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Chambers Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening on September 17 of Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin II. Cui Fei was born in 1970 in Jinan, Shandong Province. >> Read more

It seems a clue is provided in another video work, "Mars" (2016). In it, rootless sand dunes being moved by the wind are even, indifferent, and desolate. >> Read more

Artists: A Bai, Dong Bingfeng, Fu Duo, Gao Wei, A Boy in Thirsty, Ma Zhongren, Malignant Tumor in the End of Days, Bad Temper Commune, Dead Pills, Xiao Han, Zhao Guoxin >> Read more

As such, the progress of Wang Jianwei’s work is not a development in the conventional sense; neither it is it a sequence of repetition. More accurately, it is a system of mutually reinforcing extensions of art propositions and their variations... >> Read more

Huang Yong Ping, the most prominent member of "Xiamen Dada", was one of the key artists to have emerged in 1980s China. Here the art historian and director of MAXXI Rome, Hou Hanru, spoke about “Baton Serpent”, a major survey of Huang Yong Ping in Italy... >> Read more

Jia 嘉 is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. She was born in Beijing where she studied architecture, performance and literature. Jia reflects on her development as an artist, the problems of translating artistic practice between differing social and cultural contexts and the intended critical significance of her work... >> Read more

Made in a deep, two-year immersion into spiritual sites and spaces in Dhaka, this ambitious body of works explores the processes, materials, and theologies of spiritual practice in a formalist yet rhythmic accumulation of imagery, sounds and meanings. >> Read more

Mao Xuhui’s Parent brings with it the memory of this earlier moral order while it comments on recent politics. It is undisputable that the toppled Parent will continue to determine the locus of reference for the human world, but the aesthetics of the toppled monument points to a different order of beauty. >> Read more

Shi Jinsong’s work is also closely tied to a traditional Chinese aesthetic and philosophy—these words are easy to write but so often used as to be almost meaningless. Shi Jinsong engages in the invention of mythologies of things as ideals...which is to say that invention and transformation are not corruptions of an ideal but rather its embodiment... >> Read more

Just as the news reports on art, art also mediatizes our lives. For a certain segment of contemporary artists, the controversy over GMOs presents a rare opportunity to continue their long and antagonistic opposition to the State. >> Read more