The Works：Chinese Documentary Festival 2018, Oscar Murillo & in the studio: pianist Stephen Hough

This year’s Chinese Documentary Festival, now in its 11th edition, lasts more than a month and showcases 12 Chinese and non-Chinese feature films and shorts. This year it also includes a special section on the issues of the so-called “comfort women” and on Palestine.
Oscar Murillo is a Colombian painter and installation artist. He works in a wide variety of media, using text, recycled materials, and other items he has collected, to create his works on canvas and paper, and to produce sculptures, installations, live events, collaborative projects and videos. Until the middle of November, the David Zwirner gallery is presenting, under the title ““the build up of content and information”, his first solo exhibition in Asia. It includes both paintings and works on paper.
The Economist named him one of 20 “living polymaths”. Pianist Stephen Hough is a leading concert pianist, composer, educator, writer of essays and fiction, and painter. He has recorded more than 50 albums, many of which have received Grammy nominations and eight Gramophone Magazine Awards. He is globally acclaimed for his interpretations of the piano repertoire. Two weeks ago, he was in Hong Kong for a one-night recital of pieces by Debussy, Schumann and Beethoven. He also came to The Works studio the day after his concert.