San Francisco Downtown Sculpted in Cookware!
Zhan Wang, a Beijing-based artist, has re-created downtown San Francisco using cookware. Pretty creative I’d say although the only building I can identify is the TransAmerica building pointing up at the right of the picture.
I am guessing that the spoons at the bottom are the boats at the docks…
Lol… this is more fun than real pictures!
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. Collecting these rocks from around China, Wang painstakingly pounds, bends, heats, and molds sections of stainless steel plate across the cloud-like topography of each rock, as if wrapping it in steel–in essence, applying a modern industrial skin to an ancient geologic body. After the steel has been shaped around the rock it is peeled away in sections, welded together as a single unit–a now-hollow duplicate of the rock–and polished to a flawless steel sheen, in some cases almost a mirror finish. The resulting play of light upon their surfaces has the effect of seeming to disembody and even liquefy the steel sculptures, as if they were luminous floating masses or shimmering topographies.
Tags: asianart, beijing, boulders, contemplation, docks, molds, natural forces, play of light, scholars rocks, single unit, spiritual landscapes, spoons, stainless steel plate, stainless steel sculptures, topographies, topography, transamerica building, world renown, zhan
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