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Contemporary Chinese Art News 03/2015 (Page 2)

Art Fair Tokyo seeks to educate

This reflects the strength of the Chinese contemporary art market, but it is also connected to a particular weakness of the Japanese art market, according to Shin: a peculiarly Japanese inability to explain art. “I think it's because of English,” she ... (Mar 12, 2015, The Japan Times)

A close look at Chinese art: an interview with Anthony Phuong, director of A2Z ...

A close look at Chinese art: an interview with Anthony Phuong, director of A2Z ... (Mar 12, 2015, AMA)

Global art sales continue to soar; China still among top markets

In 2014, the largest art sector by value was postwar and contemporary art, representing 48% of all fine art sales. The second-biggest sector was modern, with 28% of the global fine art auction market. Last year saw considerable tumult with the ... (Mar 12, 2015, Los Angeles Times)

An Australian gallerist in China: an interview with Brian Wallace

Now with a roster of 20 artists, and a regular residency programme since 2001, the gallery, which is currently located in a Ming dynasty tower, Dongbianmen, has firmly established itself as a key player in the Chinese contemporary art scene. Art Media ... (Mar 12, 2015, AMA)

Asia Society Hong Kong Art Gala Honors Do Ho Suh, Xu Bing, Wucius Wong ...

Asia Society Hong Kong Art Gala Honors Do Ho Suh, Xu Bing, Wucius Wong ... (Mar 13, 2015, artnet News)

China's art and artists beyond Ai Weiwei

Gladston, who is the director of the Centre for Contemporary East-Asian Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, makes much of the fact that he has evaluated Chinese contemporary art in the context of the country's wider socio-economic and ... (Mar 13, 2015, Art Newspaper)

M+ adds to its founding collection

It has also complemented its founding Sigg collection of contemporary Chinese art, acquiring 45 works by artists from the No Name group. Much of the collection is stored in Switzerland, Shanghai and Beijing, due to the cost of storage in Hong Kong ... (Mar 13, 2015, Art Newspaper)

Big-brand fair that's not just about biennial favourites

Unfamiliar faces at the fair: Hangzhou-based Li Qing is a young Chinese artist with a growing market, at Leo Xu Projects (3C16) with his work. Photo by Norm Yip. Art Basel in Hong Kong, which opens to VIPs today, 13 March, has become a place for ... (Mar 13, 2015, Art Newspaper)

Five rising stars of Chinese contemporary art

'At last, women artists are beginning to make a strong impact in fields of Chinese performance, video and conceptual art. At the forefront of these is Shanghai-based Lu Yang (born 1984) whose unsettling animation Uterusman (2013) I curated last year ... (Mar 13, 2015, Christie's)

Art and politics collide on fringes of Hong Kong art fair

Three months after police quashed the last of Hong Kong's massive pro-democracy street protests, its artists are keeping the movement alive with displays of edgy, protest artwork on the fringes of Asia's leading contemporary art fair. ... The protest ... (Mar 13, 2015, The Nation)

Art Basel a spectacle that's mesmerising and overwhelming

It's big, it's flashy, it's overwhelming - it's exactly what an international contemporary art trade show should be. And, love it or ... Cao Fei's Nu River Project, a video screened inside a tent, takes a look at the rapid and chaotic changes in ... (Mar 13, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))

Morning Links: NSA Art Edition

Chinese-Indonesian collector Budi Tek is developing plans for an “art theme park” in Bali, including spaces underground. The complex is due to open near the capital, Denpasar, ... [Contemporary Art Daily]. Read this review of “The Plains Indians,” an ... (Mar 13, 2015, ARTnews)

Where Art Is a Woman's World

Women tend to collect differently from men. In China, which has more self-made billionairesses than any other country, female collectors are increasingly interested in Chinese contemporary art, with women like Wang Wei, co-founder of the Long Museum in ... (Mar 13, 2015, New York Times)

China opens its door wider to foreign artists

Demand for international contemporary art in mainland China is still evolving, as Western dealers at Art Basel in Hong Kong this week are well aware. But a flurry of major museum exhibitions now on in Shanghai and Beijing suggests that institutional ... (Mar 15, 2015, Art Newspaper)

Mexican contemporary arts show in Beijing

An exhibition of Mexican contemporary art opened on March 12 at the Cervantes Institute in Beijing, part of series of events marking successful cultural exchange projects between China and Mexico. The Nao Now: In The Center of the Maze, an exhibition ... (Mar 16, 2015, Chinadaily USA)

sou fujimoto's mirrored gardens sits as a micro-village in rural china

a place where contemporary art practice meets agriculture, 'mirrored gardens' – run by vitamin creative space – is located in the rural outskirts of guangzhou, china and makes a nod to the culture and characteristics of the traditional villages nearby ... (Mar 16, 2015, Designboom)

Laotian Artist Helps Redefine 'Contemporary'

“She is considered one of Laos's leading contemporary artists,” Michelle Ho, a curator at the Singapore Art Museum who focuses on Indo-China contemporary art, wrote in an email interview. “Marisa's works are significant for how they present new ways of ... (Mar 16, 2015, New York Times)

13 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, March 17

Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University, presents the 14th annual Heller Lecture, entitled To Move Mountains: Old Script and New Practices in Contemporary Chinese Art. Helen Mayburg talks about depression, ... (Mar 16, 2015, Straight.com (blog))

13 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Tuesday, March 17

Elemental – Contemporary Multimedia Installations by Tianli Zu at China ...

Elemental – Contemporary Multimedia Installations by Tianli Zu at China ... (Mar 18, 2015, PRWire (press release))

As Chinese Tourism Increases, American Museums Adapt

MoMA also accepts UnionPay, has a Weibo account and offers an audio guide of its permanent collection in Mandarin and a map in simplified and traditional Chinese. In September, when the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing mounted an ... (Mar 18, 2015, New York Times)

Asian Artists have demonstrations, exhibit in Mt. Pleasant

“By coming to America I tried to learn contemporary art, so I realized there had to be a merge with Eastern, Western culture in my art work. With my background training I can take contemporary art and Chinese training to marry them together,” Kostrzewa ... (Mar 18, 2015, The Morning Sun)

From commerce to culture: The mission to build Asia's MoMA

Endowments so far include, thrillingly, the Uli Sigg collection, "universally recognized" as the largest, most comprehensive collection of Chinese contemporary art from the 1970's to the present. It contains works by leading artists including Ai Weiwei ... (Mar 20, 2015, CNN)

From commerce to culture: The mission to build Asia's MoMA

AmEx-Toting Chinese Billionaire Extends $100 Million Art Spree

... Jinlian, who paid $28.2 million for a Picasso in New York in November 2013, as emerging influential buyers at art auctions around the world. Sales were also brisk at Art Basel Hong Kong last week, where $3 billion worth of contemporary art was on ... (Mar 20, 2015, Bloomberg)

City draws on art exposure

Held for the third time after taking over from the city's annual art fair, the modern and contemporary art fair has established itself into a signature event in Asia since 2013. This year's show had a strong presence of artists in the region, with 233 ... (Mar 20, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))

Arts Etc. – March 22, 2015

“Art Beasties – Time Difference: Seattle-New York-Tokyo” is an intriguing idea for a group show. It started with a Japanese artist collective based in New York and then became a collaboration between Japanese artists in different cities exploring time, ... (Mar 22, 2015, The International Examiner)

7 Women in Contemporary Chinese Art You Need To Know

Continuing our celebration of successful women in the art world, artnet News has compiled a list of seven women who are making a name for themselves in the Chinese contemporary art scene. We picked their brains about contemporary art, what it means to ... (Mar 23, 2015, artnet News)

7 Women in Contemporary Chinese Art You Need To Know

Continuing our celebration of successful women in the art world, artnet News has compiled a list of seven women who are making a name for themselves in the Chinese contemporary art scene. We learned some of their thoughts about contemporary art and ... (Mar 23, 2015, artnet News)

The Long Museum Presents 'Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition'

To mark the first anniversary of its inauguration, the Long Museum (West Bund) will host the grand opening of Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition on March 28, 2015. Xu Zhen is an iconic, leading figure within the realm of contemporary Chinese art. Surveying art ... (Mar 23, 2015, Hyperallergic)

Collectors & their collections: No. 16

I was born into an artistic family: my dad was a film director and my mother was a theatre actress. My two older sisters also work in the art field. In 1996, there was a contemporary art exhibition called Yesterday: Today and Tomorrow, curated by Leng ... (Mar 24, 2015, Christie's)

China's shopping malls undergo creative shift

More recently, Swire Properties' Taikoo Li mixed-use retail complex in Chengdu has helped to redefine the social retail strategy with its combination of heritage buildings and contemporary art in a low-rise town centre-style development. The 250,000 ... (Mar 24, 2015, South China Morning Post (subscription))

"Shame in Venice": Italian-Chinese Line-up for Kenya's Biennale Pavilion ...

"Shame in Venice": Italian-Chinese Line-up for Kenya's Biennale Pavilion ... (Mar 25, 2015, artnet News)

Film Screening: 85 New Waves

The '85 movement is an incredibly important moment in the history of contemporary Chinese art as it was in this period that young artists throughout the country were inundated with new art and theory from the outside world, inspiring them to create ... (Mar 25, 2015, The Beijinger)

Xu Zhen at Shanghai's Long Museum West Bund

On the occasion of its first birthday on 28 March, the Long Museum West Bund will celebrate the launch of the exhibition of works by the major artist of the contemporary Chinese art scene. One hundred of his works will be exhibited over 30,000 square ... (Mar 25, 2015, AMA)

Naïve patriotism inflates Chinese art market

In March 2006, Sotheby's held its pilot Asian contemporary art auction in New York, highlighting the works of a dozen or so Chinese artists including the now bold names like Xu Bing, Zhang Huan, and Wang Guangyi. The session brought in more than $13 ... (Mar 26, 2015, Global Times)

"Shame in Venice": Italian-Chinese Line-up for Kenya's Biennale Pavilion ...

"Shame in Venice": Italian-Chinese Line-up for Kenya's Biennale Pavilion ... (Mar 26, 2015, artnet News)

Old-World Impressionists Impress with New Value

One reason is that compared to what's happening in both the western and Chinese contemporary art sectors, impressionist and modern are more reasonably priced, Jordan says. Collectors from China who have been exposed to the great museums of the ... (Mar 27, 2015, Barron's)

Sharks, Art and Games in the Elevator

White Rabbit, Sydney's contemporary Chinese Art Gallery, sits in the suburban shadow of Sydney's Central Park, in a building that was once a Roll-Royce service depot. It's on a block of once-weres: once factories, once brothels, once mechanics. Central ... (Mar 27, 2015, Honi Soit)

Obstacles ahead for Island cultural institutions with Wheel on horizon

Snug Harbor also aims to work with the Wheel to be part of a joint pass -- where riders of the Wheel will also get special access Snug Harbor attractions like the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art and the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden. This year ... (Mar 27, 2015, SILive.com)

Is Judith Neilson Australia's greatest arts patron?

... Management founder Kerr Neilson, who netted more than $2.8 billion floating his funds management business in 2007. Two years later, the pair opened the White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney's paean to contemporary Chinese art showcasing a collection of more ... (Mar 27, 2015, The Australian Financial Review)

The Art Market: Christie's Robert Ellsworth auction

Much has been made of deep-pocketed Chinese buyers collecting modern and contemporary art but Christie's sale of the Robert Ellsworth collection in New York last week comes as a reminder that traditional Chinese art is still a major focus. Billionaire ... (Mar 27, 2015, Financial Times)

The Art Money 20: Which Artists Have Performed Best at Auction Since 1995?

Bacon has been a favorite of some of the newer-to-the-game über collectors of contemporary art, particularly from the Middle East and China. The record for the highest price ever achieved at auction was the $142.4 million paid for the triptych Three ... (Mar 27, 2015, artnet News)

"Shame in Venice": Italian-Chinese Line-up for Kenya's Biennale Pavilion ...

"Shame in Venice": Italian-Chinese Line-up for Kenya's Biennale Pavilion ... (Mar 27, 2015, artnet News)

7 Women in Contemporary Chinese Art You Need To Know

Continuing our celebration of successful women in the art world, artnet News has compiled a list of seven women who are making a name for themselves in the Chinese contemporary art scene. We learned some of their thoughts about contemporary art and ... (Mar 27, 2015, artnet News)

Asia Society Hong Kong Art Gala Honors Do Ho Suh, Xu Bing, Wucius Wong ...

Asia Society Hong Kong Art Gala Honors Do Ho Suh, Xu Bing, Wucius Wong ... (Mar 27, 2015, artnet News)

Beyond Ai Weiwei: How China's Artists Handle Politics (or Avoid Them)

But, with the notable exception of Huang and the Beijing artist Xu Qu, whose installation of tattered yellow umbrellas, called “Occupy Art Central,” was shown at the nearby Art Central fair, few Chinese artists whose work I saw seemed to grapple ... (Mar 27, 2015, The New Yorker)

Cultivating An Ai Weiwei Collection

Prior to deciding to build their collection around Ai, Stockamp, 34, and Tsai, 40, collected contemporary Chinese art broadly beginning in 2003. The year before, Stockamp, who was raised in Germany, saw “Chinart,” a far-ranging survey of 40 ... (Mar 28, 2015, Artinfo UK)

Pop goes the art market

A roster of pieces by Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Alberto Giacometti, and others took the prices of modern and contemporary art into a stratosphere once limited to older classics. The Dom Pérignon, it seemed, was flowing in the executive suites of ... (Mar 28, 2015, Fortune)

Things to do in and around Greenwich

Comedian Jane Condon will be the featured guest at the Retired Mens Association at 10:30 a.m. April 1 at the First Presbyterian Church on Lafayette Place. For more information, call Bernard Schneider at 203-698-2558 or email [email protected], or visit ... (Mar 30, 2015, Greenwich Time)

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