0-Viewpoint
Curated by Abby Chen
Opening Reception: April 22, 2010, 6-7:30pm
Exhibition Date: April 23,2010-September 5, 2010
FREE Admission
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Guided tours available for groups upon request
Traveling exhibition date: Oct 7, 2010 – Jan 11, 2011
575 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Free Admission
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12pm-6pm
Stella Zhang is the featured artist of the 2010 Xian Rui (“Fresh & Sharp”) Artist Excellence Exhibition Series. The Exhibition Series is an annual solo exhibition curated by the Chinese Culture Center to showcase the work of exceptional but under-represented and under-recognized Chinese artist in America. In previous years the Series has featured artists such as installation artist Beili Liu from Austin, Texas and fiber Dora Hsiung from Boston, MA.
This year’s artist, Stella Zhang, was born in Beijing and studied in both China and Japan before moving to the United States where she currently lives in Palo Alto, CA. Zhang’s uniquely complex and engaging 0-Viewpoint installation explores the constantly shifting inner landscapes of self and femininity. Her latest work, 0—Viewpoint, which made the debut for Xian Rui 2010, was created to convey the idea that everything came into existence by beginning and ending at zero.
Artist Talk (DATE CHANGE)
Behind “0-Viewpoint” – Meet Artist Stella Zhang
Saturday, August 14, 2010 2-3:00pm, at 750 Kearny St. 3rd Floor
The Xian Rui Artist Excellence Exhibition Series 2008-2010 was made possible by the generous support of the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
Preview a short clip behind the making of “0-Viewpoint” and join us on August 14th for the premiere of the documentary!
“Like other pieces in the ‘Xian Rui’ series, ‘Zero-Viewpoint’ is meant to challenge the perceptions of art in the Chinese community.” – Alexandria Regilio, San Francisco Chronicle
“Indeed, it nearly hits you on your way in.” – Leanna Yip, sfappeal
“0-Viewpoint is deeply personal, incredibly intimate, and sometimes startling, but a fascinating and thought-provoking meditation.” – Ann Taylor, SF Station
“One can almost hear viewpoints inside the minds of these figures void of expression.” – Carol Koffel, Art Practical
“But Zhang manages to unerringly play with the precarious balance between delicacy and brutality, allowing the installations to question these tensions rather than become about them.” – Michele Carlson, Art Practical
“0-Viewpoint” Catalogues soon to be released and can be purchased at the Chinese Culture Center’s gift shop. Check with our gift shop for availability.
Hello,
Please let me start by saying we had a truly wonderful tour. Our guide was animated and informative, and made this experience come alive.
My issue, and I know I am not alone, was with the choice of the Center to introduce Chinatown to these 11 and 12 year old children with a collection of phalluses, vulvae, eggs and ovaries full of toothpicks, and the 12 months of the artist’s menstrual cycle. It was not particularly comfortable for the children, and the parents were taken aback. The rather dubious artistic value of this exhibit, which from a purely aesthetic point of view was, for me personally, too contrived and anxious to represent art with any importance, was coupled with the inappropriateness of the tour for the age group. Please try to imagine yourselves at this age, when the dreadfully eager guide asks the kids to discuss what their impressions are, and most of the kids are just trying not to die laughing. We had a wonderful tour of Chinatown. Afterwards, all the kids are talking about is that really rather stupid exhibit, which has no relevance to China, Chinatown or the history of the Chinese population in San Francisco.
Thank you again for a great tour, but please, think about omitting this silly segment from a middle-school program.
Thank you,
Vesa Becam
April 28, 2010 7:39:31 PM PDT
非常大膽前衛，同時又敏銳深沉，揭示内心的情感，印象深刻！
Stella Zhang’s art work is very thought. provoking intrigui
簡單明瞭
i’m a bit sad because some white girls next to me and laughed and say :this is the Chinese culture!”Anyways, but i’m impresses by the shape a sculpture.simply made by the clothes and other simple materials.
Pain, touch,deep,wonderful
The gallery space is very peaceful.
Personal,fresh&innovative
Wonderful exhibit! Would love to meet the aritst
We see what we expect to see,don’t we?
It MAKES me thinking…
— LOVE, MAKING LOVE, KEEPING LOVE, GROWING LOVE, EXTENDING LOVE!
Thank you so much! Stella