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In Slapstick, Todd Bienvenu’s new show at Almine Rech, comedy springs from the physical world failing human ambition. His scenes teem with raucous energy, feeding off the kind of ugly emotions usually swept under the carpet by art world good manners. Humiliation, embarrassment and loss crash-land into his canvases like uninvited guests. Bienvenu’s eye is compulsively […] >> Read more

In Slapstick, Todd Bienvenu’s new show at Almine Rech, comedy springs from the physical world failing human ambition. His scenes teem with raucous energy, feeding off the kind of ugly emotions usually swept under the carpet by art world good manners. Humiliation, embarrassment and loss crash-land into his canvases like uninvited guests. >> Read more

Exhibitions of Chinese art outside China tend to confirm certain assumptions about the country's history, culture, politics, and people. At first, ‘XU ZHEN®: Eternity Vs Evolution’ at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, seems no exception to this rule, promising viewers a proven combination of two enduring preconceptions about China’s past and present. >> Read more

Werner Büttner, Wild Painter in Germany who changed the 1980s. >> Read more

Lu Yang’s ‘debut’ and Chen Tianzhou’s ‘Backstage Boys’ at BANK stimulate the senses to the point of overload. The gallery is a kitsch carnival where, for instance, the rock star Marilyn Manson is depicted as an ‘enchanting, vicious snake demon’ who resists the fiery attack launched by the Cabalesh Brothers >> Read more

Artist is like a train that goes in the opposite direction, going astray at his/her own will, which inevitably crushes fiercely into the source of information. Dazzled in eyes and sees a figurative “person”, or a blurry illegible “even”, or a time slapped into the face because synchronicity, or a place with nobody during a […] >> Read more

If but for a moment the inevitable fate of a point in time, or our perception of a thing, was seen, held. ‘one second ago’, a group exhibition at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, evokes that tittering sense of balance regards a state of existence or actuality, whether represented by assemblages of the quotidian or […] >> Read more

It is a curious historical fact that such a small and distant country as Switzerland has had such a profound impact on the development of art in China, especially at this moment of China’s greatest economic and cultural transformation. >> Read more

Kukje Gallery is thrilled to present wellknown unknown, an engaging group exhibition of seven critically acclaimed emerging artists/teams whose work displays a rich imagination and experimental attitude, and whose practices cover a wide range of genres in contemporary art. >> Read more

Galerie Perrotin Hong Kong is pleased to present “Gelatin Gelitin Gelintin”, a mega-mini-retrospective of Gelitin. >> Read more