Work by Egon Schiele
The first grand western art exhibition at the Macao Museum of Art (MAM) in 2016, titled “One Century of Austrian Art 1860-1960”, will be inaugurated on Friday, 29 January, at 6:30pm, at the Gallery of Special Exhibitions of MAM, on the 2nd floor; while the Curator’s talk will be hosted on Saturday, 30 January, at 3pm. Interested parties are welcome to enrol in the talk. The exhibition complies 89 masterpieces by iconic Austrian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as prominent figures like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, depicting a hundred year of the most stunning progress of Austrian painting. Since April 2015 the exhibition has been shown at the Beijing World Art Museum, the Dalian Modern Art Museum and the Hubei Provincial Museum, and will close at MAM. Free collateral event of this exhibition “Curator’s talk: Austrian Art (1860-1960) from the perspective of artistic economy” by the curator Josef Schütz, in German (with Mandarin interpretation) will be held on Saturday, 30 January, at 3:00 pm at the Gallery of Special Exhibitions of the MAM, on the 2nd floor. For online registration, please visit the Cultural Affairs Bureau webpage www.icm.gov.mo/eform/event or Macao Museum of Art webpage www.MAM.gov.mo, or call 8791 9814 during office hours for registration and details. The exhibition is co-organised by MAM, under the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the Beijing World Art Museum and the Chinese-Austrian Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition is open until 3 April 2016. The Macao Museum of Art is located at Avenida Xian Xing Hai, and is open from 10am to 7pm (no admittance after 6:30pm; closed on Mondays). The admission fee is MOP5.00, and admission is free on Sundays and Macao public holidays.
