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The Works：M+ Uli Sigg Collection exhibition, photographer Alexis Reynaud x Huang Jing, in the studio

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"Artists should not lose themselves in the tide of market economy nor go astray while answering the question of ‘whom to serve … The arts must serve the people and serve socialism.” So said President Xi Jinping towards the end of 2014, giving rise to fears of potential new restrictions on creativity. It was all the more worrying since, from the 1970s, as China opend up, many of its artists had leapt at the chance to make the country’s arts scene one of the world’s most vibrant and most internationally successful. Their creativity attracted the attention of businessman and diplomat Uli Sigg, who began methodically building up a collection of their works. The Sigg Collection, which he largely donated to M+ four years ago, consists of more than 1,463 works of contemporary Chinese art from 350 artists said to be worth HK$1.3 billion. The museum also purchased an additional 47 works valued at US$22.7 million. At Artistree until April 5th, local art lovers have a chance to see a selected preview of the complete – and very sigificant - collection.
The high density and grid like urban landscape of Hong Kong have long been a source of inspiration for both local and international artists. Swiss photographer Alexis Reynaud has responded by creating a photographic mapping called “Hong Kong Matrix”, to portray the idea of “getting lost in these meanderings”. At the other extreme, the black and white photographs of Chinese artist Huang Jing in “Colorless and Tasteless” mostly echo the tranquility and abstraction of Chinese paintings. Works by both artists are currently on show in a joint exhibition at La Galerie in Central.
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