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Haffendi Annuar and British artist Jesse Wine were announced as joint winners of the inaugural Powerhouse Commission, in London’s famous Battersea Power Station site,

It is too early to decide if I am destroying the tradition of ink painting.
—Zheng Chongbin

for Chen Chun-Hao, his innovation in media, form, and texture through substitution and amalgamation is informed by “unlikeness in likeness; likeness in unlikeness,” so that the visually unexpected sculptural qualities and the optical illusion they render, together achieve a reasoned liberation in his work.

As part of his recent series of paintings, Wang Chuan transcribed this poem encapsulating key tenets of Buddhism (2013 No. 71). As the artist’s chosen text, we can expect it to offer insights into the paintings he created around the same time: it may be a key to understanding the series.

Anyone who knows both me and Zheng Li is aware that we are unabashed admirers of each other’s work.

John Baldessari’s “Ear Sofa; Nose Sconces with Flowers (in Stage Setting)”, 2009/2017, was the best and weirdest thing at Unlimited, including when the model got some dust in her eye

They represent acts of retreat from the world but they are uncertain paradises. Mere escape is not a refuge, and perhaps they doth protest too little.

Memes and power, language and sex, politics and history are all fodder for louche anthropological experiments in Xu Zhen’s first major solo show in France which recently opened at Perrotin in Paris. “Civilization Iteration” develops themes of cultural hybridity (including sexual and evolutionary) first exhibited in the exhibition in 2009 that launched his corporate alter-ego […]