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Kaikodo Journal X November 1998

Ring of Fire: The Art of Wucius Wong

Corresponding to the exhibition between November 7 and December 5, 1998. 28 paintings by the Hong Kong-based artist Wucius Wong (Wong Wuxie) (28 color plates). Preface by Howard Rogers. Introduction by Michael Sullivan. 77 pages.

Includes the essays:
Wucius Wong:
    “A Bi-Directional East-West Journey”
Arnold Chang:
    “Entering the Ring: Viewing Wucius Wong’s Art”

Wucius Wong is 
 a real rarity, a painter who is truly 
bi-culturally literate, an artist whose talent and 
training have sustained him on a creative 
journey through two distinct cultures in pursuit 
of a vision in which the aesthetic values of both 
are subsumed.  In a very eloquent and perceptive essay 
Wucius Wong identifies the 
life and artistic experiences which have proved 
most significant to this development. This 
account makes clear that Wong has taken art 
very seriously from his earliest years, that he 
understood instinctively the liberating power of 
art, its limitless potential for transforming the 
lives of creator and audience alike. It was this 
understanding that led him to found several 
groups and associations for writers and artists, to 
organize the first international salon of 
modernist paintings in Hong Kong, and certainly provided the motive force for the major 
reorientations that have punctuated his life and 
professional career. Arnold Chang’s essay shines more light on Wucius and his compelling work.


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