Two exhibitions
dal 27/5/2010 al 21/8/2010
Segnalato da
27/5/2010
Two exhibitions
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln
Danh Vo / Martin Wong
Martin Wong
Works 1980 - 1998
Martin Wong (1946-1999) was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in the Chinatown district of
San Francisco, California. He studied ceramics at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1968.
During the 1970s he was active in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene, and was involved with
the performance art groups The Cockettes and Angels of Light. In 1978 he moved to Manhattan,
eventually settling in the Lower East Side, where his attention turned exclusively to painting. He
was first exhibited in a group show at ABC No Rio in 1982, and went on to have one person shows
at Semaphore Gallery, Exit Art and PPOW.
Wong was a collector and connoisseur of everything from graffiti to Asian antiquities. His graffiti
collection grew to be perhaps the largest in the world; in 1993 he donated it to the Museum of the
City of New York.
Martin Wong’s works can be found in institutional collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the de Young Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art. The Martin Wong Papers reside at the Fales Library, New York University, and
include sketchbooks, correspondence, biographical documents, video cassette recordings,
photos, graffiti-related materials, and parts of Wong’s personal library.
Martin Wong died in San Francisco from an AIDS related illness in 1999. The Martin Wong
Foundation has been created in his memory.
The exhibitions features paintings by Martin Wong from 1980 to 1998. As well as this, early
collages and photographs from the archive of Martin Wong at the Fales Library were selected
for the exhibition by the artists Danh Vo and Julie Ault are shown in vitrines and are displayed
in the window of the gallery.
To accompany the exhibition we present a video portrait of Martin Wong by filmmaker Charlie
Ahearn. Among other things Ahearn is known for his early film ‘Wild Style’ (1982) documenting
the New York Hip Hop and Graffiti scene.
Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Elisenstraße 4-6 50677 Köln
Tue-Fr 11-18, Sa 11-16
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Danh Vo
L'artiste et le décorateur
1.
Ottomane, mahagony with maple intarsia, Berlin 1825. Covering in pompejian red moiré.
2.
White glazed tiles, each with one of a number of different plant details screenprinted on
in warm red. The engravings of the plant details reproduced, were chosen according to
a list of flowers discovered by french missionary and botanist Jean-André Soulié in the
regions of southern China and Tibet in the late 19th century, from the archive of the
Musée National d‘Histoire Naturelle, Paris: Aconitum souliei, Inflorescence portion
Lilium souliei, outer and inner tepel / Anemone coelestina var. souliei, flowering plant
Rosa soulieana, fruit / Aconitum souliei, cauline leaf / Anemone coelestina, basal leaf
Anemone coelestina, carpel / Luzula rufescens, flowering plant
Anconitum souliei, upper cauline leaf / Anemone coelestina, basal leaf
Anemone coelestina, flowering plant / Rosa soulieana, fruiting branch
Lilium souliei, distal portion of flowering plant / Nepeta souliei, flowering plant
Rosa soulieana, flowering branch / Cerasus fruticosa, fruiting branch
Cerasus tomentosa var. souliei, fruiting branch.
3.
White ceramic bidet with chrome bidet battery.
4.
Painting from an unknown Vietnamese artist depicting the martyrdom of Jean-Charles
Cornay, who was cut into pieces on 20 September 1837, entitled "Martyre du Bienheureux
Charles Cornay, M.E.P., coupé en morceaux au Tonkin, le 20 Septembre 1837" from the
collection of the Missions-Étrangères, Paris, screenprinted on shower curtain made of silk chiffon.
* A bathroom imagined in consultation with architect Etienne Descloux PE-P.
Image: Danh Vo, Boys seen through a shop window. Installation view, Antiquariat Buchholz 2009
Opening reception on Friday 28 May, 7 - 9 pm
Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Neven-DuMont-Str. 17 . 50667 Köln
Tue-Fr 11-18, Sa 11-16