Media pre-tour and opening reception of CityU exhibition ‘Fade to Black’: the art inspired by Vietnamese jungle caves

We would like to invite you to cover the following event:

 

Date:       2 June 2015 (Tuesday)

 

Time:       Media pre-tour: 4pm

 

               Opening reception: 6pm 

 

Venue:     3/F, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, CityU, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon

 

                

Fourteen spectacular artworks created by students from City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media will showcase their discoveries about an expedition to the jungle caves of Vietnam at the exhibition “Fade to Black” from 3 to 13 June.

 

The artworks are the fruits of painstaking effort by 14 students who trekked across the Tu Lan cave system in Vietnam from 22 February to 1 March. The themes of the artworks include:

 

·          the contrast between the silence of nature and noise in the city

·          reflections on the impact of the Vietnam War

·      the conflict between development and preservation, art/nature and technologies, and natural and artificial development

·          a love of nature

·          pollution

·          culture and language

·          isolation in a dense city

 

The media tour will be held in the afternoon of 2 June, followed by an opening reception.

 

Please refer to the appendix for the artwork descriptions or visit https://caves.scm.cityu.edu.hk for more information.

 

 

Media enquiries:

Karen Cheng, Communications and Public Relations Office, CityU (Tel: 3442 6805 or 9201 8895)