TITANIUM, AGONY AND TRANQUILITY: THE TRANSCENDENCE OF WALLACE CHAN

Three decades back, Wallace Chan, plagued by a brutal headache in Tibet, heard inside his painfully suffering head an internal melody, an experience that resurfaced when curator James Putnam introduced him to Brian Eno's music. This auditory memory served as the genesis for "Transcendence," Chan's latest exhibit in Venice.
Today, in the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà (Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà), Chan's gigantesque titanium sculptures, dangling from above, bearing expressions akin to Munch's anguish, coexist with Eno's haunting tunes.