The Works：Tracey Emin in HK, "Hack Space" curated by Han Ulrich Obrist, ink master Wucius Wong, and

Hong Kong’s hectic past month may have had art lovers rushing around as madly as March hares, but in case you couldn’t keep up, a few of the exhibitions that opened during Art Basel week are still going on. We’re bringing you two of them. In the 1980s, Tracy Emin came to public attention as part of the art group called the Young British Artists. Her early autobiographical artworks often drew on her own private life, and frankly referenced love and sex. Last month during Art Basel, she was in Hong Kong to open a solo exhibition across two galleries, White Cube and Lehmann Maupin. In an increasingly digital world, technology and the internet continues to change our lives. But along with the rise of social media has come the rise of hacking and other threats to internet privacy and security. In the exhibition, “HACK SPACE”, eleven Chinese artists and one New Zealander are taking the concept even further, looking at how we might hack the world around us.
Hong Kong has a long tradition of Chinese ink painting. Artists from the mainland were already coming here and - sometimes - setting up art societies in the 1920s and 1930s. More came after the Communist revolution, and still more as the Cultural Revolution swept the nation. In the then colony artists like Ding Yanyong and Peng Ximing, revitalised the art of traditional ink painting. In the 1960s, taking it even further, others like Lu Shoukun, Zhou Luyun, Liu Guosong and Wucius Wong developed a movement called New Ink Painting. Wucius Wong, who is almost 80 now, studied under Lui Shou-kwan, one of the pioneers of modern Chinese ink. His paintings are rooted firmly in Chinese culture, but his approach mixes both East and West. A retrospective exhibition at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University until the 24th of this month features over 30 of his works painted between 1965 and 2015.
Hong Kong-born pianist Chiyan Wong gave his first concert in Lithuania when he was 12. He went on to study in England. Despite his youth, he’s already earned accolades from international piano competitions. Currently based in London, he’s in town this week for a concert … and he’s in our studio with us today.