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I remember standing inside one of Wallace Chan’s monumental installations and feeling slightly frustrated by it. The work was designed as a vessel, something between sculpture, architecture and an imagined cosmic interior. You could enter it, move around it, look through layers of metal and reflected light. Nearby, another even larger structure seemed to promise the same physical immersion, yet remained inaccessible.
During the opening of Vessels of Other Worlds at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai, our correspondent Ekaterina Vinogradova had the opportunity to speak with acclaimed artist Wallace Chan.
The work of Wallace Chan resists easy categorization. It moves between sculpture and jewelry, physics and metaphysics, material precision and philosophical speculation. Over the past decades, he has not only redefined what contemporary jewelry can be, but has also constructed an entirely personal language – one in which gemstones become vessels of time, and matter itself seems to hesitate between presence and disappearance.
The Dual-Site Exhibition Premieres During the Venice Biennale at the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà and Long Museum in Shanghai.
From 3 July to 7 October, Shanghai Museum’s “Drawing Inspiration from the Past: Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art” Exhibition Series’ inaugural exhibition, Wallace Chan: Half a Century, will be on view at the Bright Dairy & Food Exhibition Gallery 1 of Shanghai Museum East.
Wallace Chan took us on a captivating adventure into his enchanting world as a jewelry artist, sculptor, and innovator in his celebrated exhibition “The Wheel of Time” presented by the renowned auction house Christie’s London at the beginning of September.
