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 Randian. Text by Robin Peckham. Literati painting is often viewed within Chinese art history as a highly restricted genre, consisting of monochromatic works of ink on paper involving natural themes interpreted through a subjective or even abstract treatment produced by amateur scholars, officials, and members of the gentry in southern China across almost [...]
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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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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 in InMagazine. Conversation carried out by Robin Peckham and Venus Lau with Doreen Heng Liu. Doreen Heng Liu, the principal of NODE Office and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, began her architectural career with something rare in that field: a blank slate for the design of a new urban [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]