Arion Artist Talk "Past Continuous Tense"
Speakers: Lam Tung Pang & Forrest Gander
Moderator: Abby Chen
Date & Time: 2 September 2023, 2pm
Venue: Samsung Hall, Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin Street, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94102)
Multimedia artist Lam Tung Pang will appear in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander to commemorate the release of their artist book "Past Continuous Tense", printed by Arion Press collaborating with the Asian Art Museum. This limited-edition publication includes imagery from Lam’s monumental, paired with a specially commissioned poem by Gander inspired by Lam’s artwork, and gallery-spanning installation of the same name, currently on view at the Asian Art Museum. They will be discussing about role of craft, memory, landscape, and innovation in literature and the arts, the talk will be moderated by the Head of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum and Senior Associate Curator Abby Chen.
About the exhibition --
“Past Continuous Tense” synthesizes a millennium of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese nature scenes scaled up from the picture page to near life size. Great masters, including colophons (artists’ inscriptions or collectors’ stamps) were rendered by using ink painting onto 52 planks of simple plywood spanning 52.5 feet. Gives audiences a chance to connect important works from historical masters, many in the museum’s collection, with an exploration of contemporary themes of global significance.
To register --
https://calendar.asianart.org/event/artist-lam-tung-pang-and-poet-forrest-gander-in-conversation/
