Antonio Casadei & Hong Kong’s first public art commissionsExhibition and TalksMar 18 – Jul 10, 2023 Ping Pong Gintonería 129 Second StreetL/G Nam Cheong House Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong +852 9035 6197 Tuesday – Sunday, 6pm – 10pm @PINGPONG129 The exhibition shows a selection of work completed by the artist in Hong Kong and includes a photo-essay by Hong Kong photographer William Furniss about Casadei’s public art installations in Statue Square and Mei Foo Sun Chuen.  Antonio Casadei (1923-2014) was born in Forli, Italy and had a long career as a renowned painter, ceramist, photographer and cinematographer, and as a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. After studying ceramics in 1948, he built a reputation for large ceramic and sculptural installations for residential and commercial projects in Italy during the 1950s.  Arriving in Hong Kong in 1962, coinciding with Hong Kong’s post-war building boom, he set up a ceramic studio in the New Territories, holding regular exhibitions of his paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramic works during the 1960s and 70s. He was commissioned to design …