The Craft of Creativity

Lang Lang and Chen Fenwan, two veterans in the arts world, find a new understanding of creativity and precision in Hublot’s latest dragon watch project

By Zabrina Lo

You may not think the worlds of music, visual art and watchmaking have a direct correlation. But Guangzhou paper-cutting artist Chen Fenwan begs to differ. “Often, the way artists think and create is to form a bridge between things that have no connections at all,” she says. In January this year, when Swiss luxury watchmaker Hublot invited her to design an artwork for its Spirit of Big Bang Titanium Dragon, a limited-edition timepiece celebrating the Year of the Dragon, Chen—who is known for Infinite, her ongoing paper art installation in the shape of a giant dragon, started in 2018—enthusiastically took on the challenge. “My immediate thought was that both a watch and a dragon are basically a line,” she says. The timepiece is modelled after a vibrantly coloured eastern dragon:…

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