Art for All

Hong Kong artist Simon Ma’s moving exhibition featuring the mythical Drago Cavallo is bringing hope to underprivileged children and communities around the world through art

By Zabrina Lo

In the summer of 2022, the green lawns of Sha Tin Racecourse, alongside the usual sight of horses galloping at full speed, were filled with hundreds of figurines of small, white, plump ponies with the horns, whiskers and sharp ears of a Chinese dragon. The “herd” has since February this year gone on a world tour as part of the Drago Cavallo Travels Around the World project, visiting several cities in China, including Shanghai, Jiangmen and Hangzhou. This month, they’ll be back in town for a month, before they are on the road again to more cities including Beijing, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Rome. These adorable Drago Cavalloes, or longma, which means “dragon horse” in Chinese, are Hong Kong artist Simon Ma’s latest edition of his signature dragon horse design from…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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