Sky, Sky, 2021 (oil on canvas)
From 26 August until 30 October, the Macao Museum of Art hosts the renowned Chinese multidisciplinary artist’s first solo and large-scale exhibition in Macao: “Zhao Zhao: A Long Day”. The exhibition showcases 82 pieces/sets of his most important work from his young career – spanning from 2006 until now – including paintings, installations, sculptures and studies on ancient culture. Born in Xinjiang in 1982, the Beijing-based Zhao Zhao graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Xinjiang Institute of Arts in 2003. Since then, he has quickly risen in the ranks among China’s new wave of contemporary artists, owing to his ambitious work that often challenges ideological structures, authoritarianism or conformity. A former assistant to Ai Weiwei, he has exhibited widely, including at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands, and the Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea in Milan.