{"id":1227,"date":"2026-05-06T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:09:00","slug":"the-story-behind-wallace-chans-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Wallace Chan\u2019s Monumental Venice Biennale Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/17027\/wallace-chan-vessels-other-worlds-long-museum-shanghai-venice-biennale?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/0\/470429.jpg\" alt=\"Vessels of Other Worlds by Wallace Chan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Visitors to the Chapel of Santa Maria della Piet\u00e0 in Venice this year will witness something extraordinary and unexpected in its sacred, elegantly frescoed interior. During this period, the church will be home to <\/span><strong>Vessels of Other Worlds <\/strong>(sponsored by the Long Museum, Shanghai),<span> three magnificent sculptures surrounded by suspended titanium forms. Their creator is <\/span><strong>Wallace Chan<\/strong><span>, the eminent Hong Kong-based artist and jewelleryhellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/17027\/wallace-chan-vessels-other-worlds-long-museum-shanghai-venice-biennale?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14570\/vessels-of-other-worlds-by-wallace-chan\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-968-2250-1500\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/0\/470426.jpg\" alt=\"Vessels of Other Worlds by Wallace Chan\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14570\/vessels-of-other-worlds-by-wallace-chan\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/0\/470424.jpg\" alt=\"Vessels of Other Worlds by Wallace Chan\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14570\/vessels-of-other-worlds-by-wallace-chan\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/0\/470427.jpg\" alt=\"Vessels of Other Worlds by Wallace Chan\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14570\/vessels-of-other-worlds-by-wallace-chan\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/0\/470422.jpg\" alt=\"Vessels of Other Worlds by Wallace Chan\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14570\/vessels-of-other-worlds-by-wallace-chan\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-923-2000-1333\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/0\/470429.jpg\" alt=\"Vessels of Other Worlds by Wallace Chan\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14570\/vessels-of-other-worlds-by-wallace-chan\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/0\/470425.jpg\" alt=\"Vessels of Other Worlds by Wallace Chan\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14570\/vessels-of-other-worlds-by-wallace-chan\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-wallace-chan-s-monumental-venice-biennale-sculptures\">View Gallery (16 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to the Chapel of Santa Maria della Piet\u00e0 in Venice this year will witness something extraordinary and unexpected in its sacred, elegantly frescoed interior. During this period, the church will be home to Vessels of Other Worlds (sponsored by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}