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One might not expect to like this first solo show by Liu Shiyuan, but the temptation is to swallow it whole in all its strange, floral glory. It is at once a spare and ample arrangement across two rooms — installations involving bright images of flowers, fruit, jewellery... >> Read more

THE EDGE OF VISION, OR THE EDGE OF THE EARTH is Liu Shiyuan’s first solo exhibition presented by WHITE SPACE BEIJING, showcases the representative photography installations and videos from her artistic practice over the past two years. >> Read more

On the occasion of YANG Jiechang’s 60th birthday, a solo exhibition entitled On Earth as in Heaven takes place at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger (Paris) presenting around 20 works by the artist, from different creative periods, as dense in content as they are in expression. Yang Jiechang was born in 1956 in Foshan in southern […] >> Read more

The exhibition showcases an installation of photographic and video works bringing life to Impressionist paintings and questioning the perception of landscape in the contemporary context of digital modes of representation. >> Read more

Artist Liu Shiyuan talks about concepts of beauty, the dark humour in her work and a new series which focuses on formless forms such as tofu.
 
 
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Angela Bulloch – ‘It's a feast for the mind because their appearance changes, so you're constantly doing adjustments with your eyes. Your eyes are trying to find the similarities, the differences, the irregularities. It’s like scratching an itchy place in the mind.’ >> Read more

Grainy, velvety black photocopies of famous faces – portraits by Jan Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Ingres, Artemisia Gentileschi and others from the western art historical canon – were arranged in rows or grids. They gazed out from behind layers of acrylic paint, or wax that had been partially scraped back. >> Read more

Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language. >> 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

Echoes of the transgressive works of the early 2000s resound in the ceramics practice of Liu Xi (b.1986, Zibo, Shandong). Liu’s frank exploration of gender and sexuality is courageous. >> Read more