The Works："Late Night Series Art X — Tender is the Night", Henry Shum & in the studio: Bobby Cheng

"Do not go gently into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas’s poem is just one of many works in which artists have drawn inspiration from the night or used it as a metaphor. Like every major city, Hong Kong has its fair share of insomniacs and night owls.
They, in particular, may be happy to know that from Friday to Sunday, the Hong Kong Arts Centre is presenting a series of nocturnally-oriented events in “Late Night Series Art X — Tender is the Night”.

The vortex is the spiral or even whirlpool-like structure that often appears in nature in the movement of liquids and gases. As, for instance, when you stir milk into your tea or coffee. In the 18th century, artists and thinkers like William Blake and Rene Descartes – inspired by discoveries of spiral shapes of galaxies – also saw vortices as having philosophical, and even religious significance. "Vortices" are the subject, and the title, of the first solo exhibition of Hong Kong-based painter Henry Shum at Empty Gallery. It is on until the 21st November, and includes a mural and a group of interconnected oil paintings.

Since graduating from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, oboist Bobby Cheng has been on a musical journey that’s taken him to numerous local and international music competitions, and performances with world renowned orchestras and at music festivals. He’s currently Principal Oboist in the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse in France. He is currently in Hong Kong for a recital at the Hong Kong City Hall.