Forest is one of the themes of Alois Mosbacher's artworks on display at the Bridging Asia-Europe exhibition series in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Unlike a real forest in which trees grow naturally, Mosbacher arranged the trees in his work in a neat, artificial way, as if they were elements of a program.

Hegyi says those unnatural scenes portrayed in Mosbacher's works are a metaphor of the chaotic side of the real world, and he urges his viewers to confront their own hidden universes.

"Like Mosbacher, one will find in himself a forgotten but still vivid and effective empire full of unlimited imagination."

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