Moon Chun Memorial College Music & Arts Appreciation Series:
Artist Dialogue: “Wynn – Garden of Earthly Delights”
To cultivate students in the appreciation of music and arts, Moon Chun Memorial College student and staff attended Artist Dialogue: “Wynn – Garden of Earthly Delights” on 6 June 2019, which is a part of Art Macao 2019. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Chip Tom, curator of Wynn – Garden of Earthly Delights, assembles a selection of modern and contemporary art pieces from renowned artists around the world and presents a rich diversities of art through various forms such as paintings, installations and digital art pieces.
During the dialogue, the artists, including Jennifer Steinkamp, Edoardo Tresoldi and Yosuke Hayano, shared with audience their inspiration on their creation and views on modern arts. In ‘Silence Dogood’, Jennifer Steinkamp manipulated computer code to transform architectural spaces to a world both real and virtual. ‘Sacral’ by Edoardo Tresoldi plays with the transparency of wire mesh and pays tribute to architectures that visually appear in the disappearing physical limitation. Last but not least, Yosuke Hayano explained that the ‘Dragon’s footprint’ leaves imagination and creativity to the audience as it is shocking to see oversized footprints of mythical creature in the urban land.
As the first launch of Art Macao 2019, the exhibition has left a profound message to MCM College student Charlie Zhang, as he said,
“I was glad to participate in the Artist Dialogue: Garden of Earthly Delights organised by Wynn. Thanks to the inspiring discourses delivered by three artists from different countries and of various backgrounds, I not only enjoyed fabulous artworks but also got to know the current trends and changes taking place in the field of art. Personally, I was deeply impressed by ‘Dragon’s Footprint’ by MAD architect, an installation art piece masterly combined traditional Japanese culture and modernist thought and style. According to the artists, art creation could be multidisciplinary, mixing architecture, IT and so on together. To my understanding, it is those new directions that vitalize art in the age of post-modernism. After all, art creation is a progress, in which development takes place with courageous reform and revolution.” |