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Contemporary Chinese Art News 05/2013 (Page 2)

The healing power of art in China

The Chinese-born Australian philanthropist established the Australia China Art Foundation (ACAF), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting artists and building active links in the field of contemporary art between Australia, China and the ... (May 17, 2013, Arts Hub Australian (subscription))

Celebrated Chinese Artist Zhang Huan is Subject of Meijer Gardens Summer ...

Celebrated Chinese Artist Zhang Huan is Subject of Meijer Gardens Summer ... (May 17, 2013, PR Web (press release))

Common ground in a divided world

Some 15 years ago, when Chiu wanted to study contemporary Chinese art for her PhD at the University of Western Sydney, her professor asked her whether there was any point. Appointed to the Asia Society in 2001, she became the first curator of Chinese ... (May 17, 2013, Financial Times)

Hsin-Mei Hsu, Oscar Tang

Dr. Hsu-Tang, 41, is an archaeologist and is the host of History Channel Asia's “Mysteries of China” series and a documentary series on contemporary Chinese art on Discovery Asia. Until 2007, she was an assistant professor of Chinese archaeology at ... (May 19, 2013, New York Times)

Wang Xingwei Exhibit Showcases Artist's Humorously Bizarre Paintings (PHOTOS)

Wang Xingwei, a Chinese artist who counts Marcel Duchamp amongst his heroes, is headed for Beijing's Ullen Center for Contemporary Art for his very own retrospective this month. Showcasing a selection of whimsical, bizarre and even slightly frightening ... (May 19, 2013, Huffington Post)

Exhibition explores history of possible encounters in art

te to a critical reading of this period – the first decade of contemporary Chinese art and the prelude to the era of globalized contemporary art. “Taiping Tianguo” (Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace) was the name of the domain in Southern China ... (May 19, 2013, Hurriyet Daily News)

Contemporary art's brush with oblivion

Brush-painting artist Zhang Daqian recently topped the 2013 Hurun Best-Selling Chinese Artists list, with sales of his auctioned works hitting 2.13 billion yuan ($347.3 million) in 2012. Rounding out the top three were watercolor painter Qi Baishi ... (May 20, 2013, Global Times)

Showing Duchamp's key legacy

According to Tinari Philip, the director of UCCA, this exhibition is the most comprehensive one of Duchamp's work yet mounted in China, and an investigation into Duchamp's lingering influence on the development of contemporary art in China. In the ... (May 20, 2013, China Daily)

China Comes To Ukraine

The famed artist Ai Weiwei introduced Ukrainians to modern China last summer through artwork during the First Kyiv International Biennale. But the Ukrainian public still remains somewhat virginal in terms of experience with contemporary art, especially ... (May 20, 2013, Forbes)

Art Basel in Hong Kong Starts This Week

Zhang said, “I am humbled by the enthusiastic response our contemporary Chinese art collection has received. We are very excited to open this new chapter in Hong Kong's dynamic arts legacy.” At the inaugural edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, her ... (May 20, 2013, Haute Living)

'New Era' For Art Markets As Collectors Drop Half A Billion At Christie's ...

'New Era' For Art Markets As Collectors Drop Half A Billion At Christie's ... (May 20, 2013, Forbes)

Is Hong Kong ready for contemporary art?

When the M+ museum acquired 1,510 artworks from Swiss collector Uli Sigg's legendary collection of Chinese contemporary art in September, the irrefutable coup was met with generally positive responses from most cities in which art matters – except ... (May 21, 2013, Time Out Hong Kong)

China Builds Museums, But Filling Them Is Another Story

When it comes to contemporary art, he says, most Chinese don't know where to begin because cultural education has lagged far behind China's economic boom. "My estimation is one-third to one-half of artworks are hard for average visitors to understand ... (May 21, 2013, NPR (blog))

Collector's Eye: From China to the West

His first piece, bought at the height of the Chinese contemporary art bubble in 2008, is a sculpture by “Political Pop” artist Wang Guangyi. Depicting a female farmworker in communist garb, it now stands in his living room next to a soda-filled fridge ... (May 21, 2013, Wall Street Journal (blog))

Andy Warhol pops up in China ... again

Both artists have gone on to become some of the most recognized and celebrated names in Chinese contemporary art, and some would go as far as calling Ai Weiwei "China's Andy Warhol." "Ai Weiwei loves the idea of multiples," Makos pointed out, noting ... (May 22, 2013, CNN International)

Hong Kong Welcomes the Art World

“It wasn't until 2004 that auction houses started paying attention to contemporary Chinese art, and that's when the big market boom — the big gallery boom — came.” But even now, exposure to the West remains limited. Ms. Schoeni points to the Hong ... (May 22, 2013, New York Times)

Literature and Arts in the late 1970s in China

Her primary research is Contemporary Chinese Art. She has published two monographs entitled The Stars Artists: Pioneers of Contemporary Chinese Art 1979-2000 (Taipei: Artist Publishing, 2007, in Chinese), and Performance Art in China: Site and the ... (May 23, 2013, Asia Society)

Competition heats up in China's art market

While contemporary Chinese art has seen explosive price increases around the world over the past decade, dealers report high demand for Southeast Asian, Indian and Middle Eastern art right now. Moreover, Chinese buyers are branching out and ... (May 23, 2013, SmartPlanet.com (blog))

Meijer Gardens holds special events for Zhang Huan exhibition this summer

Gallery Walk, 7 p.m., June 11 – Join Calvin College Professor, Craig Hanson as he presents an introduction into contemporary Chinese art with a fully illustrated lecture followed by a move to the Sculpture Galleries as he relates his art historical ... (May 23, 2013, MLive.com)

artnet Auctions Presents 'Natural Selection: Contemporary Asian Art'

Works in the sale have estimates ranging from US$1,500 to 50,000. The Contemporary Chinese Art in this sale is led by a number of exceptional works, most notably Untitled (2004) by Feng Zhengjie (Chinese, b.1968). This important Neo-Pop oil painting of ... (May 24, 2013, PR Web (press release))

Literature and Arts in the late 1970s in China

“It's much more complicated to be a Chinese artist today”

There are many new directions of contemporary Chinese art. It's much harder today to categorise or even identify one specific trend and it's much more complicated to be a Chinese artist today than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. It's just like being an ... (May 25, 2013, Art Newspaper)

Chinese ink makes a big splash

The market is sitting up and taking notice, and there is even talk of ink being “the new contemporary Chinese art”—and attracting a rush of collectors. Whether this is a good thing is debatable: the senior curator at M+, Pi Li, who co-founded Boers-Li ... (May 25, 2013, Art Newspaper)

Chinese ink makes a big splash

Interest in contemporary Chinese ink painting, the age-old tradition that is currently undergoing a renaissance, has never been greater—and not just in China. Traditional ink painting is one of the oldest forms of Chinese art and commands huge respect ... (May 25, 2013, PakistanToday.com.pk)

Art Basel fair woos wealthy Chinese with champagne, logos and singers

The local art scene, which has long felt overshadowed by the Chinese contemporary art boom, has mixed feelings about the influx of international dealers. Pui Pui To, director of 2P gallery, one of Hong Kong's few art spaces to represent local artists ... (May 25, 2013, The Guardian)

Global Art Market Beats A Path To China's Doorstep

This was the first year MCH incorporated the Hong Kong fair into its accounts, but the company didn't provide a breakdown between the three. Although contemporary art may look tempting as alternative assets, investors would be wise to avoid being ... (May 27, 2013, Forbes)

Auction houses pin hopes on spring sales

"We have a longer history in China [than them] and have established relationships based on trust with our customers, sellers and vendors," he said. Traditional Chinese paintings, ceramic and antiquities, and contemporary art are the pillars of the ... (May 27, 2013, South China Morning Post)

Zhang Huan 'Looking East, Facing West': Chinese Artist Showcases His Works ...

Zhang Huan 'Looking East, Facing West': Chinese Artist Showcases His Works ... (May 28, 2013, Huffington Post)

Artprice: Hong Kong, with its Bipolar Market, has Become the Epicentre of the ...

Artprice: Hong Kong, with its Bipolar Market, has Become the Epicentre of the ... (May 28, 2013, PR Newswire (press release))

Arts: Surveying the Pacific

If you're an art lover and not plugged into the contemporary Chinese art scene, you're missing a lot of excitement and fun. Because of the increased [number] of millionaires in China, it's growing by leaps and bounds. Mexico City has a phenomenal art ... (May 28, 2013, Orange Coast Magazine (blog))

Departing from Tradition

So part of the allure of contemporary Chinese art is the departure from those traditional characteristics _ many young Chinese artists at work today deliberately forsake narrative forms and toy with new media in an attempt to reflect the changing ... (May 28, 2013, Bangkok Post)

Cash registers ring the changes for China's art market

Collecting contemporary art in Hong Kong is a new phenomenon, and the absence of a good museum infrastructure has not helped develop tastes. In addition, there is a strong overlap with the luxury goods market, aided and abetted by the companies' own ... (May 28, 2013, PakistanToday.com.pk)

Chinese artist's mother moved to tears by display in Venice on son's imprisonment

The work displayed at the Biennale contemporary art show is called S.A.R.E.D. by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, which depicts the 81 days he spent in prison. He did not attend the show because Chinese authorities did not grant him a visa. His mother, Gao ... (May 28, 2013, Waterloo Record)

Art Basel's debut in Hong Kong attracts global celebrities

China's art pervades Venice Biennale 2013

The pavilion was named "Transfiguration," pointing to the evolution of contemporary art in China, which is increasingly diversified in its vision for the exploration of the global reality, organizers said. Art today is entangled with the knowledge of ... (May 30, 2013, Xinhua)

Ceritalah: Asian Art, Basel Style

Chinese calligraphy and Chinese painting are of common origin and interact each other. Oil painting is create by colors and brush touch while traditional Chinese brush painting is by line and strokes. Contemporary Chinese art at the moment is too ... (May 30, 2013, Jakarta Globe)

China's art melts past into future at Venice Biennale 2013

VENICE, Italy, May 30 (Xinhua) -- "Actually I met China through its contemporary art," said an Italian artist, Diego Zuelli, while visiting China's Pavilion unveiled at the Venice Biennale 2013 that will kick off in the iconic water city on Saturday ... (May 31, 2013, People's Daily Online)

Global presence

"The theme not only refers to the creativity of art. We hope to present the transformation and multiple facets of contemporary Chinese art over the past three decades," Wang says. The peripheral shows have stolen some of the thunder from the main event ... (May 31, 2013, ecns)

Hong Kong secures its role as arts hub

Previously known as Art HK, the annual contemporary art fair was already Asia's biggest before MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) took over to make it one of the three shows under the Art Basel label, along with the original in Switzerland and one in Miami ... (May 31, 2013, South China Morning Post)

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