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Style and Flare: Reflections of the East--Serenity, Timelessness & Flow on Display
at the San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show February 1-3, 2008
Opening Night Benefits the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture
San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show
Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion
San Francisco
February 1 – 3, 2008
(September 2007 - San Francisco CA) This February marks the return of one of San Francisco’s favorite treats. The twelfth annual San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show is taking place at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion on February 1-3, 2008. The event begins with a major benefit for the Asian Art Museum’s Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture. Featuring more than 80 top international dealers in museum quality arts, the show also boasts a growing attendance of art-lovers, museum curators/ buyers, collectors and ethnographically curious.
Over the years, the San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show has grown to become one of the West Coast’s largest and most anticipated celebrations of Asian art, history and culture. This event satisfies the enthusiasm of seasoned art collectors and the curiosity of art and culture-lovers. With an impressive array of world-class works compiled under one roof this show offers a wide and unique selection of museum-quality antique and contemporary items, available at a range of prices. Part museum visit, part collecting extravaganza, visitors to the show have the benefit of visiting the top dealers from the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Bali, Japan and other top US destinations without leaving the city.
Offering a complete sensory experience, this show is more than visually stunning. Centuries-old artifacts are literally at your fingertips and visitors are invited to engage the knowledgeable dealers and interact with the items on display. All of the exhibitors are considered among to be the most noted experts in their fields and are not only passionate about their work, but also approachable and easy-to-talk-to. They are frequently called upon as expert lecturers on the museum and university circuit.
The diverse art, ceramics, antiques, textiles and jewelry available at the show include Tibetan chequerboard rugs; Han Dynasty pottery; Buddhist artifacts and Chinese dragon robes; Japanese fine and antique folk art, kimonos and woodblock prints; oriental rugs; costumes; erotic art; masks; southeast textiles; furniture; guardian figures; rank badges and trade porcelain.
Reflections of the East--Serenity, Timelessness & Flow
The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show will feature a special retail exhibition of oil paintings by German Artist Marta Resende. This exhibit will focus on how antique and traditional Asian art is inspiring a new generation of Modern art in Asia and will be curated by Gallery Director of Galerie Arabesque, Ulrike Montigel.
Resende, who recently exhibited at Galerie Arabesque in Germany states, “My point of departure as an artist lies at the intersection between an objective medial documentation of reality and the analysis of it. The principal aim of this analysis is to bring out the correlation between formal structures and subjective elements. Digital photography technology and computer-aided picture processing are for me a means to an end, an intermediate step on the way to creating large-scale oil paintings”
The oil paintings of Marta Resende will be on display and available for purchase beginning Thursday January 31 at the Preview Gala for the Asian Art Museum.
Opening Night Preview
The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show will launch with the Annual Gala to benefit for the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center on Thursday, January 31, 2008, 7pm-10pm. A well-known event imprinted in San Francisco’s social calendar, the preview evening is a stunning spectacle that includes colorful lanterns, traditional Chinese stilt-walkers and Lion Dancers. The opening night preview will be chaired by Bob & Lauren Ackerman, Kathy & Paul Bissinger and Martha Hertelendy. The preview also offers guests the first opportunity to view and purchase the work on display.
General admission for The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show is $15 per person. The show is open to the public Friday February 1, from 11:00am-7:00pm; Saturday, February 2, from 11:00am – 7:00pm; and Sunday, February 3 from 11:00am-5:00pm. There will be no admittance after 4:30pm on Sunday. There is a special Opening Night Preview to benefit the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center on Thursday, January 31 from 7:00pm – 10:00pm. Please call (415) 581-3788 or email apa@asianart.org for details regarding the opening night benefit preview.
The Arts of Pacific Asia Show is held at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center, which is located at the intersection of Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard in the Marina District of San Francisco. For additional information, the public should call (310) 455-2886, or visit www.caskeylees.com.
For press information contact Agnes Gomes-Koizumi AGK Media Group at (323) 937-5488 or agnes@agkmediagroup.com.
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