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There is a fantastic show of works by Martin Wong<\/a><\/strong> touring right now: Malicious Mischief<\/a><\/em> is the first European retrospective of the Chinese-American artist who was a trailblazer for queer art and counterculture. His career started in San Francisco and Eureka where he became a master potter and collaborated with the Angels of Light Free Theater<\/a><\/strong>. In the late 70s he moved to New York and started his emblematic painting style, mixing gritty street scenes with graffiti, sign language and Chinese iconography. He was a charismatic chronicler of the Lower East Side Latino scene and a witty critic of the art establishment\u2018s reactionary discourse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was in the 80s when the AIDS crisis was happening and gay sex was demonized. My favorite paintings are not the brick dicks but his series of dark gated storefronts. They instantly lead me back to \u201ethe Loisaida\u201c where I lived in the 90s two blocks from Wong\u2018s studio on Ridge Street. He died on August 12, 1999 – way to early. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malicious Mischief, 1991, 51 x 61 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Son of Sam Sleeps, 1981, 122 x 183 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled (Poetry Storefront), 1986, 244 x 290 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Detail from: Stripped Trans Am at Avenue C and 5th Street, 1984, 122 x 234 cm <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Orion, 1990-91, 158 x 91 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gate Diptych, 1988, 183 x 125 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Basically, I am a Chinese landscape painter. I paint landscapes so I guess that\u2018s it. If you look at all the Chinese landscapes in the museums, they have writing in the sky. They write a poem in the sky. And I do that.<\/p>\nMartin Wong, interview in East Village Eye 5, no. 48, Oct. 1984<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t miss his show! It was the must-see-exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art<\/a><\/strong> during Gallery Weekend<\/a><\/strong> in Berlin, just opened at Camden Art Center<\/a><\/strong> in London (until September 17th) and will come to Stedelijk Museum<\/a><\/strong> in Amsterdam in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you like this post please check out my text on Surrealism in Brussels<\/a> and my review of Berlinale film festival and the Me-Too-themed movie T\u00e1r with Cate Blanchett<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a fantastic show of works by Martin Wong touring right now: Malicious Mischief is the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[79,82,83,80,76,81,77,78],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-kunst","tag-aids-crisis","tag-camden-art-center","tag-gay-sex","tag-graffiti","tag-martin-wong","tag-new-york","tag-queer-art","tag-urban-landscapes"],"yoast_head":"\nMartin Wong: Queer Sex and the City - U\u00c4 \u2013 UND \u00c4HNLICHES<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First major retrospective of Asian-American painter Martin Wong, a multi-tanlented artist and trail blazer for queer art, is touring Europe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/utethon.com\/en\/martin-wong-queer-sex-and-the-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Martin Wong: Queer Sex and the City - 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