The fall group exhibition “I will be your eyes” at Art+ Shanghai Gallery assembles seven accolade graduates and postgraduates of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). The winner of the CAFA graduate exhibition Shi Yunyuan focused on the reconstructing the old maps of the Beijing 15th century walls that ere demolished in 1965 due to the construction of the new Beijing 2nd Ring Road. Shi Yunyuan’s 66 Writings (2016) is based upon the artist’s extensive research of Beijing’s old city wall, a series of inner and outer fortifications established during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) to keep foreigner at bay. To reinstate its memory, Shi collected 66 different pieces of passages from orally transcribed and written accounts by scholars, architects, government officials, journalists and business people who argued to retain or demolish the city wall. The artist eventually amassed an archive of near forgotten oral and written viewpoints, which she re-inscribed for reflection in her calligraphic series 66 Writings (2016). In 1-16/2016 Manuscripts (2016), Shi has constructed her own vision of a city wall on panels of mounted xuan paper, which cover two corners of an adjoining wall. #chinesecontemporaryart #beijing #shanghai #artexhibition
The fall group exhibition “I
will be your eyes” at Art + Shanghai Gallery from September 4th to October
23rd assembles 7 Chinese artists born in the 1990s:
SHANG Zongliang, SHI Yunyuan, XIE Jingsi, XU Sijin, XUE Yayuan, YAN
Shixuan, and ZHENG Qinyu. “I will be your
eyes” is
an artistic catalyst for an alternate vision. A vision of sight when there is
no guiding light and a vision striving for reconciliation in a world mounting
with escalating tensions. Thus, it is with sensitivity that the forgotten are
inscribed back into the collective consciousness and what we neglect to see are
thoughtfully exposed. Through the keen eyesight of the seven accolade graduates
of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, we are guided towards an
intuitive discovery. #artexhibition #chinesecontemporaryart #shanghai #artshanghai #beijing #beijingwall
Art+ Shanghai Gallery is showing the stunning works by one of the biggest names of Spanish photographer Ouka Leele, the Chinese photographer with an international accaim Yao Lu and French photographer Nathalie Perakis-Valat at PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2016—one of Asia’s largest photography showcases. Each artist provide a unique insight into the force behind the large-scale changes in society, stimulating a new discourse on the ramifications of this fastpaced rhythm for the communities.
This week’s post highlights Zhang Wen’s new painting series currently exhibited at the Art+ Shanghai gallery. Her “Coming of Age” series is about the search for an adult identity: filled with the nostalgia, experiences and revelations inherent in growing up. It is almost as if through her art she can hold off that moment when the innocence of childhood is broken by the realities of adulthood. Her works carry a wistful wisdom, a knowledge that paradoxically, innocence can only be recognized retrospectively, from the vantage point of experience.
Resurrection of Materiality: Dual Exhibition by Zhuang Hong Yi and Zhang Zhenxue shows artworks that detect the shift in attitude towards physicality in contemporary art. Accentuating the role of material in their works, both artists share a common vision of material as a means not only to transmit meaning, but rather as a means to create meaning. Treatment of the surface is therefore a technique as well as an artistic statement that underlines a new tendency in the contemporary art landscape. Zhuang Hong Yi’s works present composed images made out of multicolored flower petals on rice paper. In his “flower paintings” inspired by aerial views of the flower fields in the Netherlands, the Beijing-Rotterdam based artist applies colors and varnish on rose and lotus petals, arranging them on the surface in a process akin to action painting. . Inspired by the cinema of ’50s and particularly the cinema of one of the giants of Italian cinematography, works of the Chongqing-based artist Zhang Zhenxue are marked by increased involvement with materiality rendered in thick layers of oil paint and occasionally glass fragments.
Get ready to be astounded by the new series of works displaying juxtapositions of Chinese imagery and Western art by TAMEN, an artist collective composed of artists Lai Shengyu (赖圣予) and Yang Xiaogang (杨晓钢) #TAMEN #chineseart #artgallery #contemporaryart #jeffkoons #mauriziocattelan #andywarhol #traceyemin #damienhirst #picasso #salvadordali #caspardavidfriedrich
Art Central, Hong Kong’s contemporary art fair with a distinctly Asian
edge returns to the iconic Central Harbourfront 23-26 March 2016. If you are there, be sure to stop by,
where you will find Art+ Shanghai
Gallery at BOOTH C10. We will be featuring painting,
sculpture and installation works by Huang Yulong,
Li Wei,
Lin Weixiang,
Seungmo Park,
Shen Hua,
Tamen,
Zhang Wei,
Zhou Jie and Ye Hongxing.
Through
works of
painting, mixed media, and sculpture, Art+ Shanghai Gallery’s nine artists represent
a range of backgrounds, mediums, and styles, mingling tradition with the bold, the
familiar with the inspiring. #artcentral #artcentral2016 #hongkong #artfair #chineseart #asianart #contemporaryart #artgallery #contemporarysculpture #yehongxing #seungmopark #zhangwei #zhoujie #tamen #liwei #huangyulong #shenhua #linweixiang
With a tone that shifts from playful to somber and
incorporates shades of intrigue and rebellion, Rewriting Beyond Reality straddles the border between fantasy and
realism to seamlessly incorporate both realms of existence into works of quiet
intensity. The two Chinese artists presented, Lin Weixiang and Hu Ke, respond
to their environments of contemporary China by defying the trends towards
bustling urbanism and commercialization to instead embrace the narratives of
internal disquiet, doubt, and desire that lie beneath superficial facades. As
Lin Weixiang’s paintings construct worlds of harmonious fantasy through the layering
and revealing of textile and pigment, Hu Ke’s sculptures achieve weight via the
psychological struggle between isolation and reflection. Unfolding multiple
layers of reality and one’s perception to it, Rewriting Beyond Reality challenges surface narratives and the
mind’s limitations, championing the boundless realms of existence, and the
individual’s place in them. #chineseart #contemporaryart #asianart #trees #sculpture #painting #fabric #shanghai #art #artplusshanghai #artgallery #exhibition
Art+ Shanghai Gallery is bringing contemporary Chinese art to Singapore at Art Stage Singapore 2016. Our booth introduces an array of new works, including abstract paintings of bold color by Shen Hua, a new series of ‘currency’ in stickers on canvas by Ye Hongxing, and innovative sculptures of paper, wire, and bronze, by Shen Hua, Shi Jindian, and Cai Zhisong. Visit Art+ Shanghai Gallery at Marina Bay Sands from January 21 to 24 (and VIP preview on January 20) at Booth E22! #artstagesingapore #singapore #contemporaryart #asianart #artplusshanghai #yehongxing #sculpture #harleydavidson #currency #chineseart #artfair
“Affect/Effect: Transformation in the Work of Li Wei” showcases the recent works by Beijing-based artist Li Wei, who continues her pictorial strategies of deconstructing and rebuilding China’s landscape scenery in her signature technique. Running from October 23 to December 31, the exhibition sheds a new light on mass reproduction and mechanization where Li Wei’s works mimic the effect of the digitally processed image with its dotted deconstruction of natural imagery, but has an affectation of the unique, contemporary, and novel that does not undermine the original.
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