Lee Ambrozy
Lin Tianmiao
March 2013
Lin Tianmiao’s works, gathered here in her first retrospective, flesh out her evolving relationship with organic fibers while revealing that the sophisticated and collective processes by which she produces her sculptures and installations… READ ON
IN PRINT March 2013 [TOC]
“Summoning Ghosts: The Art Of Hung Liu”
January 2013
Curated by René de Guzman Hung Liu’s debut retrospective of more than eighty works will juxtapose her socialist-realist sketches from the 1970s, made while the artist was still living in China and at the height of the Cultural Revolution,… READ ON
PREVIEWS
Missing in Action
Ai Weiwei’s opening at the Hirshhorn
October 2012 WASHINGTON, DC
THE UNSPOKEN RULE of social engagements in Beijing dictates that the most important guests on the list are those who are invited but who cannot come, because another, more important engagement keeps them away. At the recent opening of Ai … READ ON
DIARY
Hu Xiangqian
Long March Space 长征空间
August 2012
At the core of Hu Xiangqian’s practice are his hypnotic performances, which reflect a vibrant sense of immediacy and humor. This is epitomized by his best-known work, Sun, 2008, a video of a two-month process during which the artist—nude… READ ON
PICKS
Jiang Zhi
Times Museum
June 2012
Although based in Beijing, Jiang Zhi trained at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and is associated with a generation of video artists (including Yang Fudong) who attended the school during the 1990s. In this midcareer retrospective, the… READ ON
PICKS
Sui Jianguo
June 2012
Sui Jianguo’s oeuvre illustrates a common dilemma for artists of his generation, a kind of dissociative identity disorder (aka multiple personality disorder) in both theory and practice. Although not billed as a retrospective, this was a … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2012 [TOC]
Days of Being Wild
The 5th Art HK
May 2012 HONG KONG
COMING FROM the Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, just thirty minutes across the border, I crossed the gold ingot–shaped Victoria Harbor into Hong Kong Central, where all those luxury brands unaffordable in Beijing are suddenly in arm’s reach.… READ ON
DIARY
“Little Movements”
January 2012
“Little Movements: Self-Practice in Contemporary Art” is an ongoing project initiated by curator and critic Carol Yinghua Lu and her husband, curator and artist Liu Ding. Because the endeavor encompasses so many ideas simultaneously and… READ ON
IN PRINT January 2012 [TOC]
Lee Ambrozy
December 2011
1 “My Communism: Poster Exhibition” (TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai; curated by Yang Zhenzhong, Zhou Xiaohu, Xu Zhen, Jin Feng, Lu Xinghua, Ding Li, Shi Qing, and Philippe Pirotte) The title of this show was left out of press … READ ON
