墨聚香江 文脈相承: 香港南來中國畫家展 Confluence of Ink and Legacy: Southbound Masters in Hong Kong Exhibition

墨聚香江 文脈相承: 香港南來中國畫家展
Confluence of Ink and Legacy: Southbound Masters in Hong Kong Exhibition

日期 : 2026年7月4日至8月26日
地點 : 香港大學圖書館二樓展覽廳
開放時間 :
星期一至五 : 早上 8:30 – 晚上9:00
星期六 : 早上 9:00 – 下午 5:00 

Date: 4 July – 26 August 2026
Venue: 2/F Exhibition Area, Main Library, HKU Libraries
Opening Hours:
Mon to Fri: 8:30am – 9:00pm
Sat:  9:00am – 5:00pm 

展覽概覽：

香港，自近代以來便是中西文化交融的樞紐，更是中國傳統書畫藝術在時代交替中得以棲身、傳承與新生的重要場域。二十世紀四十年代，時局更迭，一批深具造詣的中國畫家南來香江，在此紮根創作和教學，他們攜帶著中國的繪畫傳統，在這片開放的土地上，走出了各具風格的藝術道路，使香港成為中國繪畫發展的重要傳承地之一。

「少雪齋」珍藏歷經歲月沉澱，蒐集了眾多中國畫家經典墨寶，是次展覽，精選李研山、丁衍庸、趙少昂、呂壽琨、黃永玉五位藝術大師的作品，其中大多數是創作於居港時期，並以「文化承傳在香江」為核心，展現他們以筆墨寄情，在香江之畔，走出了截然不同的藝術軌跡。

此次展覽，一紙墨畫，承載的是中國傳統文化的根脈；一方香江，見證的是藝術家們的堅守與新生。這五位南來畫家，藝術風格各異，卻共同在香港這片土地上，延續著中國畫的文脈，推動著傳統藝術的傳承與創新。他們的作品，不僅是個人藝術生涯的精華結晶，更是近代中國文化南遷、香江中西文化融合發展的真實寫照。

Exhibition Overview:

Hong Kong has always been a crossroad between Chinese and Western cultures. In times of upheaval, it also serves as a refuge harbour for Chinese painting and calligraphy traditions to find shelter, continuity, and renewal. During the political and social changes in the mainland in the 1940s, a number of distinguished Chinese painters migrated southwards to Hong Kong. In the Fragrant Harbour, they found home to continue creation and teaching. Based on their rich inheritance of Chinese painting, they developed distinct artistic paths on this open and cosmopolitan ground, forging Hong Kong into a notable site for the continuation and transformation of Chinese art painting.

The Chamber of Young Snow has collected, over time, many outstanding works by major Chinese painters. This exhibition brings together selected works mostly created in Hong Kong by five masters—Li Yanshan, Ding Yanyong, Zhao Shaoang, Lu Shoukun, and Huang Yongyu. With the theme of The Cultural Continuum in Hong Kong, the exhibition shows how each master, through the language of brush and ink, pursued a distinct artistic course along the shores of the Fragrant Harbour.

In this exhibition, each piece of work bears the living roots of Chinese traditional culture, while Hong Kong itself stands as witness to the artists’ perseverance, adaptation, and birth. Although these five southbound painters developed strikingly different artistic languages, they all carried forward the lineage of Chinese painting on Hong Kong soil while advancing both the transmission and reinvention of art tradition. Their works are not only the distilled achievements of individual artistic masters, but also a vivid record of the southward migration of modern Chinese culture into Hong Kong in recent era, and a proof of the role of the Fragrant Harbour as a place where Chinese and Western cultures fuse and develop together.

展覽亮點：

1. 五位南來畫家，二十二幅真跡作品，從傳統到現代抽象水墨畫，引領參觀者一同踏上香港中國水墨畫演變的旅程。

2. 演算之筆：視覺重塑香港水墨
「演算之筆」由 香港大學文學院Arts Tech Lab 團隊共同研發與創作，以學術與技術視角重構南來大師的水墨傳承。本流動影像透過團隊開發的專屬生成式 AI 工作流程，深度分析原畫的水墨紋理與獨特性筆觸。結合精密的提示詞工程，團隊精準提取並融合大師獨有風格，將傳統水墨轉化為具抽象美學的動態視覺對話。此計劃在媒體考古與現代運算之間架起橋樑，讓歷史筆觸於演算中流動，在數碼時代延續並彰顯水墨的人文精神。

3. 「水墨幻境」以傳統文人書案為核心，配以山水屏風、水墨藝術及文房四寶，重現中國傳統書畫創作的典雅場景。參觀者步入古雅書房，坐在書案前，化身文人雅士，在水墨光影間留影，感受古今交匯、傳統與現代共融的文化魅力。

4. 邀請專家及學者，舉辦專題講座與研討會，促進學術交流與公眾教育。

5. 展示圖書館中國水墨畫書冊館藏。

Exhibition Highlights:

1. Featuring five southbound Chinese painters and 22 original works—spanning from tradition to modern abstract ink—invite the audience on a journey through the transformation of Chinese ink painting in Hong Kong.

2. Algorithmic Brushstrokes: Animating Hong Kong's Ink Masters
Co-developed and created by the Arts Tech Lab team of HKU Faculty of Arts, "Algorithmic Brushstrokes" reconstructs the Southbound Masters' legacy through a rigorous academic and technical perspectives. This work utilizes the team's custom generative AI workflows to deeply analyze historical ink patterns and signature brushwork. Through advanced prompt engineering, the team extracts and synthesizes each master's distinct style, translating traditional ink wash into a dynamic digital dialogue. This exhibition bridges media archaeology and modern computing, allowing historical brushstrokes to flow through algorithms while preserving the humanism of Chinese ink in the digital age.

3. "Ink Wonderland" recreates the elegant ambiance of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, centred around a classical scholar's desk, complemented by a landscape screen, ink art, and the Four Treasures of the Study. Visitors may sit at the desk like a classical literatus, pose in front of the flowing ink, and immerse themselves in a space where tradition and modernity, as well as past and present beautifully intersect.

4. Academic talks including thematic lectures and seminars led by experts and scholars that foster academic exchange and public education.

5. Selected books of Chinese ink painting from the HKU Libraries’ collection are displayed in the exhibition area.

主辦：香港大學圖書館
合辦及贊助：少雪齋
人工智能動畫製作：Arts Tech Lab, Faculty of Arts, HKU

Organiser: The University of Hong Kong Libraries
Co-organiser and Sponsor: Chamber of Young Snow
AI Animation Creation by: Arts Tech Lab, Faculty of Arts, HKU