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Art in every step

To celebrate the HKSAR’s 20th anniversary, the Hong Kong Museum of Art is dressing up staircases around Hong Kong using some of its most prized collections.

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One of the stairs at Hong Kong Park are decorated with the painting, ‘Dish with Decoration of Flowers and Butterfly in Fencai Enamels’, from the Qing period.

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Hong Kong is a city to walk in. It is naturally hilly and, combined with competition for space everywhere, translates into a constant need to go up and down. Staircases are inevitably an essential part of the cityscape.

That makes the many flights of steps in various districts convenient canvases for flower paintings. Hence the outdoor art project, “City Dress Up: Blossoming Stairs”, launched this spring with a threefold purpose: to celebrate the HKSAR’s 20th anniversary and the 55th anniversary of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and to bring art to the community.

Eve Tam, the Museum Director, said: “The floral theme was chosen because flowers are pleasing and beautiful to look at. Since we are promoting art to the public, we selected a theme that can be easily understood rather than something too abstract or conceptual.

“People are essentially walking into art without being conscious of it, unlike in a museum. It is a way to get the public to see art from a different perspective.”

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The painting ‘Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons in the Style of a Araki Juppo’ is now on display at Lai Chi Kok Park.
The painting ‘Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons in the Style of a Araki Juppo’ is now on display at Lai Chi Kok Park.
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