Chinese Surrealism | Artist Highlight | Cherie Cheuk Ka-wai

In participation with French May Arts Festival 2021, Alisan Fine Arts is proud to present "Chinese Surrealism" at Alisan Aberdeen. This exhibition is a response to the French Surrealist exhibition "Mythologies: Surrealism and Beyond - Masterpieces from Centre Pompidou" which will take place at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in collaboration with the Pompidou Museum as part of French May Arts Festival this year.
Alisan’s exhibition will feature the works of six artists, with a focus on young Hong Kong women artists. They include ink painters Cherie Cheuk Ka-wai and Zhang Xiaoli; emerging artists Ant Ngai Wing-lam and Charlotte Mui, the latter who will be exhibiting her colourful mythological works on paper for the first time in a commercial gallery. The other two artists are well known Hong Kong sculptor Mok Yat-San and international sculptor Wu Shaoxiang. These artists have been selected specifically because they are inspired and interested in Surrealist ideas and imagery such as, dreamscapes and the exploration of the unconscious mind. Using a contemporary Chinese lens, they will portray surrealism with their individual technique and media. The Western surrealist artists they are taking inspiration from include Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, Giorgio Chirico and Joan Miro.
Cherie Cheuk Ka-wai (b.1989) specializes in Chinese gongbi (fine-brush) painting. Her subject matters mainly revolve around memory, time, nature, laws of universe, emotions and thoughts. Her artwork also interrogates the development of gongbi after it reached its peak in Song Dynasty, namely how to rejuvenate this traditional Chinese art form in the contemporary world. She obtained a bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts with first class honours at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012 and she finished her Master Degree in Fine Arts in CUHK in 2017. Alisan Fine Arts began exhibiting her works in 2015 and has included them in a number of exhibitions, such as, Uniquely Hong Kong (2020); the inaugural edition of Taipei Dangdai Contemporary Art Fair (2019) ; Women Ink | China Hong Kong (2019); HOPE, a charity exhibition to benefit the Adventist Hospital Foundation (2018); and many more.