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Unmask: Shopping

Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Unmask: Shopping Tang Contemporary Art LG/F Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Rd., Sheung Wan, Hong Kong 4 – 24 November Further west on the Hong Kong Island gallery circuit, the Beijing art collective Unmask offers another take on torturous configurations of the human body not dissimilar to those proposed [...]

Li Hui at Tang Contemporary

First published in ART-iT. Text by Robin Peckham. I have not often bothered hiding my boredom with and occasionally even antipathy for the work of Li Hui, whose experiments with light often appear as uncritical and self-satisfied odes to the dazzling speed of modern technology. As often as not, these take the form of explosively [...]

Grammar and Control

Two reviews by Robin Peckham Gu Dexin, “2009-05-02″ Galleria Continua, Beijing Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, “Freedom” Tang Contemporary, Beijing These are violent exhibitions, and empty ones. For Gu Dexin, the walls are bare concrete. The upper third of each is covered in red text on white ground, mimicking the slogans on Chinese propaganda banners [...]