Opening ceremony of Spanish art exhibition “Pasqualotto Desire’s Bazaar”
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Event: Opening ceremony of Spanish art exhibition “Pasqualotto Desire’s Bazaar”
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Venue: CityU Gallery, 6/F,
Officiating guests:
n Mr Mario Pasqualotto, the artist
n Mr Juan Luis Flores Arroyuelo, Consul General of
n Professor Richard Ho Yan-ki, Acting President of CityU
n Professor Martin Painter, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, CityU; and
n Mr James Ng Kam-ming, Chairman of CityU Gallery Management Committee and Executive Director of CityU Extension
To the casual observer, plastic bags and Marilyn Monroe may seem to share very little in common. Yet, in the latest exhibition at CityU Gallery, these unlikely subject matters are intrinsically linked.
Mr Mario Pasqualotto, a Barcelona-based artist, accumulated plastic bags of every colour from almost every country for more than a year. He then transformed them into the pictorial elements of his most recent production: a series of boxes of light, presented, for the first time in
The exhibition, “Pasqualotto Desire’s Bazaar—Plastic Bags Second Round”, will open on 29 January. It continues until 5 March at the CityU Gallery, 6/F,
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