A rare political cartoon exhibition about full democracy for Hong Kong is not only encouraging viewers to appreciate the images, but also take part in a series of workshops to talk more about the city's situation.
Running until the end of this month at PubArt Gallery in Central, "Universal Suffrage Now" features the works of 23 comic artists and how they see the state of democracy in the city. Cartoonist Wong Kei-kwan, better known as Zunzi, has created a mini-sculpture on the wall that shows a three-dimensional voting booth with two successive drapes. After the second is pulled back, there's a drawing of an old man sitting on the toilet, whose speech bubble says, "Not yet, OK!"
Some people may wonder if comics are a form of art, but why limit art to oil on canvas?
Another cartoonist named Malone shows four cartoons, called Four Ways to Election. One of them, entitled A Cheap Way to Election No 1 shows a man with a voting card that he is trying to desperately put into the voting box, but it is too high.
Curator Cathy Lee May-yee of PubArt Gallery says the exhibition is the first in 10 years for cartoonists from two generations to come together and express themselves about universal suffrage.
Every Saturday until the end of the month, members of the public are invited to meet the artists and gain a better understanding of their opinion of the subject and how they transformed their thoughts into a cartoon.
