Visitors to the Richmond Art Gallery have a unique opportunity until Aug. 24 to view several artists who have done exceptional works in mixed media.
The exhibition encompasses animation films, video works, paintings and prints and explores a range of real and imaginary worlds.
Some of the artwork is surrealistic black and white animated objects and creatures that appear over a fixed horizon. Others are colourful patterns grouped together, some depicting mythical creatures.
Shanghai-based artist Qiu Anxiong and Vancouver-based artist Howie Tsui mingle Chinese classical literature and martial arts fiction in their works. They have collaborated to produce an art display titled The Roaming Peace Blossom Spring.
One of the extraordinary paintings — by Howie Tsui — is the multilevel Jumbo.
As a sidebar, the Jumbo was an iconic floating Hong Kong restaurant. The original three-storey Jumbo restaurant was sold in 2022 but, on its way to Cambodia over the South China Sea, its main boat sank in bad weather.
The restaurant rests on the seabed 1,000 metres below the surface and recovery is not possible. Now its imagined phantasmagoric likeness lives on in this painting.
Further diversity is found in the works of Alvin Jang and Anna Wong with their display Enigmas & Dreams: Works on Paper.
All in all, this exhibition is well worth a visit.
For more information about current and future exhibitions, go to the art gallery’s webpage.
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