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in abstraction, I find that people try to explain what you cannot explain. Come on, it’s only a painting, you know! >> Read more

It’s a natural and useful process. As the career of an artist becomes consolidated, his work is subject to a discourse that facilitates knowledge of the same and determines its popularity. >> Read more

I am not going to tell you the truth anymore. It would take too long and maybe it will change anyway. As Dr Yu Tsun comments “Having read various interviews and articles on Zheng, I have some idea ... but no one has really got to grips with why he is an artist.” >> Read more

Randian's resident Italian takes on the Venice Biennale opening week.
 
 
 
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For the MPA-B Month of Performance Art Berlin 2015, MOMENTUM reprises its month-long program of Performance Sundays entitled WORKS ON PAPER. WORKS ON PAPER III inverts classic assumptions of paper as a medium, inviting performance artists to approach paper not as a static blank canvas, but as a dynamic source of conceptual and performative possibility. >> Read more

Gavin Turk was one of the defining artists of the provocative, harum-scarum 1990s London scene, dubbed the YBAs (Young British Artists). randian recently spoke with Turk following the opening of his first exhibition in China. >> 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

Han Sai Por is a Singaporean artist born in 1943. Having studied abroad, she returned to Singapore in 1983, and has since become an internationally-acclaimed artist—particularly for her stone sculptures based on natural forms.
 
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When you next stop in your tracks before the effect of a flash bulb coming off a world-famous painting (reproduction),It’s in these moments that is seems entirely possible that Xu Zhen has had these “aha moments” set in his sights all along.
 
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“Cycling through the years, Hsiao-Ying has always been the mainstream’s satirical shadow.” In Taiwan, Ying Wei-Min （a.k.a. Hsiao Ying) has been a popular figure since he founded the Clippers Band in 1995. >> Read more