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Tang Yongxiang’s paintings emerge from a process of concealment: the artist’s process attempts to abandon vestiges of individual experience and society’s backdrop by obscuring judgment and ideology, whilst also reorganizing and liberating fragments of images. >> Read more

What is the effect when an exhibition is recommended? Of course, it depends on the source: if one values their judgement, expectations are lighted — a will to like it, even, conscious or unconscious. If not — and before one has even seen it — a flat feeling might develop around the show in question... >> Read more

Chris Moore catches up with artist Wu Junyong to see what he is up to recently.
 
 
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Press Release - “Circus,” a monumental installation composed of a massive wooden hand hovering over a bamboo enclosure, orchestrating a puppet show before fifteen headless animals. >> Read more

Its profile may be lower than other galleries in 798, but Space Station should by now have a reputation for strong and inventively installed exhibitions by emerging artists. The latest of these was Hou Yong, a painter born in 1976 in Beijing, whose solo outings to date have been aqueous in theme. A long-running series called Black from circa 2006–2008 shows figures swimming in glossy, dark water. >> Read more

Tang Yongxiang, an artist from Hubei, was initially akin to other painters like Shi Chong and Xu Wentao, and had a high regard for realist techniques. >> Read more

Amidst the proliferation of private art museums in Shanghai and around China, smaller collector spaces are also opening with more modest but also more focused ambitions. Influential Shanghai collectors, Andrew and Lingling Ruff, opened 166 Art Space in late 2017. Its third show, curated by Josef Ng, opens this month. Ran Dian: Andrew, what brought […] >> Read more

ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present group exhibition Physical Theatre at 1F, ShanghART Westbund from August 9 until September 10 with 12 artists’ photography works. Physical Theatre, taking “physical body” as the starting point, intends to reveal the close relations between the individuals and the reality on the basis of artists’ perspectives as well as […] >> Read more

Emerging after the Cultural Revolution, Chinese contemporary photography has more than forty years of history. This exhibition is divided into four sections: “The Rise of Unofficial Photography (1976–1979)”, “New Wave Photography (1980-1989)”, “Experimental Photography (1990-2006)”, and “The Development of Experimental Photography Organizations (2007-present) ” >> Read more

For a long time ShanghART’s home was the M50 art district, on the banks of Suzhou Creek, a much smaller version of Beijing’s Dashanzi 798. Galleries at M50 would come and go but ShanghART’s presence, along with the mostly local artists it represented—including Ding Yi, Zhang Enli and Xu Zhen—remained constant. >> Read more