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"Wondering Clouds" begins with six powerful triptychs in the first room. Each centers on one person, who appears twice. The resultant works are a strange and compelling mixture of banality and embellishment. The second space comes as something of a shock. >> Read more

This edition of the triennial showcases the expanded field of not only fiber art, but more importantly the international reach of contemporary art in Hangzhou, which seems to be still basking in the afterglow of global G20 summit. >> Read more

Jumping and whooping, men swept by in costumes covered in fabric petals, their bodies thawed into fluttering colors. It took Andy a moment to realize that their swollen, red features and black, hollowed eyes belonged to wooden masks. >> Read more

Any set of random numbers that are deprived of their contexts are imbued with meanings. >> Read more

As Groys notes in the opening passage of his essay, “On the New”, “We experience art history first of all as represented in our museums.” One might add, to be glib with Marx—and why not? —, secondly as farce. >> Read more

for Chen Chun-Hao, his innovation in media, form, and texture through substitution and amalgamation is informed by “unlikeness in likeness; likeness in unlikeness,” so that the visually unexpected sculptural qualities and the optical illusion they render, together achieve a reasoned liberation in his work. >> Read more

Ding Yi’s paintings refuse to answer, to limit or be limited. Whether small or vast, their multi-hued fields of crosses map and divide pictorial space, transparent and unguarded, beguiling with pattern. But this is no panacea for interpretation, for anything-goes opinion. Look closely at each painting and you can become familiar with them, with the individual character of the multitude of marks that compose their seeming and actual similarity, the repetitions, threads and permutations, and yet still not know them >> Read more

The fastest, the highest, the strongest are the superlatives that came to describe the pace of development in modern China since the opening reforms. >> Read more

Art Basel in Hong Kong's widely acclaimed Encounters sector – a unique platform dedicated to presenting large-scale sculptural installations that transcend the traditional art fair booth …… >> Read more

In the new body of paintings by Mairead O’hEocha, Blackbirds in the Garden of Prisms2, or as Wallace Stevens determined, suggesting a contribution to something greater than its singular self >> Read more