David Spalding

Wang Luyan

Parkview Green

May 2013

Wang Luyan is Chinese contemporary art’s Zeno: He thrives on paradoxes. Even the title of Wang’s large-scale solo exhibition of recent work, “Diagramming Allegory,” suggests an internal contradiction. Housed primarily within two long… READ ON

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“New York, Interrupted”

December 2006

In a deliberate move to establish itself as a global art venue, Seoul’s PKM Gallery invited New Museum curator Dan Cameron to organize the inaugural exhibition at its new outpost in Beijing. “New York, Interrupted” offers Beijing … READ ON

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Chen Qiulin

August 2006

Since 1993, the Three Gorges Dam project has flooded thousands of villages along the Yangtze River, forcing the relocation of approximately 1.2 million people—the largest such migration in human history. Chen Qiulin, a young Chengdu-based … READ ON

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Wang Jianwei

April 2006

Wang Jianwei is one of Beijing’s most philosophically inclined artists. For his latest three-part installation, Relativism: A Flying Bird is Motionless, 2005, Wang uses video, digital photography, and sculpture to raise questions about … READ ON

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