The Works：Botticelli @ HK Museum of Art, Korean artist Kim Duck Yong & in the studio: REED4BLE

In this week's episode, we are heading back in time to that massive flowering of science, art, and knowledge known as the Renaissance, and more particularly to the work of painter Sandro Botticelli. We do not often get to see major Renaissance works in Hong Kong, but up to 24th February next year there is a rare opportunity to see more than 40 outstanding examples of works by Botticelli and other artists of the time from Italy’s Uffizi Galleries at the HK Museum of Art.

In his first solo exhibition, “Ocean Rhapsody” in Hong Kong in Soluna Fine Art, Korean artist Kim Duck Yong combines his Korean heritage with a contemporary approach to using traditional materials. The exhibition features 16 of his zen-like paintings portraying the ocean, sometimes as seen through windows, and bookshelves. The materials used in the paintings include not only Korean paper and ancient wood, but also mother of pearl.

Formed in 2018, the quartet “REED4BLE” is made up of three reed instruments and a ukulele. But how did the oboe, clarinet, bassoon and the Hawaiian ukulele come together? What sort of sound would we expect this combination to make? And where do they find their repertoire? They came to our studio this week to tell us and let us hear.