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HdM GALLERY 北京空间非常荣幸地推出展览《纽约之夜》，由斯宾塞·斯威尼（Spencer Sweeney）担任策展人。展览围绕斯威尼个人从九十年代末至今在纽约的艺术生涯之旅作为线索展开，由其挑选和征集了来自纽约文化创意团体 17 位著名艺术家的作品。 斯宾塞·斯威尼是纽约本土的一位文化巨头——他是一名拒绝被归类的艺术家，创作常以绘画的形式出现，用彩色的光束表达神秘主义波普题材。但同时他还是一位音乐人，一位 DJ，更曾创立自己的品牌俱乐部。但在过去的二十年里斯威尼所做的事情绝不止于此，他似乎总需要各种公众曝光去解锁自己的全部潜能。他就像一管催化剂，一位推动者，不断活跃在纽约最重要的文化创意团体之中。而《纽约之夜》这个展览，则是这个团体的一次盛典。 此次展览并未遵循某种审美或常规主题，而是以斯威尼在纽约最重要的个人经历作为策展的灵感来源——所有作品都来自于他身边紧密的艺术家朋友和合作者的创作，人与人之间的连接成为了最重要的纽带。 1997 年，斯威尼从费城到纽约定居并成为了一位艺术家。得益于纽约活跃的艺术和创造氛围，他很快便结识了一群对其艺术家生涯产生深远影响的朋友，他们使斯威尼的人生丰富起来——成为了一枚硬币的两面。 接下来，让我们以简短的时间线索来回顾斯威尼是如何创建出这个纽约独一无二的文化团体。 在纽约的早期几年，斯威尼经常进出于纽约伍斯特街（Wooster Street）著名的非营利出版机构 Printed Matter，也是在这里他认识了利兹·布加斯特（Lizzie Bougatsos，在 Master Printed 工作至今）和布莱恩·德格罗（Brian DeGraw）。约 1997-1999 年间，Printed Master 不远处是由 Colin de Land 创立的纽约最有趣的画廊之一 America Fine Arts（简称 AFA），因此斯威尼又结识了 AFA 的代理艺术家或工作人员 如彼得·斯库文斯（Pieter Schoolwerth）、萨迪·洛斯卡（Sadie Laska）及丹尼·麦克唐纳（Danny McDonald）等人。Colin de Land 的妻子 Pat Hearn 是那个时期最标志性的画商之一，在她的引介下，在斯威尼在与 Colin de Land 合作的一个音乐演出中和 伊丽莎白·佩顿（Eliazbeth Peyton）见面相认识。也是在那次，佩顿为斯威尼创作了一幅肖像，这张肖像后来更演绎出许多不同的版本（其中一张会在此次展出）。 Dash Snow 是那时纽约赫赫有名的大玩家，他将斯威尼介绍给了自己当时的妻子阿加特·斯诺 （Agathe […] >> Read more

Tang Contemporary Art is proud to unveil its new Bangkok space. The inaugural exhibition, “Northern Land, Southern Seas,” will bring together the work of more than a dozen contemporary art heavyweights from China and Southeast Asia. “Southern Seas” was China’s name for Southeast Asia in the Ming and Qing dynasties, reflecting a China-centric view of […] >> Read more

To its fans, it is simply STPI., one of the genuine heroines of the East Asia art scene. And yes, though blessed with super powers, it has to fight to be free and, as in so many superhero stories, that often means nervous government people who don’t quite understand how special it is. >> Read more

SINGAPORE—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to announce the appointment of Josef Ng as its Managing Director - Asia. >> Read more

Abstraction is becoming the Western equivalent of the most masturbatory Literati work. Whether we call it “Zombie Formalism” (Walter Robinson) or “MFA-clever“ (Jerry Saltz), we end up bending for beige. >> Read more

A look back at art in Singapore in 2014. >> Read more

Art Basel Miami beach is traditionally seen as the glitzy, snowbird relative of Basel proper, with attendees in significant part accounted for by East-Coasters flying South for the winter, their leisure time and money conspicuous under the glare of the Miami sun. Signs of change are in the air, however, for Miami’s reputation... >> Read more

The concept of “the third world” in the international political system came into being during the Cold War period. >> Read more

The notion of Tiravanija working alongside the Singapore Tyler Print Institute does elicit some sense of fascinated curiosity at what they've produced, particularly under a title like “Time Travelers Chronicle (Doubt): 2014-802,701 A.D.”
 
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Tang Contemporary Art is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by Colin Chinnery, He An, and Zhang Hui entitled Once, from 14 December, 2013 through 5 March, 2014. >> Read more