First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Book Review: History in the Making, Shanghai 1979-2009: Artist Interviews & Work Archives by Biljana Ciric It may be that this decade will eventually be recalled as a period in which a usable archive on contemporary art in China finally sprang into existence. Within the space of [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. One is Everything: 50 Years of Work by Richard Lin Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art 80 Meishuguan Road, Gushan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, China May 15, 2010 – September 26, 2010 Richard Lin is something of an anomaly in the contemporary art world. Though he, like so [...]
First published on Artnet. Text by Robin Peckham. The spring art fair season in China witnessed a major reshuffling, as the Beijing fairs CIGE and Art Beijing again jockeyed for position within the mainland contemporary market—this year with a rather clear winner, if attendance, participation, and sales figures are anything to go by—but both fairs [...]
Saturday, August 21, 2010
First published on Artnet. Text by Robin Peckham. Although the major media outlets, particularly within China, have chosen to present the first half of 2010 as a moment of emergence for Chinese collectors on the international stage, this is only half the picture: the auction results tell a rather different story. From Beijing to Hong [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. One of the core members of the cluster of artist studios at Fotan, an agglomeration of several dozen industrial buildings in the New Territories of Hong Kong, Lee Kit has developed art objects and an artistic practice based on his own style of life. Over the past [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Fresh Eyes 2010 He Xiangning Art Museum Shennan Road, Overseas Chinese Town Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China July 18, 2010 – September 12, 2010 Painting in China has been in crisis since shortly before the boom at auction that rocketed artists with little sense for the terms of [...]
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First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990 Asia Art Archive 11/F Hollywood Center, 233 Hollywood Rd Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China May 26, 2010 – September 30, 2010 Despite the widespread availability of Chinese-language histories of questionable veracity or even honesty and the plethora [...]
First published on World Wide Pop. Text by Robin Peckham. Stephen Chow controls the canon of humorous film in Hong Kong. Although today both he and fellow hometown heavy-hitter Jackie Chan have made their peace with the dictators in Beijing and pledged to use only Mandarin, the language of bureaucratic boredom, in their future films, [...]
First published in Artforum. Text by Robin Peckham Lost City and Other Stories: Objects and Diagrams Michael Lee 23 July – 23 August Hanart Square (Hanart TZ Gallery) 2/F, Mai On Industrial Building, 17-21 Kung Yip St., Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong The relationship between architecture and art has been consistently tense since sculpture [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Karaoke Although the majority of Hong Kong artists shy away from karaoke as one of the many mass cultural practices their hipper-than-thou ethos bar them from enjoying, at times a special occasion arises. In the wake of two important openings last week during what should otherwise be [...]