"The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) has received a landmark donation from an anonymous Hong Kong-based collector of 131 works by 78 artists, dubbed the Art Continuum Hong Kong (ACHK). The gift represents the largest contribution of Hong Kong art in the gallery's history. Three decades in the making, the ACHK collection chronicles social, political and cultural change spanning the breadth of Hong Kong's modern and contemporary art history."
"The [ACHK] collection is diverse in media and spans artworks from the 1950s to the present. Taken as a whole, it strengthens our ability to present an expanded art history, one shaped by intersecting modernisms such as Quebec Abstraction and the New Ink Movement in Taiwan and Hong Kong and it deepens our engagement with Asian and Asian Diaspora practices within an international framework."
An anonymous Hong Kong-based collector donated 131 works by 78 artists to the Vancouver Art Gallery, marking the largest gift of Hong Kong art in the gallery’s history. The Art Continuum Hong Kong spans artworks from the 1950s to the present and includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, film, installation and lens-based media. The collection documents social, political and cultural change across Hong Kong’s modern and contemporary art history. The collection enhances the gallery’s capacity to present an expanded art history shaped by intersecting modernisms and deepens engagement with Asian and Asian Diaspora practices within an international framework. The gift also reflects enduring Vancouver–Hong Kong cultural ties.
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