A woman lies prone upon an eerie, back-lit dark and ominous glass examination table. The hands of six men wearing crisp white shirts and black ties touch her naked, dot-infested body. It is unclear if she is ill, expired or resting. This photograph, Diagnose Series I, by Cheng Young is part of a series of […]

To artist Wang Youshen, the concept of communication forms the foundation of both his career and his way of creating art. In the “China Avant-Garde” exhibition, held in 1989, his collaborative works with Yang Jun, entitled “√,” were based upon the basic information carrier of the media—the photographic images from news sources. In order to […]

Chinese government city planners have imposed a physical and psychological revolution on their cities. In most cities of any size, old neighborhoods have been completely erased and replaced by buildings that the planners consider to be more worthy of a modern, first world nation. The erasure of traditional neighborhoods has resulted in the displacement of […]

The "Diversity in Form and Thought" exhibition offers a glimpse of the stream of contemporary Korean art since the 80s. The tendency of Korean art in this era shows respect for creative individuality and multifarious visual perceptions, breaking away from any ideologies in a culturally diverse, multiple world. This kind of art, due to its […]

Xue Tao, a talented and exciting young artist who was born in Yunnan in 1975 and graduated from the art department of the University of Suzhou in 1998, is just a little over 30 years old. He is part of a generation of artists that shows internationally and that creates the art it wants without […]

What is Hong Kong afraid of? Although all cities possess their own local anxieties, perhaps none are as vivid and consuming as those of Hong Kong. From the fading superstitions of old to the latest urban legends, Adrian Wong reflects on Hong Kong’s landscape of fear in this series of new works. Using sculpture, installation, […]

This 1918 ArtSPACE exhibition is comprised of a series of portraits relating to childhood and the collective nostalgia for the past. These images explore the selective and elusive quality of memory that shapes our histories and questions why we sometimes tend to recreate, rather than recall, our childhood. Some of these images are framed within […]

If we translate the Chinese title of this exhibition word for word (“Have fun, play” and “Gallery”), we come close to the above formula and title of this text. In English, the title is a slightly shorter thought than when translated into Chinese. The reason for this is simply that we came up with the […]

There is nothing remotely dark about Leah Tinari’s recent solo show, “We Could Definitely Run For the Presidency,” at Mixed Greens. The artist’s work here doesn’t tackle any major issues and it certainly doesn’t take itself a bit seriously. Since her graduation from RISD in 1998, Tinari has consistently depicted the people, objects and moments […]

Sometimes all it takes to make an already professional art world event even more serious is a big pink tent adorned with amateur art and condoms. The concept behind Gulay Alpay’s not so silk, Silk Room construction of wood, pink paint, condoms and plenty of brushes and paint palettes for the general public to take […]