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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. The inaugural exhibition of the series immerses us in the world of Wallace Chan, a prominent jewellery artist of the 21st century. This exhibition is also the artist’s largest exhibition in the world to date.
Chinese artist and innovator Wallace Chan is the first living contemporary artist to exhibit at Shanghai Museum East. Renowned as the “formidable Chinese” among European jewellers, he has utilised various gemstones and metals in his artistic practice for five decades, guided by a profound appreciation for nature. Drawing poetic inspiration from chan (“cicadas”) and incorporating chan (“Zen Buddhism”) into his poetic creations, Chan transcends the boundaries of craftsmanship and contemplation.
Wallace Chan: Half a Century is co-curated by Shanghai Museum and Danish Royal Jewellery Curator Nina Hald. Over 200 pieces of the artist's masterpieces will be on view at Shanghai Museum East. It is an unprecedented review of Chan’s oeuvre as an artist and innovator over five decades of dedicated work, juxtaposed with prestigious loans from the collections of the Shanghai Museum, the Palace Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Wallace Chan (1956– ) began as a gemstone carver in 1973 at the age of 16. An artist and innovator, his curiosity and thirst for knowledge led to his creation of numerous innovations, which so far include: The Wallace Cut (an illusionary three-dimensional carving technique he invented in 1987), mastery of titanium in jewellery making, patented jadeite luminosity-enhancing technology, the invention of elaborate gemstone settings without metal claws, the Secret Abyss, and most recently, The Wallace Chan Porcelain, a material five times stronger than steel.
His works are in the permanent collections of the Shanghai Museum (2024); the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2024); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2023); the Long Museum (2023); the British Museum, London (2019); the Capital Museum, Beijing (2010); and the Ningbo Museum, Ningbo (2010). Chan has had solo exhibitions at Pieta Chapel (Venice, 2024), Christie’s (Hong Kong, 2019; Shanghai, 2020 and 2021; London, 2023); Canary Wharf (London, 2022); Fondaco Marcello (Venice, 2021 and 2022); Asia House (London, 2019); the Gemological Institute of America Museum (Carlsbad, 2011); the Ningbo Museum (Ningbo, 2010), the Capital Museum (Beijing, 2010); the Kaohsiung Museum of History (Taiwan, 1999); and Deutsches Edelsteinmuseum (Idar-Oberstein, 1992). Chan is also the first Chinese jewellery artist ever invited to exhibit at the Biennale des Antiquaires (Paris, 2012 and 2024), TEFAF Maastricht (Maastricht, 2016-2020; New York, 2016-2017) and Masterpiece London (London, 2016-2017), a living legend that spearheads the movement of contemporary Chinese jewellery art on the world stage.
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