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New Attitude of Image

Text by Robin Peckham Exhibition runs through 5 December 2009 Tang Contemporary (Gate No. 2, 798 Art District, Beijing) As usual with such group shows in Beijing, it is unclear what exactly Tang Contemporary and curator Wei Xing attempt to do with their new exhibition “The New Attitude of Image” The incoherent but indubitably grandiose [...]

Sun Huiyuan and the Status of Creativity

Text by Robin Peckham There is a particular artistic ethic at work in Hangzhou today, largely traceable to the halls of the New Media Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts, led by the venerable educators Zhang Peili and Qiu Zhijie. This artistic ethic–it would be remiss to call it an aesthetic–is a conceptual [...]