Wallace Chan at Canary Wharf - TITANS: A dialogue between materials, space & time

10 of Wallace Chan's large-scale titanium and iron sculptures were on display in One Canada Square & Cabot Square in Canary Wharf, including 3 new and never-seen-before sculptures.

Curator and writer James Putnam says in the official press release, “The verticality of the sculpture’s elongated multi-tiered silver face creates a fitting dialogue with the 50-story steel clad skyscraper that rises behind it on the London skyline. By juxtaposing two very different sculptural materials, Chan evokes a sense of duality, where the lightness and durability of titanium is contrasted with iron’s weightiness and susceptibility to corrosion.”

Wallace Chan says, “The large-scale titanium sculptures come from a lifetime of memories and experiences, including my early years creating carvings and sculptures inspired by Greek mythology. TITANS, named after a group of super-strong giants, connects my present to my past. The series also acts as a passage to the future; carved and sculpted with a material as strong and resistant as titanium, my sculptures act as time capsules.”