His father owns more than 1,000 ink-brush paintings by modern and 20th century Chinese artists such as Zhang Daqian, but for Alan Lo, collecting is a relatively new hobby.

罗扬杰的父亲收藏有上千幅现代及二十世纪中国艺术家创作的水墨画，其中不乏张大千等知名画家的作品，但对于罗扬杰来说，收藏只是一个相对较新的爱好。

The Hong Kong-born, Princeton-trained architect, who co-founded the Press Room Group chain of restaurants, owns some 50 works of sculpture, painting, photography and installation, many of which are displayed in the Hong Kong apartment he shares with his wife, Yenn Wong. His first piece, bought at the height of the Chinese contemporary art bubble in 2008, is a sculpture by 'Political Pop' artist Wang Guangyi. Depicting a female farmworker in communist garb, it now stands in his living room next to a soda-filled fridge.

现年33岁的罗扬杰出生在香港，是一名建筑师，毕业于普林斯顿大学(Princeton)，他与友人一起创办了连锁餐厅Press Room Group。罗扬杰拥有50多件艺术品，其中包括雕塑、绘画、摄影和装置作品，在他和妻子黄佩茵共同居住的香港公寓中，就摆放了他所收藏的很多艺术品。他的首件艺术品购于2008年中国当代艺术品价格泡沫化最严重的时候，是一件“政治波普”(Political Pop)艺术家王广义创作的雕塑。这件雕塑刻画的是一身党员打扮的一个女农民，现在这件作品置于罗扬杰家的客厅中，旁边是一台塞满了汽水的冰箱。

Mr. Lo, age 33, initially stuck with Chinese artists and auction purchases, but he soon began acquiring work by artists from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia at Hong Kong's art fair, an event that introduced him to 'buying primary market,' he says.

罗扬杰最初开始收藏的时候，曾一度痴迷于中国艺术家的作品和在拍卖会上竞拍艺术品，但是此后不久，他开始从香港艺术展上购买日本、韩国和东南亚艺术家的作品。他说，是香港艺术展帮他打开了“投资艺术品一级市场”的大门。

'It's Chinese without crying out loud Chinese, which is a breath of fresh air,' Mr. Lo says.

他说：“香港艺术展是中国艺术的展会，但中国痕迹又不那么深重，让人耳目一新。”

In 2009, he made his first trip to Art Basel in Switzerland, and bought his first Western work two years later. 'Sex and Love,' by Gilbert & George, is part of the duo's 'London Pictures' series, which Mr. Lo saw at a White Cube show in London. 'I do like a bit of humor sometimes,' he says.

2009年，他首次前往瑞士参加巴塞尔国际艺术博览会(Art Basel)，并在两年后出手购进了他的第一件西方艺术品。这幅作品是由双人艺术家组合“吉尔伯特与乔治”(Gilbert & George)创作的作品《性与爱》(Sex and Love)，该作品是这两位艺术家的“伦敦图像”(London Pictures)系列作品中的一幅，罗扬杰第一次见到它是在伦敦白立方画廊(White Cube)举办的一次画展上。他说：“有的时候，我确实喜欢来点儿幽默感。”

Today, geography isn't a factor in his collecting. 'The subject matter artists deal with is so global,' he says. 'I personally find it more interesting to look at a more international scope.' For instance, in December he bought a selection of drawings from the 1970s by Japanese artist Kazuko Miyamoto, a longtime collaborator of Sol LeWitt, at NADA, a satellite fair to Art Basel in Miami Beach. For the same reason, he recently bought a minimalist, horizontal-striped painting by Liu Wei, and has his eye on Zhao Zhao, a former assistant of Ai Weiwei.

如今，艺术品的地理因素并不是他在收藏时需要考虑的问题。他说：“现在，艺术家们的创作主题非常国际化。我个人觉得用国际化的视野进行收藏更加有趣。”例如，在去年12月，他在新艺术经销商联盟(NADA)艺博会上购进了日本艺术家宫本一子(Kazuko Miyamoto)于上世纪70年代创作的一些画作。宫本一子是索尔•勒维特(Sol LeWitt)的长期合作者。NADA艺博会是巴塞尔迈阿密海滩艺博会(Art Basel Miami Beach)的卫星展。出于同样的原因，他最近购得了一幅由刘炜创作的极简抽象风格的、绘有水平条纹的画作，并开始关注曾担任艾未未助手的艺术家赵赵。

While he enlists the help of art advisers─'sometimes you just don't have time to travel just to see one thing'─he admits he's been known to make the occasional impulse purchase. 'Afterward it's like, 'What did I do?''

罗扬杰会请一些艺术顾问帮自己做参谋，他说：“有的时候，你没有为专门看一件作品而跑一趟的时间。”他也承认他偶尔会冲动购买：“事后，我常常会自问，‘我都做了什么啊？’”

Mr. Lo's favorite artists include the Philippines' Ronald Ventura, whose 'darkness' and technical skill he admires. A wall-mounted acryclic box containing a painting by Mr. Ventura takes pride of place in Mr. Lo's dining room.

罗扬杰最欣赏的艺术家包括菲律宾的罗纳德•温杜拿(Ronald Ventura)，他作品中体现出的“阴郁”与技巧都令罗扬杰钦佩。在罗扬杰家餐厅 上的显著位置就挂着一幅温杜拿的画作，这幅作品被镶嵌在一个亚克力画框里。

He also favors Japanese painter Soju Tao, the first non-Chinese artist he collected, whose expressionist portrait of Karl Lagerfeld hangs in his living room. 'It's like having breakfast with Karl every morning,' Mr. Lo says.

罗扬杰还很欣赏日本画家田尾创树(Soju Tao)，他收藏的第一件非中国艺术家的作品就出自田尾创树之手。罗扬杰的客厅中挂着这位画家创作的卡尔•拉格菲尔德(Karl Lagerfeld)的印象派肖像画。罗扬杰说：“每天早晨，我就好像是与卡尔共进早餐一样。”

Despite his family's history with ink painting─as a teenager, he studied for two years under ink master Zhao Shao Ang─he has yet to purchase one. But he recently commissioned a large-scale triptych by Hong Kong artist Frog King, or Kwok Mang-ho, which incorporates ink on paper and canvas. In addition, works from his father's collection appear at Duddell's, a new restaurant and lounge he helped open in Hong Kong's Central district.

尽管罗扬杰的家庭与水墨画有着不解之缘──在他十几岁的时候，他曾在水墨画大师赵少昂门下学习过两年──不过他尚未购买过昔日老师的画作。但是最近，他已委托人称“蛙王”的香港艺术家郭孟浩为自己创作一幅大尺寸三联绘画，这幅画作将用水墨画就，介质是画纸和画布。此外，新近开张的位于香港中环的餐厅及酒廊Duddell’s将展出罗扬杰父亲收藏的部分画作，Duddell’s是在罗扬杰的协助下创办的。

The one medium Mr. Lo has yet to tap? Video, though that may change after seeing a work that intrigued him at the Venice Biennale's Japan pavilion two years ago. 'I used to say I would never buy video art,' he says, comparing it to buying a DVD that may or may not ever get watched.

哪一种艺术媒介是罗扬杰还未曾尝试的呢？答案是视频。不过两年前他被威尼斯双年展(Venice Biennale)日本馆中展出的一段视频作品触动之后，他的这一收藏空白有可能会被填补。他表示：“我以前曾说过，我永远也不会买视频艺术作品。”他曾将视频艺术作品比作买回家后不知道会不会看的DVD。

But he's learned to keep an open mind when it comes to collecting. 'It's something down the road I definitely will consider,' he says.

然而，他已经学会了抱着开放的心态进行收藏。他说：“视频是我未来一定会尝试的收藏品。”