randian | 燃点

For this exhibition, Guo Xi takes audience on a Grand Voyage with “Seventh Prophecy”. It all began with an advertisement released in February of 2015: “Is eyesight a kind of light?” “Eyesight isn’t light, but it can be projected.” “We should release the prophecy as a classified ad in the newspaper, so it could be […] >> Read more

Perrotin, Hong Kong is pleased to present the premiere solo exhibition dedicated to artist gimhongsok in Hong Kong. Showcasing eleven artworks, >> Read more

This I was thinking at the opening of Jake & Dinos Chapman's first show at Blain Southern as the schmoozers and the boozers sashayed around the suicide vests. If this had been Afghanistan or Iraq or Sudan, you'd all be dead. >> Read more

Art has no equivalent of the Skyscraper Index, the notion that record-breaking towers tend to be built, hubristically, just prior to an economic crisis. The top end of the art world seems to ignore crises altogether (at least the part that doesn’t invest in tall buildings). Inflationary tendencies are observable in the art world, though, in uppity auction prices, the spread of private museums and art storage facilities and, seemingly, in art itself, no doubt partly to fill all the cavernous museums being built. >> Read more

Fosun Foundation Shanghai is proud to present Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer and Chinese artist Qiu Anxiong in two solo exhibitions occupying the center’s second and third floor galleries. >> Read more

The smile is a cliché of contemporary art in China. Apparently, anyway. >> Read more

Anyone who knows both me and Zheng Li is aware that we are unabashed admirers of each other’s work. >> Read more

A prejudice I wasn’t able to overcome: I find the title of the Biennale unbearable. It literally translates as “Go Art Go” (okay, also “Long Live Art”, but still). >> Read more

Perrotin Paris is proud to present “Purple Cloud”, Zach Harris’s debut exhibition outside the United States and his first with the gallery. Harris’s practice synthesizes many art-historical references and is highly inspired by European pictorial tradition, making the presentation of his work in France particularly significant. Harris’ work is included in several public collections, including […] >> Read more

Since opening ShanghART in the lobby of a hotel in Shanghai in 1996, Lorenz has been friend and mentor to scores of artists, including Ding Yi, Zeng Fanzhi, Yu Youhan, Zhao Bandi, Xu Zhen, and Birdhead, among many others. Sardonic and understated, Helbling’s Swiss roots are routinely noted but as Zhou Tiehai comments, “Lorenz has long been one of us”. >> Read more