{"id":251750,"date":"2025-10-31T06:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251750\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:35:09","slug":"rarely-seen-matthew-wong-paintings-to-appear-in-venice-during-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251750\/","title":{"rendered":"Rarely Seen Matthew Wong Paintings to Appear in Venice During Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRare and never-before-exhibited works by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/matthew-wong\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthew-wong\" data-tag=\"matthew-wong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Wong<\/a> will head to Venice in time for next year\u2019s Biennale, marking one of the most high-profile shows planned for La Serenissima during the spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe show, titled \u201cMatthew Wong: Interiors,\u201d is being curated by John Cheim, whose defunct New York gallery was among the few to show the artist\u2019s work during his brief life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWong, who died by suicide at 35 in 2019, is today remembered for the vivacity of the colors he used to depict snowy landscapes and still lifes. Based in Canada for much of his career, Wong was on the cusp of greater recognition at the time of his passing and has since become even more well-known. His art currently hangs in the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s galleries, and he was the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/reviews\/matthew-wong-retrospective-mfa-boston-review-1234675603\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a traveling survey<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-08-at-11.12.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Two people in a blue room look at a painting by Matthew Wong.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 35-work Venice show will focus on \u201cinteriors, both physical and psychological,\u201d according to a release, and is being put on by his foundation, which is run by his mother Monita. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe exploration of the interior has long been a central concern in modern and post-war art\u2014from the vibrantly colored and patterned domestic scenes of Matisse and Vuillard to the emotionally charged spaces of Munch, Van Gogh, and Duchamp,\u201d Cheim said in a statement. \u201cMatthew synthesized these traditions into a unique visual language, employing dense color and expressive brushwork to transform rooms into vivid, non-naturalistic settings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMonita Wong said in a statement that the show was \u201cdeeply meaningful\u201d to her. She also pointed out that Wong himself had a history with Venice, having served as a docent at Hong Kong\u2019s pavilion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare and never-before-exhibited works by Matthew Wong will head to Venice in time for next year\u2019s Biennale, marking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,117537],"class_list":{"0":"post-251750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-matthew-wong"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}