My Expert Passion: Chinese Ink Painting

Carmen Shek Cerne, specialist in Chinese contemporary art at Christie’s in Hong Kong, explains what attracts her to a medium that ‘looks at the present but equally looks to the past’.
‘Every object has a story,’ says Chinese Contemporary Ink specialist Carmen Shek Cerne, and Chinese painting is no exception.
‘That’s what attracted me to art in the first place: getting to discover the stories behind the works,’ the specialist continues. ‘How they are situated in historical context, when they were painted, who owned them, and even the artist’s state of mind when they were created.’
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