Moon Chun Memorial College Music & Arts Appreciation Series:
Looking out of the credible: Tapestries of Zsuzsa Péreli
To cultivate students in the appreciation of Music and Arts, Moon Chun Memorial College students and staff attended the opening ceremony of Looking out of the credible: Tapestries of Zsuzsa Péreli on 10 June 2019. As a part of Art Macao 2019, the Consulate General of Hungary in Hong Kong and Macau collaborated with the Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau in presenting this exhibition featuring gobelin pieces of Hungarian artist Zsuzsa Péreli.
Tapestry weaving has a European history of more than two thousand years, and finishing a woven tapestry requires advanced specialist knowledge and special artistic sensibilities. Among the exhibited tapestries, angels fulfil a special role in Péreli’s oeuvre. Their number grows slowly, because something must happen for a new one to be born, and there are only four of them up till today. The angels started out from earth, hovering above the city, and the most recent one guards the world from a distant place. The Poor Angel (1997), the Aequilibrium (2000-2001) and the angle of Illuminatio (2012-2013) completes the ‘Ascension of the Angel’.
Some thoughts from MCM College students who attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition:
“Zsuzsa Péreli is a gifted artist. Her artworks are full of creativity and imagination. Besides, every piece of tapestries is sending out different pieces of information to the audience, something that the creator wants to share. One of my favorite tapestries is Landscape, end of the 20th century. In this exhibit, Zsuzsa Péreli applied life materials into her art, inspiring us to treasure our valuable natural resources. I really enjoy this tapestries exhibition. It is a good opportunity to experience Hungarian culture and acknowledge a talented artist.” – Katrina Xian
“Impressed by Zsuzsa Péreli’s Gobelin, the woven tapestry of the European tradition, I am surprised at not only the timeless charm of traditional art but also the progressive creation grounded in the present. As critics remarked, Péreli’s masterpieces could be deemed as the conjunction of various aspects: the adaptation of historical tradition, the employment of current ideas and materials, and most importantly, the creativity of fine arts with future possibilities.” – Charlie Zhang |