The Works：Gaylord Chan’s retrospective@ASHK, Tetsumi Kudo@Hauser & Wirth & in the studio: Education

Gaylord Chan, affectionately known as雞粒 by friends and acquaintances in the art world, died in June 2020. He was 95 years old. While working in his first career as a telecommunications engineer, Gaylord took up art in 1968, enrolling in an art and design course in the wake of his first wife being struck down with cancer. In 1973, he held his first solo exhibition. A year later, he co-founded the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society. The Asia Society Hong Kong Centre is currently showing the first major retrospective exhibition of Chan’s work.

On show at the Hauser & Wirth gallery are works by the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo, who died in 1990. A multidisciplinary artist whose work included painting, performance, installation and sculpture. In 1965, Kudo began making cages, the objects that later came to define his art. He spent the next 15 years working with this form.
Through these cages, he examined humanity's relationship with nature and technology and how they interact in what he called the "New Ecology."
He used found materials to illustrate the idea that humans, like pets, are being “fed”, observed, or controlled by a larger organised system.

The Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at The Education University of Hong Kong offers a range of courses of different art forms. Later on the show, members of the university’s orchestra are here to tell us more themselves and an annual concert that they recently finished.