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 [...]
First published in YTL Life. Text by Robin Peckham. International visibility for contemporary Chinese art arrived more or less in a flash over the last half-decade, fueled both by a global fascination with the re-emergence of the Chinese underground in the leadup to the Beijing Olympics and by the unprecedented popular appeal of art within [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Fresh Eyes 2010 He Xiangning Art Museum Shennan Road, Overseas Chinese Town Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China July 18, 2010 – September 12, 2010 Painting in China has been in crisis since shortly before the boom at auction that rocketed artists with little sense for the terms of [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Rob and Nick Carter: Revolve 15 June – 31 July The Cat Street Gallery 222 Hollywood Rd., Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong is an interesting city in which to play with light, essentially constructed our of varying glass and steel rectangles perched between verdant [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
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 [...]