Published on October 4, 2024 at 8:56 p.m. / Modified on October 5, 2024 at 07:34.
There is an echo between their two names: Matthew Wong, Vincent Van Gogh. An echo that becomes destiny. The second needs no introduction. The first was beginning to make himself known in the art world when he committed suicide in 2019, at the age of 35. Only one year after his first successful solo exhibition in New York. The man he always considered his master killed himself in 1890, at the age of 37.
The similarities don’t end there. Both were self-taught. The two created a singular body of work in the space of just a few decades, compensating for the short time they had to paint with feverish productivity. Both suffered from psychological disorders which were fatal to them. Both hoped to find in art what the real world was unable to offer them. “I see myself in him. The impossibility of belonging to this world,” Matthew Wong wrote in 2018.
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