By Venus Lau Biennials are usually considered a marketing strategy for countries and cities, showing off an idealized persona to “outsiders.” This edition of the Singapore Biennale, taking place at the National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, Old Kallang Airport, and Marina Bay, continues to demonstrate the cultural strata of the country by coordinating [...]
Published in LEAP, Vol. 2 No. 1, February 2011 Text by Robin Peckham. Fominaya, Alvaro Rodriguez, and Lee, Michael, eds., Who Cares? 16 Essays on Curating in Asia. Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space with Studio Bibliotheque and seed | projects, 2010. 187pp. ISBN: 9789889896393 (pbk.). We find in Hong Kong something of a curatorial anxiety: [...]
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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Monday, November 22, 2010
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Kacey Wong: Drift City 10 Years (2000-2010) Hong Kong Arts Centre (2/F-3/F Jockey Club Atrium) 2 Harbour Rd., Wanchai, Hong Kong 3 – 27 November Organized to coincide with the launch of a retrospective monograph on the past decade of a single series of work by Hong Kong [...]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Published in the Hong Kong Gallery Guide. Text by Robin Peckham. The place of spirituality in the Western art of our time is more or less clear: innovative art has consistently defined itself in relationship to mainstream religion, and the heritage of symbols and sensations of affect from the Christian tradition remains steady across the [...]
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
First published in Singapore Architect. “A Happy Valley: Michael Lee’s Lost City and Other Stories at Hanart TZ, Hong Kong” Text by Robin Peckham. Sharing a certain measure of the colonial legacy in terms of architecture and urban planning, Singapore and Hong Kong present interesting scenarios for both heritage preservation and experimental architecture. There exists [...]
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 [...]