Hong Kong, Pedder Building, 22 March – 3 May 2018, www.hanart.com This was a very refreshing show amongst the poshness of the Pedder Building, where most galleries decided to hang individual large size products in respectable distance from each other on the freshly painted gallery walls. Hanart TZ was also freshly painted, no question about…
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_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Pearl Lam: Arcangelo Sassolino „Warped Matter Curved Time“
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Hong Kong, H Queens, March 27 – 8 May, 2018, https://www.pearllam.com The second, new, space of Pearl Lam in Hong Kong, in the newly opened H Queens building showing Arcangelo Sassolino’s works was both complementary and consistent with the other existing Pearl Lam location is in the Pedder Building, showing abstract painter Huang Yanqing. The…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Pace: Yoshitomo Nara “Ceramic Works and …”
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Hong Kong, H Queens, March 27 – May 12, 2018, https://www.pacegallery.com Yoshitomo Nara is well known for his comics-like drawings and paintings of a lonely sad girl/boy, but popular demand seems to have pushed him into sculpture now. The exhibition features some paintings and sketches, in order to provide some context, but most of the…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Pearl Lam: Huang Yanqing 黄渊青 “Motives of Lines 触发”
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Hong Kong, Pedder Building 6/F, 27 March – 11 May, 2018, https://www.pearllam.com The fixed layout of the gallery walls gave me a familiar feeing: The reception with the glass wall, the longer corridor behind the reception corner, and then the two less busy “contemplative” side rooms left and right, one of them ending at the…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Suwon iPark Museum of Art “The Architecture of Structure” + “Not Allowed to Ban”
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_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Art Space Pool “Today, Nobody Was There”
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Seoul, March 23 – April 29, 2018, http://www.altpool.org A group show, with a Korean-only introduction – I have heard it was “about” the communication between artist and audience. Artworks by Hyewon Kwon권혜원, Seulki Ki/Yuna Park기슬기ㆍ박은하, Enae Lee이이내, Lim Sodam임소담and Juwon Jeong정주원were on display. Curated by MijungKim김미정.
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Italy, Seoul, South Korea, Venice
Arko Art Center: Cody Choi & Lee Wan “Counterbalance: The Stone and the Mountain” (Korean Pavilion Biennale Arte Venice 2017)
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Seoul, March 20 – May 20, 2018, http://www.arko.or.kr Last year’s Venice Biennale Korea pavilion came back “home” and is on display at Arko. The package on show is a well-balanced combination of old and new, Korean and international, conceptual and pop, etc. There is almost everything, and the variety that the two artists managed to…
_Writing about, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Ilmin Musem of Art “IMA Picks” (Ayoung Kim, Lee Moon Joo, Jung Yoonsuk)
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Seoul, February 23 – April 29, 2018, http://ilmin.org The three floors of Ilmin museum contained three mini-solo-shows by three successful mid-career Korean artists. On 1F Ayoung Kim김아영 presents Porosity Valley. The centerpiece of the show was a large projection with a short film utilizing post-internet aesthetics, reminding me of Lawrence Lek’s Sinofuturism or Christopher Kulendran…
_Writing about, Berlin, Europe, Germany, Lecture/Performance/Event
transmediale: Jonathan Beller, Baruch Gottlieb, Katerina Krtilova, Ewa Majewska “Confronting Social Cybernetics”
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Berlin, Feb 4, 2018, https://transmediale.de This was the concluding panel of transmediale. I was expecting some references to Norbert Wiener and Roy Ascott. Instead panelists stubbornly kept invoking Marshall McLuhan and Friedrich Kittler. Of course not only. I found Eva Majewska’s introduction of the concept of counterpublics at least interesting (a social group delimiting itself…
_Writing about, Berlin, Europe, Germany, Lecture/Performance/Event
transmediale: Stefan Heidenreich & Rachel O’Dwyer “Stop Making Money: Valuation and Non-Monetary Utopias”
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Berlin, 12:30, Feb 04, 2018, https://transmediale.de A freeform conversation between Heidenreich (art theory lecturer) and O’Dwyer (digital/blockchain researcher). Heidenreich’s main thesis was to abolish money and think about other forms of “matching” supply and demand. Nevertheless in his examples he kept falling back on some systems of ranking and recording that again used numeric form,…