Fine dining: A visual conversation on food

Hong Kong – Fifty years after he put down his paintbrush to found an empire of Chinese fine dining restaurants, restaurateur Michael Chow is returning to art. To celebrate his first solo exhibition of large sculptural canvases in Hong Kong, NOWNESS commissioned a video, The Art of Dinner, translating Chow’s oral history into an art piece.

The video by Dallas-based artist Trey Wright visualises a conversation between Chow and London restaurateur Jackson Boxer, in which Chow talks about his legacy of making Chinese food respectable and his return to art. The video has a Futurist montage style, with collage cut-outs and stop-motion technique.

The video brings together Chow’s love for his Chinese heritage with his love for art. More and more, we are seeing food elevated to fine art, as food designers use it to entice all five senses. For more, read our New Foodscapes microtrend.

Michael Chow’s Recipe For A Painter show is currently running at the Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong until March 8 2014.