Wallace Chan’s Vessels of Other Worlds: When Monumentality Meets Meditation

Wallace Chan’s Vessels of Other Worlds: When Monumentality Meets Meditation

At Shanghai’s Long Museum, Wallace Chan’s Vessels of Other Worlds unites technical mastery and philosophical inquiry through monumental works shaped by matter, memory and the unseen. There is a strange contradiction at the heart of Wallace Chan’s career. Few living artists have his extraordinary technical mastery, yet technical mastery has rarely been fashionable in contemporary art. For decades, the art world has tended to celebrate concept ove…