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Interviews, 2018.02.02 Fri, by

Katharina Grosse and the ghost-eating-mud at K11 Foundation, Shanghai

Katharina Grosse is one of the leading artists working in the area of Expanded Painting, a field, in every sense, that encompasses extremely divergent practices, yet which always share an interest in the physical fundamentals of painting and paint – hue, light, material, surface, production – to explore directly the nature of painting itself and the ways people experience it. >> Read more

Interviews, 2013.04.26 Fri, by

Chi K11 Art Space SH

Shopping centre and art exhibition on Huaihai Lu, in Shanghai. Justly branded as an ‘art mall,’ this Hong Kong import displays local artists’ work at every turn. Even the architecture is creative, with an entrance that takes patrons into a glass dome suspended by tree sculptures and below ground. >> Read more

Interviews, 2019.01.08 Tue, by

Tao Hui
Rhythm and Senses
Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong

How we live and relate to each other in light of increased digitisation is at the core of ‘Rhythm and Senses’, the first solo exhibition of Tao Hui (b. 1987, Chongqing) at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong. >> Read more

Interviews, 2017.04.07 Fri, by

Vertical Gardens, Antenna Space

The vertical garden, or ‘green wall,’ was developed in order to maximize the use of available surfaces in congested urban spaces. Although it is a mutant practice, it takes its cue from various ancient farming traditions, ranging from Babylon to Pompeii, with the first modern iteration introduced in Paris around 1985. While not popularized until […] >> Read more

Interviews, 2017.02.16 Thu, by

“Trayastrimsa”—or, Chicken with Chillies

Dissecting the piece as a whole, I found no link between these images, which constituted an anything-goes pile-up of various symbols: Tantric Buddhism, Taoism, body politics, the larger narrative of human civilization, reincarnation, redemption, self-examination, revelation, purgatory, Hieronymus Bosch’s “Ship of Fools” and “The Seven Deadly Sins”. . . >> Read more

Interviews, 2016.10.28 Fri, by