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This roughness and danger are precisely some of the most important ideas in He An’s oeuvre, since in an ever more regulated art world, his work brings for the observer an experience and imagination of danger recalling the first postures of the avant-garde—if only in the sense of an “homage”. >> Read more

Credit must be given to the Met, as the exhibition’s wide selection of works allows many unfamiliar Chinese names exposure on an institutional level in the West. Nonetheless, this raises a side issue as well—some of the works exhibited have little relevance to the themes they serve and thus the exhibition sometimes wanders off topic. >> Read more

memeFor the latest installation at Offsite, the Gallery's outdoor exhibition space on West Georgia at Thurlow Street, MadeIn Company creates a fiction that uses subtlety and mistaken identity to prompt passers-by to reconsider their perceptions. At first appearing to be debris from a demolition or recent disaster, Calm is an installation that breathes life and ambiguity into a pile of bricks. >> Read more

Despite the extraordinary range of works presented, "Great Performances" feels like an opportunity missed. >> Read more

It is not what you do, but how you do it that makes it either a good deed or good art. In the case of “About the War in Northern Myanmar”, Zhang Yue and Bao Xiaowei succeeded in both, making this the most memorable show in Beijing in 2015. >> Read more