Zhan Wang: Cookware Skyline

I always worry that I have too many pots and pans. I hear it all the time,"Where are we going to put that?" and "You can't buy that; you have nowhere to put that." Looking at these pictures I realize that I have many more pots to buy and when the cupboards fill up I can simply start stacking. All I need to do would be to find my old Lego people to live in the new skyscrapers.

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.

The city of San Fran was done by Beijing-based artist Zhan Wang. Read the article on Ethicurean.com

Wang's work is on display at the Asian Art Museum in San Fransisco. Here's a link to that site.