ART KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES
May 05, 2022
3 minutes
By Li Xiaoyang
Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon
Bustling and energetic, gritty and crumbling… words can never truly describe downtown Naples’ Quartieri Spagnoli, or the Spanish Quarters.
The district’s street network was laid out in the 17th century, during the Spanish rule of the Kingdom of Naples, the third largest municipality in Italy today.
Its old communities proved a source of inspiration for 29-year-old Chinese curator and photographer Wang Hui and Michele Quercia, a professor in his thirties with the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, Italy. Together they orchestrated a community design overhaul by introducing wave-shaped
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