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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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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Monday, December 20, 2010
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Conception as Enzyme A4 Gallery 20 Section 2, Luxehills Blvd., Shuang Liu, Chengdu, P.R.C. 30 October – 12 December Independent curator Bao Dong is increasingly seen as the emerging face of critical art production and interpretation in Beijing, so it was met with some excitement when he announced [...]
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First published in Modern Art Asia. Text by Robin Peckham. Review: Art Intervenes in Society: A New Artistic Relationship Wang Chunchen Published by Chinese Contemporary Art Awards in collaboration with Timezone8, 2010 The past year has seen an unprecedented level of self-conscious social activism within the art world in Beijing, both in the sense that [...]
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 [...]
The fourth annual “AAC Award for the Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art” (which retains its nonsensical acronym even after adding an explanatory subtitle, leaving us with the unwieldy AAC-AFTMIPOCA) passed without much commentary from the blogs, many writers seemingly numbed to the staid ceremony’s starstruck lack of credibility. Last year, Xu Zhen hired a [...]
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 [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art Minsheng Art Museum 570 West Huaihai Rd., Bldg. F, Red Town International Art Community, 200050 Shanghai, China, China April 19, 2010 – July 18, 2010 Last week saw the grand opening of the Minsheng Art Museum, an institution owned by [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Jiang Zhi’s landmark solo exhibition Attitude has now completed two of its three manifestations: Osage Shanghai opened the project during the art fairs there in fall 2009, Osage Kwun Tong enlarged the presentation in scale and scope for Hong Kong this past month, and Osage Beijing, a gallery that has been devoid of exhibitions for [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
First published in LEAP, Volume 1 Issue 1. Text by Robin Peckham. Wang Chunchen was announced as the second biannual recipient of the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards Criticism Prize established by Uli Sigg and judged by Sigg, Richard Vine, Xu Bing, and Qiu Zhijie. Naturally, netizens had some choice words for Wang. Some remarked that [...]