Since the establishment of HKBU Academy of Visual Arts in 2005, some professors who teach design or contemporary-art subjects, such as Peter Benz, Choi Yan-chi and Leung Mee-ping, often warn off their art students in this way: “There won’t be any prominent local artists being fostered in Hong Kong anymore. To cope with the needs of the contemporary market, it is a must to create conceptual arts because drawing and painting can only be defined as traditional fine arts!” The BU authority officially depreciates the importance of drawing and painting. It produces an effect of nuisance as it disorders the value judgments within the Hong Kong art scene. It makes people from the civic misunderstand that being a painter can no longer survive with good prospects due to the change of epoch.
But, if you look at the example of Billy Childish and Charles Thomson’s promotion of “Stuckism” campaign in the UK, it is vigorous enough to overthrow the disordered theories of BU authority. It can be understood that, oil painting with Lu Jiuyuan’s “Heart Studies” as guiding code can also be an important part of contemporary arts. For the leaders who are in charge of the M+ curatorships, even though 80 per cent of the exhibitions organized by them aim at discussing the issue of “visual cultures”, Uli Sigg still purchases a large amount of oil paintings for the administration of art collections. This proves that the development of WKCD is not based on Prof. Roland Chin Tai-hong’s ideal at all.
How the Stuckism campaign of the UK inspires the curatorial direction of WKCD M+ Museum in Hong Kong
1. 英國「Stuckism」運動對本港西
九M+策展方針的啟示
Como a campanha "Stuckism" do Reino Unido inspira a
direção curatorial do Museu M+ no WKCD em Hong Kong
講者:李冠良(浸會大學當代中國研究
社會科學碩士)
主辦單位:香港人文學會
講座日期:2019年8月22日
21. Design as a kind of Fine Arts = Stuckism?
王大閎(台灣籍,1917年生於
北京),《台北故宮博物院競圖
計劃案外觀示意照片》,約
1961年,銀鹽照片及底片
馬唯中館長有種特殊闢好,乃是
收藏建築設計圖,兼且是上一代
手繪勾勒的那些,認為工程完結
後也能成為珍貴的繪畫藏品,用
以鑒賞該建築相關的時代文化背
景。
22. Design as a kind of Fine Arts = Stuckism?
黎錦超,《香港科技大學設計比賽方案立
面圖》,1987年,蠟筆墨水紙本
23. Design as a kind of Fine Arts = Stuckism?
建築師:李華武
(香港,1946年
生於瑞士),
《香港沙宣道42
號獨立屋(1977
至1979年)立體
正投影圖》,
1977年,木顏色
墨水紙本