Date: 16 Apr 2025 - 16 Apr 2025
In this lunch talk, the mixed-media artist Daphne Alexis HO and the art historian Harald KRAEMER will speak about the composition of landscapes in photography and the underlying aesthetics. Drawing on the classic works of Ansel Adams and Andreas Gursky, they will discuss the aesthetic concepts and compositional principles, using the artworks of Daphne Alexis HO.
This is an event associated with the exhibition 8 times 8. stories．series．systems in mythology & art. For exhibition details, please click here.
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Language: English
Artists
Daphne Alexis HO 何居怡 (PhD, MFA, RMIT; Melbourne, Australia) is a mixed-media artist whose monochromatic landscape series draws inspiration from Japanese Zen aesthetics. Capturing life’s impermanence, Ho’s artworks highlight the fragility of nature and transformation, reflecting on the delicate balance between transience and contemplative reflection.
Exhibition Curator
Harald KRAEMER 孔慧銳 (b. 1963, Trier, Germany). Art scholar in the MA Programme in Museum Studies at HKU with a focus on Museum Studies and Media in Museums, and Exhibition Curator at UMAG. He has written numerous essays and exhibition reviews on photography for EIKON International Magazine for Photography and Media Art and has also taught this subject at universities in Cologne, Konstanz, Bern and Zurich. He lives and works in Hong Kong and Basel.
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