Kukje Gallery, Seoul, http://www.kukjegallery.com November – December 2012 Yuko Shiraishi is primarily and abstract painter and paintings is what is primarily on display. Paintings are usually in one background color, combined with thin stripes or small dots. The dots or stripes make them look a bit like linen or cloth designs. The gallery’s materials say:…
Artsonje Center, Seoul, http://artsonje.org/eng/ November 2012 – January 2013 Shinro Ohtake is a Japanese artist working in collage, drawing and installation; he is also known for his involvement in the Japan noise music scene. The show at Artsonje spread over two floors.
In December, I visited South Korea and had a look at what is happening there in terms of Fine Arts. I checked out some smaller privately managed spaces around Seoul like Artsonje Center, Kukje Gallery and Plateau as well as some public institutions like the Nam Seoul Museum of Fine Art and the National Museum…
I would like to follow up on my previous writings on the Shanghai Biennale 2012 and raumlaborberlin’s presentation in Shanghai in July 2012. One of the new approaches employed by the Biennale was the establishment of ‘city pavilions’. Raumlaborberlin, a German concept-architecture studio, has been in charge of the Berlin city pavilion.
楊福東: 断章取义 Sep 30 -Jan 3 2013, OCT Suhe Creek ShanghaiOCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT),Shanghai OCAT Shanghai presented a retrospective of Yang Fudong’s works from the 1990’s and early 2000’s. The exhibition was not too large in scale (just one bigger hall separated by a wall in the middle), but it had a good selection…
Shanghai Biennale 2012 第九届上海双年展 / Reactivation 重新发电 Curator: Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 / October 2012 – March 2013 Well, the Shanghai Biennale 2012 has been quite a disaster this year, but I feel that all the complaining has been already done by other parties. I almost feel sorry for Qiu Zhijie, the chief curator… Can he…
Taipei Biennial 2012 台北雙年展2012 / Death and Life of Fiction 想像的死而復生 Curator: Anselm Franke / September 2012 – January 2013 The Taipei Biennial is heavy in meaning. It is almost like entering someone’s brain, or like opening a large encyclopedia of everything. The central topic is history. What is a document and what is fiction? When…
Time Traveller 时光旅行者: Huang Yongping 黄永砅, Liu Jianhua 刘建华, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu 孙原&彭禹, Yan Lei 颜磊, Curator: Ella Liao 廖薇 RockbundArt Museum,20 Huqiu Rd,Shanghai / September 20 –December 9, 2012 Rockbund Art Museum likes to show work that is large and spectacular, yet simple and direct at the same time. The latest show…
Feng Mengbo 冯梦波: My Private Museum 私人博物馆 Shanghai Gallery of Art, 3F,3 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road,Shanghai September 4 -October 25, 2012 Feng Mengbo went on a tour to the Shanghai Natural History Museum, and took some photos of its display. Now we can see the photos which Feng took on display at the Shanghai Gallery…
Fictional Recoveries 虚构的复得: Li Ming 李明, Ng Joon Kiat, Shang Yixin 尚一心, Wang Zhibo 王之博, Morgan Wong Curated by David Ho Yeung Chan Pear Lam Galleries,181 Middle Jiangxi Road,Shanghai 9 September –20 October, 2012 Five young artists from the Greater China region are on display. Each artist has a designated space for his works, and…