Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Published on Artforum.com Critics’ Picks. Text by Robin Peckham. Lu Yang Art Labor Gallery 570 Yongjia Lu, Bldg. 4, Shanghai, P.R. China 23 October – 18 November Lu Yang, a young female artist working in electronic and biological media, has rocketed to prominence due to this unlikely combination of interests. A darling of the nascent [...]
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Lu Yang Hell Art Labor 2.0 570 Yongjia Lu, Bldg. 4, Shanghai, P.R. China 23 October – 17 November Lu Yang is that rare figure able to cross seamlessly between the various genres and categories of contemporary culture that, far more so than elsewhere, have come to separate [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
First published in LEAP, Volume 1 Issue 2. Text by Robin Peckham. The most popular posts on the art world internet this month circulated around the escalating demolition of art districts in suburban Beijing almost without exception, a topic that was eventually banned by the end of February. Although many threads and images were deleted, [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
First published in Digicult. Interview by Robin Peckham. Let’s start at the very beginning. You were born in Shanghai in 1984, which raises two questions. First: how do you feel about the idea of Shanghai as a distinct artistic culture? The past several years have seen a renewed interest in a certain fashionable notion of [...]