Lecture: Behind and Beyond Abstraction—Lui Shou-Kwan and His Soulmates
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, May 20th, from 2PM - 3PM
Join Eugene Wang, professor of Asian art at Harvard University, as he discusses the work of artist Lui Shou-Kwan.
Lui Shou-Kwan (1919–1975) is commonly recognized as a leading artist of Hong Kong’s New Ink painting movement. Today, this style of painting is often aligned with the sort of spatter-and-daub Abstract Expressionism anchored by Jackson Pollock, but this alignment gives short shrift to the Hong Kong movement. With this lecture, Wang tells a fuller story of the movement and Shou-Kwan’s place in it, as well as those of his artistic soulmates, Irene Chou and Liu Kuo-sung.
Eugene
Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. He holds positions in History of Art and Architecture; Archaeology; Study of Religion; Theater, Dance & Media, and Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2004). His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema. His book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005), explored Buddhist worldmaking and received the Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Award from Japan. His current research focuses on the cognitive study of art and mind. Wang is the founding director of Harvard CAMLab, which explores expanded scenography through digital media.
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Image info:
A Sunday Afternoon (detail), around 1980s
Irene Chou. Private Collection, Hong Kong. Photo by Eugene Wang
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