For a savvy traveler looking for their idea of the perfect boutique hotel, Hong Kong is a place worthy of the loftiest daydreams. These dreams are easy to achieve, as the city is an amazing place for the perfect vacation, getaway, or business trip. The hotels match the city for charm, elegance, and exquisite details, matching the traditional with the contemporary. It truly is a place where the best of all worlds meet. This vibrant city has an amazing cultural heritage, and a history worth investigating.

Travelers on a search for local art would have to consider the work of Van Lau. His ubiquitous sculptures make him a huge celebrity here, and he’s been a world-class contender in the international arena for many years. In 1959 he finished his art school credentials at the National Taiwan Normal University, and since then he has been working all over the globe, but his intense commitment to his home in Hong Kong remained, and remains, a very strong concern of the artist’s. He has won an impressive number of very prestigious awards, and is active in the arts scene, advocating for a local art that is explicitly Chinese.

In his formative years, his work was more experimental, using some of the ideas inherent to revolutionary art in an era of revolution. Using a mixture of traditional Chinese elements with the perceived-to-be- contemporary elements of Western art, he developed an art practice that was deeply concerned with questioning the notion of cultural identity. For Van Lau , his later, and present, works, are much more “classical” in form, and his recent sculptures are interesting in their attention to shape and design. His work is also interestingly complemented by his public artist identity, where he is outspoken about the need to maintain a cultural tradition that is Chinese, with all the contradictions of living in modernity.

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