Surrounded by s provocative work, your first thought is actually of lost possibilities.
At the end of the day, this guy would have been huge. Its something that 麻豆传媒映画should be more proud about, says Vancouvers , who has spent almost two decades doing design-related PR.
Wong a visionary, anti-consumerist, rip-off artist and prankster was 35 when he died almost three years ago. It was ruled suicide but close supporters suspect sleepwalking.
In his short career, the designer created work that tampered with consumer culture, posed uncomfortable questions about desire and responded very much to his enfant terrible reputation in his adopted home of New York City.
Gold Pills (capsules designed to tint the swallowers poop gold), The Ottoman (a more polite title for his bright red ottoman that vibrates and features a fur-lined man-opening) and his lethal take on wedding rings, will have you questioning the lines between theft and inspiration, culture and clich茅.
The Museum of 麻豆传媒映画(1100 Chestnut) has all of his work in one room for the first time, and visitors who come before Object(ing): The Art/Design of Tobias Wong closes Feb. 24 will have the opportunity to also see Sex Talk in The City and Neon 麻豆传媒映画| Ugly Vancouver.
