The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney is hosting a solo exhibition of the Young Chinese artist Sun Xun. The show features some of the artist’s most important works along with some newspapers paintings and commissioned works. Beside MCA Curator Anna Davis had invited Sun Xun for a residency to create a large scale installation in view of the public during the first week of the exhibition. Image:© the artist Photograph: Jacquie Manning
“So Near Yet so Far”, is Ni Youyu’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, which showcases 12 pieces from the artist’s ongoing series of work. Among the artworks on display: Forest, Waterfall, Pagoda, Dust, Inches of Time and Freewheeling trip. Ni Youyu (b.1984) currently lives and works in Shanghai. He is graduated from Fine Art College of Shanghai University in 2007 where he was specialized in traditional Chinese painting. The exhibition is on view until July 14th. Featured image: Courtesy of the Artist and Perrotin
“Portraits and Wonders” is Hao Liang’s first solo exhibition in the United States, presented by Gagosian Gallery in New York from Jun 6th to June 23rd 2018. The show is featuring new works by the up-and -coming Chinese artist working in Traditional Chinese Ink Painting.
Li Shurui: LSR • Tendererest Affection” Li Shurui’s first solo exhibition in Paris, presents recent works alongside a video. The artist is showing a video work for the first time. Li Shurui is very well known for her paintings in which she explores the relationship between space and light, she began her “Lights” series in 2005 using airbrushing. Li continues to develop her concept of lights and space, and has gained important collectorship from around the world for her work.
Dong Dawei has for long wanted to record and exhibit his works’ development. At the occasion of Art Basel Hong Kong in the Insights project, he showed his works on paper along with the process’s video recordings next to each other, allowing the viewer to understand the long and complex process that was hided behind each composition. It’s all about process and timing, drawing every stroke one after another and bringing every stroke together, without no possibility of correction, it’s the same as calligraphy.
At Art Basel Hong Kong, I did some guided art tours on the theme of the emerging Chinese Artists, and especially the generation born between the beginning of the 70’s and the end of the 80’s. Here is a part of the artworks’ selection I made for the tours.
From giant installations and elusive sculptural pieces challenging everyday objects to powerful and other-worldly visual narratives, NOW celebrates female contemporary artists working in mainland China today. Among the artists shown in the programme: Na Buqi, Wi Chao, Ye Funa, Yang Guangnan, Ma Qiusha, Li Shurui, Luo Wei, Hu Xiaoyuan, Shen Xin, Yin Xiuzhen, Duan Jianyu and Geng Xue
This solo show, is like a ‘trial’ where Gao Lei’s artworks become ‘evidences’ linking each other driven by the clues artist sets forward in the exhibition, guiding to a valid or invalided ‘confession’. These clues act as the ‘enzyme’ activating the energies gathered during the formation of the artworks, changing the original context of creation, where finally a new ‘specialistic’ truth is produced as an outcome of catalytic reaction. All pictures courtesy of Gao Lei and Arario Gallery.
“Cold Nights” is an exhibition of newly commissioned work by artists Chen Zhou, Liu Shiyuan, Nabuqi, and Li Ran, curated by Boliang Shen and Zhanglun Dai. The curators invited the four artists, after reading the modern Chinese writer Ba Jin’s eponymous 1947 novel, “Cold Nights”, to play the roles of its four protagonists through their own artistic creation. Image courtesy: Nabuqi
The fifth edition of Art021 contemporary art fair took place last week in Shanghai, organized by Kelly Ying, David Chau, and Bao Yifeng, the fair presented a prestigious selection of galleries and artists. Here I bring you a quick look at some artworks by Chinese emerging artists that were on show. Image courtesy of Zhang Ding and ShanghArt Gallery
