First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. The He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen recently opened an exhibition of young artists from across greater China curated by Feng Boyi, predictably including the typical handful of interesting work set against an extensive set of mediocre and over-traveled pieces. But the most interesting dialogues took [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Moving Sideways Tang Contemporary Art Basement, Hollywood Center, 233, Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China March 10, 2010 – April 2, 2010 With well over a decade of experience with artistic and architectural research in south China, MAP Office continues to probe the social ecologies [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Antenna ShanghART H-space 50 Moganshan Rd., Bldg 18, 200060 Shanghai, China March 21, 2010 – April 20, 2010 The latest aspiring painter to be given a chance at entry into the eastern Chinese canon with a solo exhibition at ShanghART is Liu Weijian, whose show “Antenna” [...]
First published in Hong Kong Gallery Guide, April issue. I commented previously that Hong Kong-based Portuguese artist João Vasco Paiva’s recent solo exhibition Experiments on the Notation of Shapes represented something of a point of negotiation between new media art and the contemporary art world proper, accomplishing this by leaning primarily on the concept of [...]
First published on Artforum.com Critics Picks. Text by Robin Peckham. 02.27.10-04.11.10 James Cohan Gallery Shanghai 上海科恩画廊 Very rarely does an exhibition that consists solely of video art succeed in convincing its audience to sit through each and every piece on display. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” however, does just that and works its magic through an allegorical [...]
First published in ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Biography Osage Kwun Tong 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China January 23, 2010 – March 14, 2010 As is the norm for the never-ending parade of sprawling group shows at Osage Gallery, the curatorial mandate for the latest exhibition, Biography, is itself [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. On a residential alley just steps down the hill from Hong Kong’s bustling Hollywood Road, the heart of the city’s gallery scene, sits the latest incarnation of Club 71. Consisting of a few plastic tables and stools outside complementing a bar indoors, this may be the [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Experiments on the Notation of Shapes Input/Output 31A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong, China February 12, 2010 – April 11, 2010 Despite the ongoing discussions of Hong Kong as an Asian hub for artistic exchange, an auction platform, and the host of the region’s leading art fair, [...]
First published in LEAP, Volume 1 Issue 2. Text by Robin Peckham. Like any cultural system, both the structures and ideological products of contemporary are developed through constant interaction with broader environmental mechanisms—this should appear as a cliched truism, but given recent emphasis on the intervention of art in society as if it were an [...]