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…
Category: Asia
_Writing about, Asia, Beijing, China, Exhibitions
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…
_Writing about, Asia, Beijing, China, Exhibitions
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…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Gao Weigang “No Way!” + MAP Office “Tracking Baudelaire”
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Shanghai Gallery of Art, 3F,3 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road,Shanghai May 18 – June 30, 2013 Two simultaneous shows at the Shanghai Gallery of Art (S.G.A.): Gao Weigang ( 高伟刚 ) is showing a selection of sculptures and wall decorations, most of them from shiny brass or mirrors. The central and most spectacular piece of the…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Taiwan
Su Yu-Hsien “Hua-shan-qiang”
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蘇育賢<花山牆>, TKG+, Taipei, 04/27/2013 – 06/09/2013 Su’s solo show at TKG+ in Taipei takes on a “Taiwanese” theme of paper houses that are burnt as offering to the deceased. More broadly speaking it is the theme of beliefs and unfulfilled desires that are being projected into the life-after-death. The installation consists of remains of burnt…
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 Asia Art Archive talks: Wang Guanle + Seher Shah + Byron Kim, Linda Lai + Shooshie Sulaiman + Abbas Kiarostami, Vivan Sundaram solo
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As last year during Art Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive organized a series panel talks adding to the fair’s program. Compared to last year, the number of lectures has been reduced I guess this is given the fact that Art ‘Basel’ Hong Kong now introduced their ‘own’ series of talks. I did not have time…
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“I Think It Rains” at 1a Art Space
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1a Art Space, Hong Kong May 17, 2013 – Jun 30, 2013 The “I Think It Rains” group show at the 1a Art Space at the Cattle Depot Artist Village in Hong Kong drew from two sources: On one end, it was a project of the private Burger Collection – a project which I perceive…
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Impressions from Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
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Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, 22 May – 26 May 2013 My first impression was definitely linked to the new name: Is this event taking place in Basel or in Hong Kong? Will the Art Basel fair now be called “Art Basel Basel” to conform to the new naming convention? Below, three deja-vues and…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
“From Gesture to Language” at Rockbund Museum
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April 27 – August 11, 2013, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai The Rockbund museum did not disappoint again and prepared another show worth a visit. This time, the exhibition includes more smaller works and thus may seem fragmented at first sight (on the first floor), but all the fragments come together to form a whole once the…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Shanghai
Entang Wiharso “Crush Me”
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20 May – 28 June 2013, Pearl Lam Fine Art Shanghai I was not familiar with Entang Wiharso’s work before entering this exhibition, so I first and foremost appreciated the show as an introduction to the oeuvre of this well established artist from Indonesia. Wiharso basically works in two modes: One mode of expression is…