Autumn Salon 16

Creative Growth

Autumn Salon 2022 opened in November at Casa Garden, the Orient Foundation’s headquarters in Macau, featuring 91 works by 51 local artists.

Since its inception 13 years ago, the Autumn Salon has had the goal of establishing a platform between Macau artists and the public, and this year’s event is no exception. 

Organised by the Art For All Society (AFA) and the Orient Foundation, Autumn Salon 2022 opened in November at Casa Garden, the Orient Foundation’s headquarters in Macau, featuring 91 works by 51 local artists.  The selected works include paintings, sculptures, photography, engrav-ing, multimedia and installations, among other formats. 

“According to the regulations, all the artworks selected were to have been created within the last two years, that is after 2020, so in other words, this year’s selections of artworks were all produced in the ‘post-pandemic’ era,” notes Alice Kok, president of AFA and curator of this year’s event. 

“The number of artists and works is similar to number of the last two years, but we have seen a significant increase compared to the ‘pre-COVID’ era, with this year being the highest number of artists ever exhibited over the years. This shows that the ‘post-COVID’ effect may have re-duced the physical space for exhibitions, but it has not killed the incentive for artists to create, rather stimulated it,” Alice adds. 

Every year, one artist is selected to participate in a special solo exhibition as part of the Autumn Salon, “with the aim of focusing on the artist’s thematic explorations, bringing the debate on contemporary art to a deeper level”. This year’s Autumn Salon features Xixia Wu, a young emerging artist who has just become a resident in Macau. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts in the United States, Wu is currently a PhD student in Fine Arts (Art History) at the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST).  

“In addition to the growth in artistic energy, the choice of art media has also witnessed an increasing tendency towards ‘digitalisation’, with online exhibition platforms becoming more and more prevalent over the past two years and NFT sales platforms becoming more and more popular. There is a growing maturity in the artists’ exploration of digital creation, and this Autumn Salon is full of digital artworks this year as well,” com-ments the curator. 

The exhibition will be open to the public until December 11, and the gallery is open from 10am to 7pm, closed on Mondays. Admission is free.

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