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CHINESE CULTURE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO

750 KEARNY ST 3RD FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108

T : 415.986.1822 F: 415.986.2825 WWW.C-C-C.ORG

ADRIAN WONG PRESS COVERAGE

Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal 5/12-8/25


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Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal Artist Adrian Wong excavates the parallels between the

architecture and design of San Franciscos Chinatown and 1970s

Hong Kong in a solo exhibition at the Chinese Culture Center

May 12-August 25, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO This spring, the Chinese Culture Center (CCC) of San Francisco

continues its annual Xian Rui (fresh and sharp) exhibition series with Orange Peel,

Harbor Seal, Hyperreal, the first solo exhibition in the Bay Area of the work of critically-

acclaimed American artist Adrian Wong. The six new sculptural works, created

specifically for the exhibition, excavate the similarities and parallels between the present

architecture and design of San Franciscos Chinatown and that of Hong Kong circa 1970.

Wong, also selected as one of 31 international artists to participate in the Asian Art

Museums concurrentPhantoms of Asia contemporary art exhibition (May 18 September

2), relies heavily on a research-based method to explore the intricacies of his relationship to

his environment -- experientially, historically, culturally, and through the filter of

fantastical or fictionalized narratives.

Wong made three separate trips to San Francisco in preparation for the exhibition at the

CCC, spending countless hours wandering the streets of Chinatown. Based part time in

Hong Kong, he was struck by the closely related, but distinct sense of nostalgia that asserts

itself visually in both places.

While the Cultural Revolution raged in China in the 1960s and 1970s, British-ruled Hong

Kong experienced a vibrant and often idiosyncratic commingling of western psychedelic

and traditional Chinese design cultures. References to Taoist cosmology in decorative motifs

and staid patterns were suddenly re-presented in colorful abstractions of their original ceremonial

counterparts. This now iconic heyday of design, made mythic during the Golden Age of

Hong Kong cinema, was burned into the collective consciousness of not only the Chinese

Diaspora but also of the world at large as representative of the exotic East.

Across Hong Kong, the products of this period became ubiquitous and remain distinctive to this

daythough most have fallen into disrepair. Carrying the markers of decades of use, they

nevertheless continue to catch the eye, making appearances in unexpected places: in alleyways,

beneath layers of dust in Chinese medical dispensaries, well-worn countertops in local eateries,

and in piles of detritus generated by the unending urban renewal projects initiated by the tourism

board.


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Artwork Price List Artist: Adrian Wong

No. Thumbnail Title (in English)

Year of

artwork Medium

Dimension

(in inch) Sale price Sold

1

Untitled (Wall IV)

2012

ceramic and

glass mosaic

tile, poplar,

steel

36 x 48 x 4 $17,500.00

2

Untitled (Wall V)

2012

ceramic and

glass mosaic

tile, poplar,

steel

36 x 48 x 4

On loan from

the artist

3

Untitled (Carpet I)

2012

carpet, carpet

padding,

poplar, steel

36 x 120 x 4 $20,000.00

4

Untitled (Carpet II)

2012

carpet, carpet

padding,

poplar, steel

36 x 120 x 4 $20,000.00

5

Untitled (Grate III / IV :

Golden Electrical

Company / Sheng Kung

Hui Kei Yan Primary

School)

2012

steel, enamel

60 x 60 x 5 $15,000.00

6

Untitled (Grate I / II :

Shan Mei Playground /

Grand Fortune

Mansion)

2012

steel, enamel

60 x 60 x 5 $15,000.00


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Untitled (Wall II, detail)

Untitled (Wall II)


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Untitled (Wall III)

Untitled(Grate I/II)


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mosaic tied building facades to the kitschy chandeliers in stores and restaurants. Chinatown, Wong says,looks like a living, though distorted, simulacrum of 1970s Hong Kong.

In addition to the six works for the show, Wong is transforming the walls of the Chinese Culture Centersgallery, cladding them in brick and tile and then breaking those down, to give the space an aged HongKong ambience. The show runs Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Aug. 25 at ChineseCulture Center, 750 Kearny St., third foor (inside the Hilton Hotel). Wong also has been selected as oneof 31 interational artists to participate in the Asian AtMuseums Phantoms of Asia contemporary art exhibition, which opens Friday. Like his works for theChinese Culture Center, the sculptures on view at the Asian Art Museum explore the intricacies of Wongsrelationship to his environment, some play with the precepts of feng shui, using ceremonial objects fromthe museumss collection.


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