Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Lu Yang Hell Art Labor 2.0 570 Yongjia Lu, Bldg. 4, Shanghai, P.R. China 23 October – 17 November Lu Yang is that rare figure able to cross seamlessly between the various genres and categories of contemporary culture that, far more so than elsewhere, have come to separate [...]
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. 38 Jianchang Hutong: New Work by Zhang Peili Arrow Factory 38 Jianchang Hutong, Dongcheng, Beijing 25 August – 10 October 2010 For various political reasons–both diplomatic and theoretical–it has always been deemed relevant and sympathetic to voice support for the exhibition program at Arrow Factory, one of the [...]
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. Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990 Asia Art Archive 11/F Hollywood Center, 233 Hollywood Rd Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China May 26, 2010 – September 30, 2010 Despite the widespread availability of Chinese-language histories of questionable veracity or even honesty and the plethora [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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 [...]