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EXHIBITIONS, ON THE GROUND
ShangHART and ARTMIA Gallery are presenting ” Close to the Sea · The Revival of the Snake” -YANG Fudong Solo Exhibition which is Yang Fudong’s first Beijing solo show and the premiere of the works in China.Yang Fudong is contemporary video and photography artist and his work has been exhibited at many galleries and art museums.
Close to the Sea (2004)
In this ten-channel video installation, a concert is being staged at the seaside. Accompanied by various musical instruments, the love story of a young couple is unfolded on the same location. The videos set on the centre display two scenarios taking place simultaneously: one shows a young couple riding a horse along the sea and the other a pair of lovers struggling for survival from a ship accident. Read the full post »
EXHIBITIONS, ON THE GROUND
PACE BEIJING is presenting a solo exhibition by multi-media artist HIROSHI SUGIMOTO which attracted a lot of art lovers to see the opening.
Gelatin silver prints will constitute the entirety of the exhibition, elegantly demonstrating the value Sugimoto places on the technical aspects of photography. Through a keen understanding of the nuances of silver-print making, Sugimoto captures the medium’s full potential for tonal richness in his seemingly infinite palette of blacks, whites, and grays. His iconic photographs have bridged Eastern and Western ideologies, tracing the origins of time and societal progress along the way.
Sugimoto’s practice is fundamentally grounded in conceptions of time. Beginning in 1975, Sugimoto launched what David Elliott called “the artist’s fundamental trinity of genres out of which all of his other work has grown.” The force of time activates and connects the subject matter for these three iconic and ongoing series, Dioramas, Theaters, and Seascapes. The completed series Henry VIII and His Six Wives from 1999 will also be on display, capturing the art historic moment of the Renaissance portraiture tradition. Read the full post »
HEADLINES, News
EXHIBITIONS, ON THE GROUND
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, HEADLINES
March 25 – May 27, 2012
UCCA
798 Art District, Beijing
“Gu Dexin: The Important Thing is Not the Meat” traces the full arc of Gu’s solo career, from his amateur paintings in the late 1970s through his climactic final piece of 2009, bringing together nearly 300 works. In doing so, it presents Gu’s work as an alternative history of the development of contemporary art in China: his early paintings toggle readily among the Western styles then being digested, just as his later performative installations foreshadowed larger debates over acceptable forms and materials both inside the Chinese art world and in the nascent international interpretive community around it. Read the full post »
Yang Fudong at ShangHART Gallery and ArtMia Gallery
May 12 – June 15 ShangHART & ARTMIA Caochangdi Art District,Beijing
Close to the sea at ShangHART exhibition view
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO at Pace Beijing Gallery
May 12 – July 7, 2012 PACE BEIJING 798 Art District, Beijing
PACE BEIJING is presenting a solo exhibition by multi-media artist HIROSHI SUGIMOTO which attracted a lot of art lovers to see the opening.
Gelatin silver prints will constitute the entirety of the exhibition, elegantly demonstrating the value Sugimoto places on the technical aspects of photography. Through a keen understanding of the nuances of silver-print making, Sugimoto captures the medium’s full potential for tonal richness in his seemingly infinite palette of blacks, whites, and grays. His iconic photographs have bridged Eastern and Western ideologies, tracing the origins of time and societal progress along the way.
Sugimoto’s practice is fundamentally grounded in conceptions of time. Beginning in 1975, Sugimoto launched what David Elliott called “the artist’s fundamental trinity of genres out of which all of his other work has grown.” The force of time activates and connects the subject matter for these three iconic and ongoing series, Dioramas, Theaters, and Seascapes. The completed series Henry VIII and His Six Wives from 1999 will also be on display, capturing the art historic moment of the Renaissance portraiture tradition. Read the full post »
HEADLINES, NewsChinese Art Star Zhang Huan Stops Traffic With an “Over-the-Top” Public Sculpture for Downtown Toronto
Zhang Huan
ART INFO reivews Chinese art star Zhang huan’s art project “Stop traffic with an ‘over the – top’ public sculpture for downtown Toronto”.
“Crowds gathered on Saturday in anticipation of international art star Zhang Huan and the grand unveiling of his impressive new public sculpture, “Rising,” veritably shutting down one of the Canadian metropolis’s busiest streets. The flashy new work was unveiled in a ceremony outside the Living Shangri-La Toronto complex on University Avenue north of Adelaide. On hand were a duo of city councilors and Art Gallery of Ontario director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, Read the full post »
EXHIBITIONS, ON THE GROUNDGuo Hongwei:Painting is Collecting at Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
May 5 – June 23, 2012
Chambers Fine Art
Caochangdi,Beijing
In so far as Guo Hongwei depicted objects close at hand in the paintings shown in the 2009 exhibition and immediately after, his works were to a certain degree autobiographical. With Painting is Collecting , he moves out of the studio into a much broader arena that incorporates mankind’s curiosity concerning the world in which he lives, the classification and understanding of the relationships between the infinite variety of animals, insects, plants and minerals. Not only has he visited natural history museums and botanical gardens with their ancient herbaria, he has also read widely in historical literature and developed a keen appreciation of the artistry of botanical illustrators of previous centuries. From this vast amount of material, he has selected certain images that appeal to him as a result of their cultural patina and has also created arrangements of his own that show his interest in tracking relationships between closely related forms. Read the full post »
Jiang Zhi “Impure Light” at Saamlung, Hong Kong
Jiang Zhi, Slight Smile, Shortcut Code, 2012, Oil on Canvas, 90 x 100 cm Courtesy of Saamlung
15 May – 16 June
Saamlung
HongKong
Saamlung will presents a solo exhibition new and recent work in painting from the Beijing-based mid-career artist Jiang Zhi, entitled “Impure Light” In an ongoing series of works in oil on canvas produced as representations of moments of glitch and failure in everyday computing, Jiang explores the possibilities of perception and essence in an era aesthetically dominated by mechanical logics of sensation and communication. Read the full post »
EXHIBITIONS, ON THE GROUNDXu Bing solo exhibition: Book from the Ground at Shanghai Gallery of Art
April 21th – May 29th
Shanghai Gallery of Art
Shanghai
Xu Bing exhibition view
Xu Bing is a prominent figure in the global contemporary art world, and one of the giants of Chinese contemporary art. His early groundbreaking re-interpretation of Chinese characters, Chinese calligraphy and printing history, and his engagement with the installation medium, re-defined the way many subsequent Chinese artists approached their aesthetic traditions. A recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, he has shown at numerous important exhibition spaces worldwide, including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Joan Miro Foundation in Spain, and the 45th, and 51st Venice Biennials, among others. Read the full post »
EXHIBITIONSThe Untouchables at Saamlung, Hong Kong
April 10th -May 10
Saamlung
Hong Kong
“The Untouchables.” is a group show of six Chinese and American artists dealing with the qualities of the surface within conceptual art today, including painting, photography, sculpture, and digital work.
Works on view feature painting from Conor Backman, Kadar Brock, and Hou Yong; digital image-based work from Travess Smalley and Jo-ey Tang; and a spatial intervention from Yan Xing. Delving into the status of the surface within artistic practice today, this group of artists presents a diverse set of interpretations of the relationships between mediation, process, texture, and the tangible.
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2012 Photo Spring at Caochangdi
| April 21, 2012 |
April 21,2012
Three Shadows Photography Art Center
Caochangdi, Beijing
For its third edition, the festival has continued to broaden its international photography network as well as maintaining its emphasis on young Chinese photography. From the international photography world, PhotoSpring will feature 2011 Nadar Prize winner Jean-Christian Bourcart, Singaporean photographer Stefen Chow, and Japanese photographer Hisaji Hara. The Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition will showcase the talents of a new generation of Chinese photographers while other exhibitions will allow young curators to share their views on contemporary Chinese photography. Caochangdi PhotoSpring will celebrate its relationship with the festival Les Rencontres d’Arles through a special exhibition curated by its director François Hébel, who will present Brian Griffin’s latest series, The Black Country, for the first time in China. The photography collection of the French region Pays de la Loire will also be a highlight of this year’s programming.
Partners in Caochangdi, the 798, and beyond will strengthen PhotoSpring’s diverse programming by hosting more than 20 of the festival’s shows.
Weekend Round-upBeijing Weekend Round-up（April 2012）
798 Art District
UCCA: ” The important is not the meat”_Gu Dexin solo exhibition (until May 27)
Boersli Gallery: “The Abstract Paintings 1979 – 2012″ _ Zhang Wei solo exhibition (until May 27)
PIN Gallery: Beautiful violence _ Qin Yufen solo exhibition (until May 20)
March forward, March forward _ Jiang Jie solo exhibition(until May 20)
Faurschou Gallery: Meme lit, reves differents _ Chen Zhen solo exhibition (until June 3) Read the full post »
Yellow Signal: New Media in China (Vancouver, Canada)
Huang Ran (b. 《 愉悦悲剧》拍摄现场剧照 Production Stills from Blithe Tragedy (Courtesy of the artist) 摄影/ Photos: 范欣/ Fa n Xi n
Yellow Signal: New Media in China is a city-wide exhibition of the best contemporary video and new media artwork made by Chinese artists in recent years. The project is initiated by Centre A — Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, with Shengtian Zheng, a Vancouver-based curator and internationally recognized expert on Chinese contemporary art. He is currently the managing editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Read the full post »
The Adventures of the Three Travel Weary Loafers: Wei Dong, Lv Peng and Liang Changsheng at Today Art Museum
| March 24, 2012 |
March 24—April 1 ,2012
Today Art Museum
Beijing
“ Feng Chen San Xian”is an important art group which was very active in China contemporary circle since 1990s.
Because of their respect for Chinese t raditional ar t they joined together to be a group and studied on various western ar t forms. It is not the solo goal to inherit traditional art for them and also they insist that contemporary art should embody classic essence and skillful exquisite factors, which should be reflected in all kinds of art patterns created by them. Furthermore, the group emphasis the delightful feelings felt in creation and take that as the reference in meditation on culture evolution. Read the full post »
(中文) 顾德新：重要的不是肉_尤伦斯当代艺术中心
| March 24, 2012 |
“Gu Dexin: The Important Thing is Not the Meat” traces the full arc of Gu’s solo career, from his amateur paintings in the late 1970s through his climactic final piece of 2009, bringing together nearly 300 works. In doing so, it presents Gu’s work as an alternative history of the development of contemporary art in China: his early paintings toggle readily among the Western styles then being digested, just as his later performative installations foreshadowed larger debates over acceptable forms and materials both inside the Chinese art world and in the nascent international interpretive community around it. Read the full post »
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CONVERSATIONS, EXHIBITIONS
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“Don’t Think Too Much,” solo exhibition by Ko Siu Lan
Paris Beijing Gallery
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What will happen to Caochangdi?
Only a few days before the opening of Caochangdi Photospring, Three Shadows and neighboring galleries had received yet another notice that their buildings were slated for demolition…
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (