"Joy Of Living", Prof. Li Chi Mao's Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition will open to public

Post Date:2011/9/23

Date: On September 25~ November 27, 2011
Venue: Galeri 2B, the National Visual Arts Gallery
(formerly known as National Art Gallery Malaysia).

Prof. Li Chi Mao is born in Woyang County, Anhuei Province, China, in 1925, is known not only for his Chinese brush paintings but also his powerful calligraphy. He is also a great scholar and educationist besides being an ambassador of art, and is considered a national treasure in his home base in Taiwan. Prof. Li Chi Mao also has a museum under his name in the Hsing Wu College in Taiwan which was established in 2000. He is also the head of the Carrie Chang Fine Arts Centre in the Tamkang University He has been awarded by the then President of Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek (1973), Taiwan’s Council of Cultural Affairs, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence and the National Literature and Arts Prize, Taiwan in 1982. The City of San Francisco honoured him by naming November 29th as ‘Li Chi Mao Day’ in the United States in 1987. Prof. Li Chi Mao is considered a honorary citizen of Malacca when the Yang Di-Pertua Negeri Melaka, Tun Datuk Seri Utama Mohd Khalil Yaakob, announced this on October 8, 2009, on occasion of the launching of The Li Chi Mao Art House in Malacca. Prof. Li Chi Mao has also been granted a huge piece of lakeside land in Shandong province in north-eastern China by the China Government as a purpose-built museum cum research centre. The museum set for completion in early 2012 is sculpturally shaped like a Chinese master junkboat, after that of the great China explorer Admiral Zheng-he.

Hope you can join us for the Opening of the Exhibition, Thank You!

R.S.V.P. and for more information about the artist, please contact:
Sim Polenn (016-2733628)