Through his politically radical paintings, Martin Wong sought to highlight marginalised communities in late 20th-century San Francisco and New York
brings together paintings from throughout his prolific career, displayed against vibrant coloured walls that highlight the playfulness within“He’s an unbelievable artist,” says Camden Arts Centre’s Martin Clark, who has been working on the exhibition for the last four years in collaboration with the team at Berlin’s KW Institute, which showed the exhibition earlier this year.
“A lot of the issues we’re talking about today in terms of identity were really being played out live when Martin was making work, but without the language and structures we use to talk about them now,” says Clark. “Those concerns about how you might find your identity amongst other groups and ideas of otherness are something we’re really talking about now.”
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