王兴伟个展 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing May 19 – August 18, 2013 Wang Xingwei is a difficult case. He is very good at the technique of painting. He uses this skill to evade any definitions. Appropriating, copying and mashing up styles is his style: Thomas Kinkade hangs next to Caspar David…
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Teppei Kaneuji “Towering Something”
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金氏彻平:卓之物 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing June 28 – August 25, 2013 Teppei Kaneuji works with everyday objects like plastic buckets, cheap toys, stickers, etc. In the central room, random arrangements of everyday objects on tables were covered by a white layer of material which could have been flour, sugar or…
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Hsieh Tehching “One Year Performance 1980-1981”
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谢德庆:一年行为表演1980-1981 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing June 28 – August 25, 2013 Hsieh’s One Year Performances are already became part of contemporary art’s history. During the 1980-1981 performance, Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour for one year. It is the tension between even imagining doing something like…