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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Also tagged 1a Space, Arrow Factory, Arthub, Artist Pension Trust, Beijing Commune, Big Tail Elephant, BizArt, Boers-Li Gallery, Chu Yun, Company, Forget Art, Homeshop, Jiang Zhi, Liang Yuanwei, Long March Space, MadeIn, Manufactura's Studio, Observation Society, Para/Site, Platform China, Pond Society, Post-Sense Sensibility, Qiu Zhijie, ShanghART, SHIFT, Shuangfei, Shufu, Small Productions, Su Wenxiang, Vitamin Creative Space, Wang Yuyang, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, Zhang Liaoyuan, Zheng Guogu
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Published in Randian. Text by Robin Peckham. Literati painting is often viewed within Chinese art history as a highly restricted genre, consisting of monochromatic works of ink on paper involving natural themes interpreted through a subjective or even abstract treatment produced by amateur scholars, officials, and members of the gentry in southern China across almost [...]
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Published in Yishu, Vol. 10 No. 1, January-February 2011. Text by Robin Peckham. It has become a truism: Chinese art is big not only in terms of physical scale, but also in the impressions it imparts to the observer. Chinese art, and not just that of the big, red, and shiny variety, tends toward the [...]
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Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Environment Chromatic Interferences: Interactive Space by Carlos Cruz-Diez Guangdong Museum of Art (Hall 9) 38 Yanyu Rd., Ersha Island, Guangzhou 11 September – 31 October 2010 There was a moment in the late 1990s and early 2000s, coinciding roughly with the lifespan of the Post-Sense Sensibility exhibitions, during [...]
First published in YTL Life. Text by Robin Peckham. International visibility for contemporary Chinese art arrived more or less in a flash over the last half-decade, fueled both by a global fascination with the re-emergence of the Chinese underground in the leadup to the Beijing Olympics and by the unprecedented popular appeal of art within [...]
Saturday, October 2, 2010
First published in the Hong Kong Gallery Guide. Text by Robin Peckham. I am confident that many scholars of art in and around China, even those working strictly with the most conceptual strands of the contemporary arena, will profess an undying admiration for the aesthetic work of classical painting. It is often remarked that literati [...]
Monday, September 6, 2010
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Great Performances Pace Beijing 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxiangqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China August 28, 2010 – October 16, 2010 In a year marked by large-scale museum exhibitions asserting historical claims over the narrative of Chinese contemporary art, it is only natural that one of [...]
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 China. Text by Robin Peckham. The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today Osage Kwun Tong 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China May 1, 2010 – June 27, 2010 The first thing to know about “The Burden of Representation” is that it is not, in fact, concerned [...]
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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 [...]