An exhibition organised by The Lettering Artists Association of Macau (LAAOM), sponsored by the Macau Foundation (FM), entitled “Western Calligraphy: Season III – The Vibrant Script”, by local artist Henry Kwok Man See is on display at 10 Fantasia.

The event is being co-hosted by 10 Fantasia as its Permanent Exhibition 2020 and the St. Lazarus Church District Creative Industries Promotion Association, according to an unsigned article on 10 Fantasia’s Facebook page.

Kwok’s work conveys colour as an important medium for font art. Kwok worked as an art director at a New York advertising company. He is keen on the expression of font art in English, and believes that the strong characteristics of font art in the “psychedelic era” can be merged into various forms and become a completely different style, according to the article. 

Artists can skilfully use the combination of colours to form a unique artistic style, the text underlines, adding that the new style of this event exhibits a beautiful and elegant Vibrant Script which is a combination of Kwok’s ideas of “psychedelic era” and “colour”. Vibrant Script gives font art a new way of expression. The positive and negative forms of colour blocks and blanks bring eye-catching visual effects to the creation, according to the article.  

The Lettering Artists Association of Macau has been working on the development of Western calligraphy in Macau with a comprehensive promotion system. The association provides a year-long exhibition venue for local font artists and enthusiasts at Fantasia 10, which helps to provide a stable and long-term Western calligraphy display platform to attract more active audiences of different levels, as well as to bring profound academic education and significance of research for the local Western calligraphy creative industries, the Chinese-language article points out. 

The exhibition runs until July 18 in Room B05 at 10 Fantasia, which opens daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed on Mondays), at 10 Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro. Admission is free. 

Photos: Camy Tam