Beyond the Conceptual, towards the Essential
“La pittura è cosa mentale”—“Painting is a mental thing”. >> Read more
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Ma Jianfeng
Naturally, we dwell in experience, but for Ma Jianfeng, the reason “the painterly” is insistently discussed is unfounded. >> Read more
Revolution in Tradition :
China’s post-ink painting era
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
More than just a form of artistic expression, ink art and especially ink painting, is a cultural signifier. >> Read more
ARNDT Singapore – Qiu Zhijie, Opening Saturday, 15 November2014, 4 – 6 pm
ARNDT Singapore is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Qiu Zhijie, an internationally acclaimed artist based in Beijing, China. The show will be the artist's first individual appearance at ARNDT Singapore for which he created a new exciting body of work (including a large scale installation). >> Read more
Hiroshi Sugimoto
On show are excerpts from a number of his major series. All are gelatine silver prints born of what Sugimoto calls “the abandoned realm of analog silver” in a slightly immodest preface in which he also aligns his technically anachronistic processes and “infinite monochrome tonalities” with the influence of Song Dynasty masters. >> Read more
True Paradise
Dao Chau Hai’s ‘THINH’
at Manzi Art Space, Hanoi
Dao Chau Hai – a solitary wanderer in the endless exile of the mind, searching for a paradise that does not exist. >> Read more
Lindy Lee at MCA Australia, Sydney
Replicas, postmodernism and ‘bad copies’
Grainy, velvety black photocopies of famous faces – portraits by Jan Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Ingres, Artemisia Gentileschi and others from the western art historical canon – were arranged in rows or grids. They gazed out from behind layers of acrylic paint, or wax that had been partially scraped back. >> Read more
Ashley Bickerton
Seascapes At The End Of History
Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language. >> Read more
Show and Tell: Cao Yu’s Gendered Embodiment
Minimalist, conceptual, and deliberately provocative, Cao’s work reflects upon and exploits the physicality of her materials, from the conventional – marble, stretched linen and canvas – to unexpected, even transgressive, substances including the artist’s own hair, breastmilk and urine, and their various significations. >> Read more
Qiu Shihua: “Empty / Not Empty”
Galerie Urs Meile takes great pleasure to announce the opening of Empty / Not Empty, Qiu Shihua’s (*1940, lives and works in Beijing, Sacramento and Shenzhen) first appearance since his last show seven years ago in our gallery in Lucerne. >> Read more
