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Naoshima: Japan's Art Island
Published on 2012-04-25 01:44:28
Naoshima is a small island that lies in the Seto Inland Sea of southern Japan. Although hard to get to, art lovers from around the world venture to this distant local to stay at the Benesse House Museum. The museum has 10 rooms that guests can stay in. A perk of staying at the museum is that guests of the Benesse House can venture around the museum’s contemporary art collection after hours. The famed Pumpkin by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama greets visitors The development of the art is [..] > read more
Tang Contemporary Art Center: Wang Du and more
Published on 2012-04-14 03:51:33
Tang Contemporary is always one of the major stops on a 798 art outing. This month is no exception. Famed artist Wang Du has built a massive Contemporary Art Museum of China within Tang Contemporary’s cavernous exhibition space. Contemporary Art Museum of China The gigantic aircraft carrier has been divided into four pieces. Each of the pieces are connected through passageways and bridges. Underneath the main body of the aircraft carrier is a complex underground system of art facilit [..] > read more
Li Zhanyang: The Nightmare
Published on 2012-04-04 04:24:57
Galerie Urs Meilie current show The Nightmare is a strong critique on the immense pressures on Chinese children. Li Zhanyang, born in 1969 is a multi-media artist based in Chongqing and Beijing. He is an art professor and a father of a nine-year-old girl. Education has always been important in Chinese society but the recent rise of the economic prowess of China has created a monster out of the educational system. Section of a wall installation As a parent, Li Zhanyang draws inspiration fro [..] > read more
Zheng Wei solo show at BANG
Published on 2012-03-23 04:46:03
Beijing Art Now Gallery also known as BANG is one of the first galleries to get accepted into international top art fairs like Art Basel. Their unassuming gallery space is located in the red brick cluster that Ai Wei Wei designed in Cao Changdi. Born in 1983 in Harbin, Zheng Wei is quite the rebel and has a unique rock and roll twist to many of his mutli-media works. The exhibition is titled Die in 20XX. Die in 20XX, Mixed Materials, 185 > read more
Direction- Affection of Artists’ 30s and 40s at Soka
Published on 2012-03-06 01:15:02
Soka Art Center was founded in Tainan, Taiwan in 1992. It was one of the first art centers to dedicated itself to the promotion of Asian contemporary art. In 2001 the art center opened its Beijing space and started to work with the first generation of mainland Chinese artists such as famed Xu Beihong. In 2010, the Beijing space moved to the infamous 798 art district. Zhao Guanghui, The Right Evolution Advice of Dragon Horse, Mixed Media, 600×300×240cm, 2011 This exhibition focuses on Chin [..] > read more
Bald Girls at Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
Published on 2012-03-05 00:16:00
Iberia is one institution that is willing to push boundaries in the more and more commercial 798 art district. Bald Girls is a three woman show that boldly discusses feminism and gender identity in China. The three artists Li Xinmo, Xiao Lu and Jiny Lan proclaim that this is China’s first feminist art exhibition. Image taken after all three artists shaved their heads at the exhibition opening. Their hair is in three clumps on the floor of the gallery. Through a Western perspective, s [..] > read more
Sui Jianguo Retrospective at PACE Beijing
Published on 2012-03-04 03:34:15
Sui Jianguo is China’s most prolific and respected sculptor. The critic Huang Zhuan states that Sui Jianguo is the Chinese sculptor who took the Conceptual route the earliest and the farthest. Although not called a retrospective, this exhibition showcases 30 works that have been made over the course of his career starting from 1987. entrance to exhibition The exhibition at PACE Beijing opened this weekend to throngs of people. Everyone in the Chinese art world came to pay respect to [..] > read more
Li Bo solo show at Gallery Yang in Sanlitun
Published on 2012-02-29 10:13:37
Gallery Yang impresses the art world yet again with their current show The Blank Left after Extraction. This time around seasoned artist Li Bo has transformed the Sanlitun gallery into a high-art torture chamber. Playing with motifs of earlier series, his new works are a breath of fresh air while still challenging the concepts of danger and safety. Once known for his sexually explicit rope paintings of young Chinese women, Li Bo has disappeared from the Beijing art scene for the last two y [..] > read more
World Hug Day: Utopia of Hugging for 20 minutes
Published on 2012-02-21 08:47:20
The Gao Brothers were invited to perform their signature World Hug Day in Rome last month. The inspiration for this huge cultural event is a performance piece they created in 1999 at a Beijing performance festival. In the late 1990s there was no Chinese Contemporary art market and many artists were using their physical bodies as their medium of expression. There was a lot of pain and disillusionment from the Tiananmen Square incident and the strict government policies that followed, theref [..] > read more
Art Stage Singapore 2012
Published on 2012-01-17 02:23:01
2012 starts off a bit shaky with the highly anticipated Art Stage Singapore. Although this year’s edition of Art Stage boasted more top notch international galleries such as White Cube, Massimo De Carlo, Victoria Miro and Haunch of Venison the end result was quite somber due to the lack of strong sales. Sun Xun ink paintings Art Stage is considered to be the second most important fair in the Asia region, right behind of Art HK. That might change in the near future depending on how th [..] > read more
Wang Qingsong's Happy New Year at Tang Contemporary
Published on 2012-01-04 21:25:46
Happy New Year from all of us at ML Art Source! Last year we were very fortunate to experience some of the best Chinese contemporary art exhibitions in Beijing and around the world. We have high hopes for 2012. Forbes has predicted that China will be the world’s largest art market, eventually surpassing the USA. That will bring big changes to the Chinese contemporary art scene here, in the mainland, and abroad. Main exhibition tall of Tang Contemporary To ring in the year of the Dr [..] > read more
The Gao Brothers and Ai Weiwei in Los Angeles
Published on 2011-12-24 00:23:27
The Gao Brothers and Ai Weiwei make their mark on the Los Angeles city pavement. The most politically controversial Chinese contemporary artists have their iconic outdoor sculptures exhibited in Miracle Mile at the ACE Museum and LACMA. Although their politically dissident work has made them blacklisted in China, they continue to speak their minds about the government and the complex problems associated with New China. The power behind their artworks transcends countries and cultures. Miss M [..] > read more
Faurschou Foundation Beijing
Published on 2011-12-16 01:12:28
Faurschou started off as a gallery with spaces in Copenhagen and Beijing but now Luise and Jens Faurschou have turned their energies toward creating the Faurschou Foundation. Over the years they have built an impressive collection of Chinese contemporary art and now they want to focus on the collection’s development. Their collection will be shown in both spaces with curatorial themes. The current exhibition showcases important works from Ai Weiwei and Liu Wei. Liu Wei, Don’t Touc [..] > read more
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
Published on 2011-12-08 23:43:14
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 just concluded last week. Although sales were strong, there was very little Chinese contemporary art exhibited at the fair and only three Chinese galleries present. The three galleries are Long March from Beijing, ShangART from Shanghai and Vitamin Space from Guangzhou. The other galleries exhibiting Chinese contemporary art works were top Western galleries: Gagosian, Galerie Urs Meile and Mary Boone. Zeng Fanzhi at Gagosian Gallery The original Art Basel began in [..] > read more
Chen Fei at Today Art Museum 今日美术馆
Published on 2011-11-20 19:38:27
Part of the Post 80s generation and cartoon movement, Chen Fei 陈飞 is one of Star Gallery’s hottest rising talents. The Stranger opened last weekend at the Today Art Museum 今日美术馆. Although many of the works are created this year most of them are already sold. The catalogue boasts several famous collectors. Miracle, 170cm×130cm, Acrylics on Flax Canvas Viewing Chen Fei’s works are like going on a trip through his imagination. Most of his paintings feature his girlf [..] > read more
UNMASK solo show at H.T Gallery, Beijing
Published on 2011-11-18 00:56:55
UNMASK group is made up of Liu Zhan, Kuangjun and Tan Tianwei. They all met while students of the sculpture department at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Since 2001 and three artists have been working together in this collective. Popular in both the East and the West, UNMASK have strong design elements to their sculptures and installations. Flash Memory No. 8, 140×80×100cm, stainless steel, 2011 Their works are constantly evolving and each series is different from [..] > read more
Lu Fei Fei solo exhibition at Vision Art in 798
Published on 2011-10-31 21:57:02
Lu Fei Fei’s solo exhibition GAZE opened last week in Vision Art space in 798. Although Fei Fei is not a new artist on the Chinese contemporary art scene, she has not shown in 798 for years. This exhibition shows her earlier works dating from 2006-2008 and provides background for her new works which will be shown at a Contemporary Art Museum in Italy late this year. Her works are filled with social commentary on the current state of modern China and how the economic rise of China is [..] > read more
Xiang Jing at the Today Art Museum
Published on 2011-10-06 23:09:29
Xiang Jing, who is China’s most established female sculptor, currently has a solo show at the Today Art Museum that showcases her foray into storytelling. The exhibition is titled Will the World be okay? and consists of 14 new works under the themes of Acrobatics and Animal Expression. Xiang Jing is known for her realistic portrayals of a woman’s body and how she uses this form as a medium for thought and contemplation. In Acrobatics she has created several large scale sculpture [..] > read more