Arts | Macau’s Venice Biennale exhibition opens tomorrow

View of the Macau Pavilion

Macau’s exhibition at the 56th International Art Exhibition: Biennale di Venezia entitled “Path and Adventure – Works By Mio Pang Fei”, will be inaugurated tomorrow.
According to a press release issued by one of the co-organizers of the exhibition, together with the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau of Macau, a delegation from the  museum  arrived in Venice last week to prepare the event’s opening.
The exhibition features eighteen paintings and installations by Mio Pang Fei, one of Macau’s most prestigious artists, which showcase his experimental approach in the midst of China’s Cultural Revolution, as well as his achievements from his research and practice of ‘neo-orientalism’, spanning decades.
The centennial Venice Art Biennale, which began in 1895, is the largest of its kind and remains one of the most important contemporary art events.  It has attracted worldwide attention, aided by over 100 countries/regions represented by internationally-acclaimed or highly promising artists.
Macau was first invited to participate in the event in 2007, and has since organized five exhibitions that have aimed to showcase local contemporary art to a global audience, with a total of 14 artists.
The 2015 Biennale theme, “All the World’s Futures,” curated by the Nigerian-born art critic, editor and writer Okwui Enwezor, seeks to evaluate and explore today’s radical social changes.
The Venice Art Biennale includes exhibitions based on set themes, those at national pavilions and parallel exhibitions. The curator of this year’s themed exhibitions has invited 136 influential artists from 53 countries to participate, including Chinese iconic artists like Xu Bing, Qiu Zhijie, Ji Dachun and Cao Fei. At each of the national pavilions, 89 nations will display artworks, while 44 collateral exhibitions will be presented by regions and artistic institutions invited by the Biennale — Macau’s being one of them.
“Path and Adventure – Works By Mio Pang Fei” will be available for viewing from May 7 to November 22 (closed on Mondays), at the Macau Pavilion, located in the Castello district of Venice.