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For someone like Ai, how could it be different? His fate—personally, artistically and politically—hinges between all these different worlds. To him this doesn’t appear as a dichotomy; rather, he sees it as “self-expression”, with the self already being a reflective maneuver...
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Reflecting on Wang Jian's extensive body of work and research material this exhibition brings together photography, works on paper and large-scale oil paintings to interrogate the origins of Wang Jian's explorations in metaphysics, Chinese Maximalism (after Gao Minglu) and international minimalism. >> Read more

These endless intersections of lines articulate the positive and negative space in a dense plot of plans, surfaces and patterns in which the liveliness of ink is limited but not constrained. >> Read more

If man is the trifecta of soul, mind, and body, then “Three Projects about Time and Life” happen to correspond perfectly with these three types of presence. >> Read more

Rivers, trees, bubbles and meteorites are the elements found often in HUANG Yuxing’s paintings for the recent five years... >> Read more

“Words kill,” says Mit Jai Inn. A widely respected and hugely influential yet seldom exhibited senior Thai artist, he is startlingly articulate when discussing such diverse topics as transcendental meditation or party-political impasses. >> Read more

 
It was difficult, at times, to keep track of everything on offer; particularly chaotic was the China Focus section which, despite the amount of hoopla that surrounded it in the run up to the fair, was squeezed into a small back section.
 
 
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He taps into a common sense of isolation which surpasses the boundaries of nations, culture, language, and ethnicity. The artist creates a window into the current state of Chinese society, and in some ways even affirms many Western preconceptions about China. >> Read more

With money and space, the Long Museum has potential, but do they have the curatorial chops to turn a building into a museum? Despite a less-than-mind-blowing first show, it's nonetheless a good place to see a very extensive collection of Chinese art. >> Read more