HK W2 Saturday

Another visit to Sha Tin yesterday, was meeting a old friend for lunch so while i waited around for her lunch break i dandered about and ended up at the park so here’s a few photos from that little adventure, that includes a waterfall, bit of traditional architecture and a really nice pattern.

Following lunch i visited the Hong Kong Heritage Museum for the International Poster Triennial of 2010 but before that i went to the Chao Shao-An ”Unrestrained Passion” which includes Ng Yuet Lau who’s a student of . The paintings were very elegant and graceful with the delicate brush strokes that are very expressive. There was also a painting demonstration video that’s very hypnotic, or maybe i just like watching how someone paints? You really learn alot about some’s style and technique. Here are a couple pieces of her work:

When i finally tore myself away from the demo video and went to the Poster Triennial which only left me a little over a hour to view the exhibition so here’s a few snaps of some of pieces i liked. The exhibition’s there until May so if you’re over here it’s a must see!! It’s so good that i might actually have to go again as i kind of rushed through it as it was near closing time.

Titled: Twelve animals, 2007, Designer: kentaro Nagai, Japan

Formed from different countries merged together to created the 12 chinese zodiacs.

Titled: ali mohammadi painting, 2008, Desginer: Homa Delvaray, Iran

I really liked the details of this piece with the patterns and how it merges two and three dimensional space.

Titled: Campaign for “No Dog Droppings”, Designer: Junya Kamada, Japan

The character on the left (including the stroke) means “big” and the image on the right means “person”. What you think it means?

Titled: Peace is a Blessing, Designer: Unknown 

This is probably the piece i liked the most from the poster collection, really liked the simplicty and the bright vibrant red, very Chinese traditional. Of course i like the piece’s white space imagery of evoking birds in the typography, not really anything new but i’m still a sucker for images like these.  

Titled:Masks of Peking Opera, 2008, Designer: zhang wexian  China

Simple strokes creating imagery from chinese opera masks, very minimalistic.

Titled: Solar terms punctuation, 2009, Designer: wang hsu chun, taiwan

Chinese characters created from as stated above punctuation marks.