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Pace London is pleased to present Liang Yuanwei’s first solo exhibition with the gal- lery at 6-10 Lexington Street from 21 March to 26 April 2014. The Tension between a Bow and an Elephant will include eleven of Liang Yuanwei’s recent oil paintings that deepen both her formal and conceptual investigations of process and perception. >> Read more

A total of eleven China and Hong Kong-based galleries will attend Art 14—the same number as for Art 13, though certain names have come and gone.
 
 
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Multiple layers of paint have been sprayed over a regular square stencil to create intense patterns. The works on show at Beijing Commune now—the artist’s first appearance there and his first exhibition of a number of these paintings—present an unwavering purpose and hours of systematic input. >> Read more

The inaugural edition of the ART021 art fair is due to open next week in Shanghai. Founded by Bao Yifeng, a prominent PR honcho and Ying Qinglan, the founder of Aether Space in Beijing, the fair is slated to take place within the Rockbund complex on the Bund... >> Read more

Beijing Commune is proud to announce the exhibition “Shang Yixin” opening on November 19th, 2013. The show is young artist Shang Yixin’s first solo exhibition at Beijing Commune. The exhibition will continue until January 4th, 2014. >> Read more

eijing Commune is proud to announce the opening of artist Qiu Xiaofei’s exhibition Rauschenberg Said, “The Walking Stick Is Longer than the Maulstick, After All.” >> Read more

As most members of the art scene are aware, Ma Qiusha’s career was born through pain: in the piece “From No.4 Pingyuanli to No.4 Tianqiaobeilim” the camera records her as she removes a bloody razor blade from her mouth after she finishes narrating her experiences. In the current exhibition, however, blood takes on a symbolic form... >> Read more

An introductory word on Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, with a run-down of select booths to look out for at the fair.
 
 
 
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“The attention should never be on the paintings themselves, which I deliberately repeat in different series to deconstruct their visual power, but the concept behind the forms. I am interested in the way we look at exhibitions and how our pre-existing knowledge, whether cultural, religious or political, affects our perception of art. >> Read more

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... >> Read more