On May 4th, GDToday salon "An Encounter with Marco Polo" was held at the Guangzhou Opera House, in company with the restaging of the original opera Marco Polo. Macro Polo-themed oil paintings exhibited during the salon show a cherished friendship between painter Sandro Trotti and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA).
Trotti is a master of Italian oil painting and is famous for his Neo-expressionism works. He has created a series of works since 2015 with both Italian and Chinese themes. The paintings displayed in the salon are a series of paintings named The Reverie of Macro Polo, including 3 Italy-themed oil paintings named The Sky Over Rome, Flavours of Venice, and The Horse Racing, and two China-themed paintings named The Miao Woman/Lady and A Town on the Border.
International guests from diverse cultural backgrounds shared their thoughts after viewing the paintings. Harley Seyedin, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China, told GD Today, “It’s a beautiful painting and certainly the artist Sandro is very talented. I'm happy to see that he's mixed and mashed the Chinese culture together with Italian culture and rendered his point of view, which is quite fantastic.”
Alessandro Lamantia, Member of the Board of Directors of the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce, who has been working in China for more than 20 years, described Trotti’s works as a melt of cultures. He believes, through closer cultural ties between China and Italy, there will be more chances of cooperation between the two sides.
Reporter | Jersey
Video | Guan Jieming
Editor | Olivia, Nan
