Guided Exhibition Visit-Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s-1970s including lunch at Agate

Name: Guided Exhibition Visit-Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s-1970s including lunch at Agate
Start: 2025-10-04T11:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-10-04T13:30:00+08:00
Location: M+ Museum

Schedule

Sat Oct 04 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:30 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

M+ Museum | Hong Kong, HK

RGS-HK is pleased to offer a guided exhibition tour of “Canto Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s–1970s”.
The Special Exhibition showcases twentieth-century Cantonese art and visual culture in its full complexity as an important chapter in global modernism. United in a shared linguistic and cultural identity, the southern port cities of Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong were historically marginal in China. The birthplace of China’s modern revolution, the two cities also gave rise to a distinctive visual and artistic modernism, one shaped by cross-cultural interactions and tensions between conservative and progressive artworlds.
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Cantonese artists helped to construct its self-image in propaganda and Socialist Realist art even as national agendas increasingly subsumed regional and individual character. Bringing together over 200 works from institutional and private collections, many on public display for the first time, Canton Modern recovers a deeply rooted local story with contemporary global resonance.
Alan Yeung is Associate Curator, Ink Art, at M+, Hong Kong. Previously, he was Fellow at CAMLab, a new initiative at Harvard University that combines humanistic inquiry with creative digital media practice, and Associate Curator at Ink Studio, a Beijing-based gallery specialising in contemporary ink art. Alan is co-editor, with Valerie Doran and Eugene Wang, of The Liu Kuo-Sung Reader: Selected Texts on and by the Artist, 1950s–Present (2024).

Members of the RGS are most welcome to attend this event, which is HK$300, including a guided exhibition tour and dim sum lunch at Agate.
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