Published in another version in LEAP. Text by Robin Peckham. This past year has seen the consolidation of a number of strategies for adapting to the at times paradoxical but always parallel challenges of survival and production, many of which would be unrecognizable or even barred from the institutionalized cosmopolitan alternative systems by which they [...]
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Chen Yujun: The Empty Room Boers-Li Gallery 1-706 Hou Jie, 798 Art District, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R.C. 11 November – 15 December It is always refreshing to locate conceptually-inflected painting that remains true to its likeness on the picture plane, and the Hangzhou-based Chen Yujun is that rare [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. After the Minsheng opening the Chinese art world decamped to Beijing for an ongoing two week block of art fairs and gallery openings, many of which chose to contextualize a vision of current art production far divorced from that simplistic narrative. “Jungle,” the latest group show [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
Wormhole: A Wang Yuyang Solo Exhibition Runs through 13 December 2009 Boers-Li Gallery (No. A-8 Caochangdi, Beijing) Text by Robin Peckham Wang Yuyang is probably best known for his projects within the new media community and its exhibition framework, a reputation that has allowed him to emerge internationally as a leading new artist from China [...]
Text by Venus Lau First published in the Beijinger magazine. More so than most of the world’s living creatures, human beings rely heavily on vision, a perception that fosters itself in art with intoxicatingly bright colors and eye-catching images on canvas and in sculpture, allowing the equation of art and visual art. This assessment is [...]