randian | 燃点

If someone were to describe simply these paintings by Han Jianyu, the listener’s first thought would not be of politics. Deep banks of invariant blue-green trees fill the frame or meet crisply with a high, pale horizon tinted with an iridescence that could have been extracted from the foliage.

Here, the idea of a “Climate Theatre” as imagined by the British psychologist/mathematician/ meteorologist/physicist Lewis Frye Richardson in 1922 (“Weather Prediction by Numerical Process”) is newly applied to the Caochangdi art district, its contemporary context and dissemination, by the artist Shi Qing.

A glance at the group photography show by French students of the Arles school, at 798 Space.

Until May 31st 2013, Metropolitan by COMO, Bangkok, will host an exhibition of leading Chinese art and fashion photographer, Chen Man’s “Bad Head” series, at the hotel’s Met Bar. Six exclusive prints will also be on display in the hotel’s Penthouse Suite. Chen Man’s feminine aesthetic of psychological power and strange beauty is frequently commissioned […]

A glance at Art Beijing 2013, with selected art work highlights.

Amy Li Gallery — the new, eponymous incarnation of Dialogue Space — opened this week in foreseeable style. It has upped sticks from the Pingod development in Beijing’s CBD (where it lurked behind Today Art Museum) to a wave-walled grey brick block in Caochangdi…

The current exhibition at Pekin Fine Arts asks “Why Paint?”, and proceeds to show us several different approaches to the question. Without getting too existential, we can say that the “why” of art making – as everything, perhaps – is bound also to its “what” and “how.” There is no strict realism here…