Arts Of The Pacific Asia Show

In San Francisco February 1–3

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SAN FRANCISCO ARTS OF PACIFIC ASIA SHOW PRE FEB. 1-3 w/3 cuts

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — February 1–3 marks the return of the 12th annual San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show at the Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. Pacific Asia Show will launch with the annual gala to benefit the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center on Thursday, January 31, 7 to 10 pm.

A well-known event, the preview is a spectacle that includes colorful lanterns, traditional Chinese stilt-walkers and Lion Dancers. Featuring more than 80 top international dealers in museum-quality arts, the show also boasts a growing attendance museum curators/buyers, of art-lovers, 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. Part museum visit, part collecting extravaganza, visitors to the show have the benefit of visiting the top dealers from the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Bali and Japan, as well as the United States.

All of the exhibitors are considered among the most noted experts in their fields and 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 checkerboard 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.

The 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 Ulrike Montigel, gallery director of Galerie Arabesque.

Contemporary artist Ken Gill will exhibit an all-new collection of stone sculptures titled “What Sleeping Stones Dream.” The exhibit offers a selection of Irish limestone with quartz veining from the Paleozoic period (350 million years ago). Each piece contains a poem inscribed in the heart of the stone and a gold or silver leaf symbol of the dream.

The Festival Pavilion is at the intersection of Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard in the Marina District. The opening night preview will be January 31, 7 to 10 pm.

For preview information, 415-581-3788 or email apa@asianart.org. For show information, 310-455-2886 or www.caskeylees.com.