The “Above Zobeide, Exhibition from Macao, China” was inaugurated at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy on 18 April.
Curated by Chang Chan, the exhibition showcases large-scale art installations and digital prints created by young Macau-born artist Wong Weng Cheong, presenting a fictional world while conveying concerns about the development of human civilisation.
Inspired by the city of Zobeide in the novel “Invisible Cities”, the artist – who studied fine art in the United Kingdom – employed art installations to create a fictional world full of metaphors: a wilderness above the ruins of a city – inhabited solely by a group of herbivores with elongated legs.
The exhibition is held at Instituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello 3701 in Venice until 24 November. For more information about the exhibition visit the Macao Museum of Art’s website.
Source and Photos: Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC)
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