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As most members of the art scene are aware, Ma Qiusha’s career was born through pain: in the piece “From No.4 Pingyuanli to No.4 Tianqiaobeilim” the camera records her as she removes a bloody razor blade from her mouth after she finishes narrating her experiences. In the current exhibition, however, blood takes on a symbolic form... >> Read more

Maxim Gorky: “Most writers have had a painful childhood, but very few people are willing to experience such a childhood for the sake of becoming a writer.”
 
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The classic quote by Karl Marx goes: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Such satire is not only appropriate in reference to Napoleon and his nephew, Napoleon III... >> Read more

Berlinde de Bruyckere’s sculpture seems to create its own level. The artist for an earlier exhibition (“We are all Flesh” at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art last year) explained imagining the high-ceilinged space like a church, a sensation undiminished in the chancel-like cavity of Galleria Continua in Beijing.... >> Read more

(中文) 由上海市长宁区特殊教育指导中心、上海多伦美术馆、国家美术杂志等单位共同举办的“艺术点燃生命”特殊青少年与艺术家在一起系列展的最后一站，将于2013年3月5日至3月11日在上海多伦现代美术馆举行。 >> Read more