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He taps into a common sense of isolation which surpasses the boundaries of nations, culture, language, and ethnicity. The artist creates a window into the current state of Chinese society, and in some ways even affirms many Western preconceptions about China. >> Read more

Thomas Ruff’s virtual darkroom might be seen as a type of Platonic cave too. For Ruff, a photograph – as opposed to a mere print, like a monotype – must exist twice. For instance, at least one negative and one print. There must be multiples. >> Read more

Several Shades of Grey Weather (Chapters 1 to 5 have been lost in the cellar at randian headquarters except for the following fragment). Undoubtedly what strikes me most at the fair are the VIP toilets which are divided by panels in six groups of three — I guess to allow private diuretic parties. They are […] >> Read more

Artissima can very much be compared to the culinary delicacies and the eating habits of Torino and its province, the Piemont, famous for its truffles and the Slow Food movement. The attitude of the fair is also slow in the sense that the art presented is far from being fast consumable "bling-bling" art >> Read more

What is really interesting about art is how, with a piece of meat painted by Rembrandt in the 17th century and then painted by me now, the subject matter hasn’t changed, only how you look at it.
 
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Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong is pleased to announce that renowned international curator Hervé Mikaeloff has organized a dynamic group show featuring a selection of Eastern and Western contemporary artists exploring notions of language. >> Read more

Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai. March 20 to May 3, 2011 Liu Wei’s ‘Trilogy’ at Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Part II — Read Part I of this review here  The Gothic flying buttresses seem to have developed, at least partly, out of two series of work: Liu Wei’s composition of recycled windows and doors, “The Outcast,” (2007; also previously shown […] >> Read more

First delivered at the conference 'China' on Display-Past and Present Practices of Selecting, Exhibiting and Viewing Chinese Visual and Material Culture, at Leiden, The Netherlands, December 6-8, 2007. >> Read more

Everyday objects in the work of the artist Zhang Enli. >> Read more