I haven’t been to a museum or art gallery for some time. A long time ago, I used to spend a lot of time visiting them, especially during weekdays and those that did not charge you anything for entrance. Free entrance and weekday visits often mean you can spend a lot of undisturbed time with the art pieces you like.
Being
a mediocre art appreciator, I am always attached to a limited number of European
artists whose works are often “commercialized.” Most of them are not
contemporary but thrived in the modern art age. For those modern and
contemporary local, Chinese or Oriental artists, I owe them an apology
for being apathetic to their hard work. Very often, when there are traces of
resemblance to some “great” artists in their works, I judge them as an
imitation, or worse, a copy. I must admit I cannot help seeking out those
traces whenever I notice the artists’ names are likely to be oriental. This is indeed
my problem.
A friend asked me to go visit M+ three weeks ago. I wasn’t too keen, as I thought the entrance fee was expensive and the collection should be ordinary. He told me it was free until the mid-month, so we went on a weekday morning. Well, the building stunned me. It must be extremely costly to build and maintain. We planned to leave before 1:00 pm for lunch, but in the end we left at 4:30 pm with aching legs.
Most
of the artworks were local and Chinese, or the artists had connections with the
city and the country. My prejudices about these artworks remained unchanged. However,
I was quite impressed by a large collection of contemporary artworks by artists
in China in the last exhibition hall. There are a lot of references to western modern
art in most pieces, but the way they were installed and displayed in the huge
halls made them look great and iconic from a distance.
A few
days later, I went back to the same museum again on my own. This decision surprised me. This time I spent
the whole morning, more than three hours, looking at every single piece of
artwork, taking pictures of those that intrigued me, and reading all the words in
the curator’s notes in the hall for the Chinese artists. There were only a few
visitors, mostly noisy, but they did not stay long after taking some selfies
with the pieces they liked. It was an unexpected experience for me. I felt as
if the artworks were singing a well-rehearsed song with different parts carefully
put together. Instead of searching for more artistic mannerisms or resemblances
to other masters, I tried to read their stories underneath the canvases and their
feelings mixed with the charcoal and paint. When I left, I said to myself “The
collection is a great piece of art!”
I
was not connected to the art pieces with my eyes. What an experience!
I
leave here parts of the memories and reflections of the artworks I gathered on
the second day to remind me of the possibility of seeing things differently.
另類的藝術，有其時代的意義。非常寫實的「留給未來」，1973年正在文革尾聲，鄉間的表姐，也曾經寄來穿這種服裝的照片，相信今天她們都有不堪回首的感嘆。
回覆刪除歲月就是這樣悄悄地來去，就當今天是最好的一天；留下一些東西給未來，回頭再看，或許可以提醒自己曾經努力活過！
刪除St Thomas嗰張好有感覺。
回覆刪除藝術品有趣的地方就是能獨動人心，但卻每人不同。
刪除我不太懂藝術，基於何妨一看的心態，有時也會去看一些展覽，知道M+免費進場到11月中結束，本想去看看，結果還是沒有成行。
回覆刪除我都是因為免費才到該處走了一趟，還是一個回港探親的朋友提我才知道，結果在那裡流連了大半天！那博物館很大，地下那層不是正式展覽區，不用購票也可進入。那層的設計已是十分特別和 「大」，一點也不似香港本土的所謂大，喜歡影相的話，齋是該一層連埋館外四周已可以有排影。投資了計不了那麼多億元才建成的設施，吾去睇睇、坐坐，真喺對吾住自己納過的稅！
刪除新年快樂！🫂
回覆刪除眨眼已是十號了，繼續快樂享受辛苦得來的每一天吧！
刪除祝新年快樂！四季平安 !
回覆刪除對不起，遲回覆了！你也繼續快樂享受每一天！
刪除不要緊 ! 新年新氣象，大家都要好好度過每一天。
刪除兔年快樂。🐇
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