorate from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Hao (artist)
Wu Hao (; born 1932) is a contemporary Taiwanese visual artist who is famous for his oil paintings, graphics, sculpture and woodblock prints. Wu is recognized for combining both Western painting materials and methods with traditional and local Chinese and Taiwanese methods, motifs and themes. It has been argued that Wu Hao's artistic career corresponds in a parallel manner to the development of Taiwan's political, social and cultural history. The artist has been instrumental in many prominent Taiwanese art movements, such as the Ton Fan art movement and the Nativist art movement. Much of contemporary Taiwanese art, including that of Wu Hao's, can be regarded as a hybrid of traditional and local Taiwanese motifs mixed with contemporary Western art. Wu is considered to be one of Taiwan's most influential and respected contemporary artists. Characteristically, the artist's work can be described as bright folk-art, which is vibrant, colourful and cheerful. Early life Wu Hao was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinematheque
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films. History From the first cinema screenings until 1930, several attempts to establish film archives were initiated in Europe, the USA and Russia. As early as 1898, the photographer and cameraman Bolesław Matuszewski evoked the idea of a film archive. "It is a matter of giving this perhaps privileged source of history the same authority, the same official existence, the same access as to other archives already known". The "Archives of the Planet” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931. Military film archives were also created in France, Germany and Great Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres (November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres's openly gay sexual orientation was influential in his work as an artist. González-Torres was known for his minimal installations and sculptures in which he used materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies. In 1987, he joined Group Material, a New York-based group of artists whose intention was to work collaboratively, adhering to principles of cultural activism and community education. González-Torres' work ''"Untitled" (L.A.)'' (1991), a 50 lb. installation of green hard candies, sold for $7.7 million at Christie's in 2015. Early life and career González-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba. In 1971, he and his sister Gloria were sent to Madrid where they stayed in an orphanage until settling in Puerto Rico with relatives the same year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
