Author Archives: jolanta
Rijin Wu
The works of City series, based on Wolf Totem’s spiritual thinking and predicative expression of human being’s living situation and Chinese contemporary culture… Rijin Wu The works of City series, based on Wolf Totem’s spiritual thinking and predicative expression of human being’s living situation and Chinese contemporary culture, is the interpretation of spiritual nomadism.
Pengye Zhang
Zhang Pengye’s “Bicycle” group, is an image of China’s economic development. It is a picture of the Chinese grassroots… Pengye Zhang Zhang Pengye’s “Bicycle” group, is an image of China’s economic development. It is a picture of the Chinese grassroots, an endless part of life, with no clear beginning or end. Although “Bicycle” expresses […]
Pengye Zhang
Zhang Pengye’s “Bicycle” group, is an image of China’s economic development. It is a picture of the Chinese grassroots… Pengye Zhang Zhang Pengye’s “Bicycle” group, is an image of China’s economic development. It is a picture of the Chinese grassroots, an endless part of life, with no clear beginning or end. Although “Bicycle” expresses […]
Pengye Zhang
Zhang Pengye’s “Bicycle” group, is an image of China’s economic development. It is a picture of the Chinese grassroots… Pengye Zhang Zhang Pengye’s “Bicycle” group, is an image of China’s economic development. It is a picture of the Chinese grassroots, an endless part of life, with no clear beginning or end. Although “Bicycle” expresses […]
Pleased to Meet You: KimSu Theiler at White Dot Studio, New York – Aaron Yassin
Let Me Introduce Myself is the second line of an email KimSu Thelier received earlier this year from someone claiming to be her younger half-brother in South Korea that she never knew she had. It is the first in a series of five email messages that inspired Thelier’s installation at the White Dot Gallery on […]
The Remains of the Day
Ulrike Münter on Xia Xing In 2004, Chinese artist Xia Xing (born in 1974 in Shihezi, Xinjiang province, now living in Beijing) started a picture chronicle, wherein he paints from front-page photographs from issues of Xin Jingbao (New Beijing News, published since November 2003). These photographs, reporting about remarkable events—more or less faithfully to details—are […]
The Lord of the Flies
Jade Franklin on Guo Wei Born in 1960, Guo Wei was six years old when Mao Zedong declared his campaign to rid China of “bourgeois liberalism”—that infamous period in Chinese history known as the Cultural Revolution. He was alive during the material shortages, the dictated restrictions, and the ever-present apprehension that characterized this time, but […]
Werner Dorsch
German artist Werner Dorsch plays with geometrics and the square. His work fuses styles of Concrete art and Op art. German artist Werner Dorsch plays with geometrics and the square. His work fuses styles of Concrete art and Op art. Having exhibited across the globe, Dorsch hails international acclaim. Still, he makes note […]
Fei Chen
It was in 2003 that I began to work on the “Beyond Satisfaction” series. By that time, a drastic societal change had taken place throughout China Fei Chan It was in 2003 that I began to work on the “Beyond Satisfaction” series. By that time, a drastic societal change had taken place throughout China, one […]
Urban Sprawl
Jane Tippet on Tu Hongtao What is the essence of contemporary Chinese art? Is there such a thing as a fundamental core in this ever-changing and evolving genre? In 2005, the iconic artist Yue Minjun asserted, “Modern Chinese art devotes most of its attention to reality. And as almost every artist reaches out his antennae […]
