“Histories and Individual Practices of Contemporary Ink Art” is a public symposium that explores the discourse of ink art in artistic experimentation from the ’85 Art New Wave period to the present. Featuring presentations by leading scholar and curator, Martina Kӧppel-Yang; artists Yang Jiechang and Qiu Zhijie; and moderated by Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator […] >> Read more
The recent sculptures nuns + monks by Ugo Rondinone take their rightful place in the continuity of a narrative introduced by the artist thirty-two years ago. A narrative composed of chapters that would never cease to interact with one another throughout a trajectory made up of intertextual questions, back-and-forths, survivals, displacements and reinventions of shapes and attitudes, or of interrogations that are constantly being renegotiated. >> Read more
Tianjin, just half an hour by train from Beijing, is said to be the most inconspicuous of China’s municipalities. This is perhaps surprising, given the fact that it is the first city in Northern China to be exposed to modern culture, experiencing a glamorous era in the period following 1860 when it became a treaty port. Tianjin is the epitome of modernity with “Chinese characteristics”. >> Read more
Before I catch my connecting flight back to Rome, I briefly note down my impression of Art Taipei. “It’s both very young, with the insecurities and optimism of an adolescent, and very old, with the relaxed attitude of someone who has seen a lot and is a pinch senile”. >> Read more
HdM GALLERY London presents Eternal Landscape a solo show by leading Chinese, multimedia artist Yang Yongliang. It will be his first major collaboration with HdM GALLERY and his first solo exhibition in London. >> Read more