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Fri Feb 15 - Sun May 25

On Gold Mountain

Sculptures from the Sierra by Zhan Wang


Tel. 415-581-3500
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$5 - $12
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Location
Date and Time
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Civic Center Plaza
district: Civic Center

Fri Feb 15 (Tues - Sun 10 am to 5 pm, Thurs until 9 pm)
Sat Feb 16 (Tues - Sun 10 am to 5 pm, Thurs until 9 pm)
Sun Feb 17 (Tues - Sun 10 am to 5 pm, Thurs until 9 pm)
Mon Feb 18 (Tues - Sun 10 am to 5 pm, Thurs until 9 pm)
Tue Feb 19 (Tues - Sun 10 am to 5 pm, Thurs until 9 pm)

Description
Zhan Wang is among the most respected artists in China, having become world-renown for his stainless steel sculptures of “scholars' rocks,” the graceful, craggy boulders found in several provinces around China that seem to have been sculpted by natural forces into complex forms worthy of thoughtful contemplation–almost like mental or spiritual landscapes.

For his exhibition at the Asian Art Museum, Wang has selected rocks from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, alluding to the nineteenth-century Chinese immigrant experience of mining gold during the California gold rush. Both the actual rocks and their stainless steel versions will be exhibited. The artist will also create a topographic San Francisco cityscape–one of his “urban landscape” series– using steel rocks, mirrored surfaces, silverware, and stainless steel pots and pans.