The Works：Cézanne & Renoir@HKMOA, Michele Fletcher@White Cube & in the studio: pianist Chiyan Wong

Last year was celebrated as the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Impressionist movement. To mark the occasion, a selection of masterpieces from the Musee de l’Orangerie and the Musee d’Orsay tracing the life and work of Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir have been brought together for a touring exhibition. It’s currently on show in Hong Kong. Aftertime” at White Cube Gallery is London-based painter Michele Fletcher’s first Hong Kong exhibition. In her works, vivid and layered ribbon-like swirls of paint instantly bring to mind lush vegetation. Fletcher completes each painting in a single session, often requiring considerable physical endurance, sometimes over as long as twelve hours, applying layers of paint on top of previous still wet layers. Texture and depth are created by the scraping, dragging and dripping of the paint across the surface. Pianist Chiyan Wong’s musical repertoire ranges from the early Baroque to the 21st century. For his debut album, “Liszt Transfigured”, he edited and performed Franz Liszt's extremely challenging transcriptions of well-known opera melodies. His second album focused on Ferruccio Busoni’s edited and abridged 1914 version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. His latest album, and his first digital album “Swing!”, in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra, features a selection of jazz-influenced music by Alexander Tsfasman and Maurice Ravel. Chiyan’s with us right now to tell us more.