ChinaSquare Blog http://chinasquareny.com/blog News from the Gallery Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:47:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Lin Yan : Remaking / Shen Jingdong at Volta NY http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=408 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=408#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:47:52 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=408
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Shen Jingdong : HERO


Shen Jingdong’s 沈敬東 extensive press coverage during VoltaNY

NY Times Beyond the Armory
Art Cal A Sweet Revenge for Pop Art at Volta
Art Info Loud and Proud
Cool Hunting Shen Jingdong





Lin Yan : REMAKING at ChinaSquare
Extended through March 21st

“Lin has managed, through wit and a visionary interpretation of speech, to create a low-relief sculpture that refers simultaneously to American political and artistic history.”
To read the full article by Jonathan Goodman on artcritical.com click here



“Like many Chinese artists who have relocated to the US, the New York-based Lin Yan is interested in the experience of cultural displacement, and this is reflected in her work’s blend of Western art history and traditional Chinese references.”
To read the full article by Skye Sherwin on artreview.com click here

Lin Yan will be discussing her work at the China Institute on Tuesday March 10th. For more info click here

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]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=408 0 Group Exhibition: YOUTH http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=397 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=397#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:12:35 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=397 ChinaSquare Gallery is proud to present YOUTH, a group exhibition featuring 8 young artists,  Cai Weidong 蔡衛東, Guo Junfeng 郭俊峰, He Jie 何杰 , He Ju 何炬, Liu Bin 劉濱, Wu Jifeng 吳繼峰 , Yang Jing 楊靜, and Zhao Bo 趙博. From Cai Weidong’s use of the nude to Zhao Bao’s landscapes of solitude, YOUTH showcases China’s up and coming talent. Youth will be on view from January 6 to 31. A fully illustrated brochure accompanies the exhibition. For more information please contact info@chinasquareny.com

Great Tradition 2008-Pseudo-Classicism Series No. 2: Advertisement  The Year of Ren-Shen   Civil War-18 Arhats No.1

Solitude-McDonald No.3    Discovering the Water Cube 

 Painting in 81 Grids

2008.09.14    Landscape in a Box No. 4

]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=397 0 Xu Weixin 徐唯辛 Opening Reception http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=381 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=381#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:38:52 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=381 Celebrating Xu Weixin’s American Debut!

Renowned Artist Xu Weixin and Curator Robert C. Morgan

Carrie Clyne, Zoe Chiu, Alex Cao, Robert C. Morgan and Xu Weixin

Liu Xiaodong, Alex Cao and Xu Weixin

]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=381 0 PORTRAITS OF EMPTINESS: Xu Weixin’s Narrative of Post-Maoist China http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=380 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=380#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:46:18 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=380 Xu Weixin

XU WEIXIN
PORTRAITS OF EMPTINESS: Xu Weixin‘s Narrative of Post-Maoist China
Curated by Robert C. Morgan
November 6-29, 2008 / Opening Reception: November 6, 2008, 6:00-10:00 pm
ChinaSquare Gallery is proud to present Xu Weixin 徐唯辛: Portraits of Emptiness, Curated by Robert C. Morgan.

Please join ChinaSquare Gallery and Xu Weixin in celebrating the artist’s American debut at an opening reception on November 6th from 6-10 pm.

Xu Weixin‘s examination of the Cultural Revolution is a milestone in Chinese art.  Xu‘s monumental portraits force the viewer to challenge the conventional wisdom of forgetting the Cultural Revolution, ultimately making one acknowledge, confront, and reflect on such events.  The much acclaimed series, Chinese Historical Figures, 1966-1976, rendered in black and white, portrays the revolution’s chaos both openly and honestly, contrasting the bright glowing faces of propaganda art.  Also displayed in Portraits of Emptiness is work from Xu‘s Chronicle of Chinese Mining series which reveals and ponders humanitarian concerns. Xu sheds light on those who are overlooked, focusing on the everyday individuals, giving a voice to those who are otherwise lost to the collective mass.

Xu Weixin, arguably the leading realist painter in China, was born in Urumuqi in 1958.  A graduate of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts and the Zhejiang Academy of Art, he is now a professor at the Xu Beihong School of Arts at Renmin University. He has been featured in numerous museum shows including the Shanghai Art Museum, Beijing’s Today Art Museum and the National Art Museum of China.

A fully illustrated catalogue with a curatorial statement by Robert C. Morgan accompanies the exhibition. For more information please contact the gallery at info@chinasquareny.com.
]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=380 0 Scope London http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=392 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=392#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:46:04 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=392

]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=392 0 Cui Guotai: Opening Night http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=364 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=364#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:43:45 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=364 ChinaSquare held an opening for the Cui Guotai exhibition on Thursday, October 2, 2008.

]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=364 0 ArtCritical Review of Su Xinping’s Toasting Exhibition http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=361 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=361#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:46:26 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=361 “Art, it seems, can only do so much; and while it is hard to correctly read Su’s subversive views, he suggests that China’s great leap forward is not so remarkable as it seems. Dissonance wins out; as curator Judd Tully points out in his incisive essay, ‘It’s all very strange.’ The brutalized features of those sharing in the toast intimate violence, but at whose behest we don’t know.” – Excerpt from Jonathan Goodman’s review for ArtCritical.com

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]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=361 0 “Shirtless and Rowdy” Su Xinping exhibit featured at ArtINFO http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=356 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=356#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:32:43 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=356 Click the image below to be taken to ArtINFO’s article entitled “Shows to Start the New York Season.”  ChinaSquare’s Su Xinping exhibit is featured second in the slide show.  Read about Su Xinping’s “pauncy men” here:

]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=356 0 Guangci’s shiny Maos welcome visitors to Asia Society Exhibit http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=358 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=358#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:00:16 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=358 “Yet greeting visitors at ‘Art and China’s Revolution’ is ‘New Mao’ (2003), a grouping of three larger-than-life stainless-steel figurines of Mao, each with his arm raised and standing on a pedestal. Created by Chinese artist Qu Guangci (b. 1969), the figures are bland, illustrative likenesses, shining, highly polished, cookie-cutter sculptures, à la Jeff Koons, that were inspired by officially sanctioned Cult-of-Mao statues — a ‘New Mao’ that, like the old Mao, has no aesthetic merit.” – NY Sun

You can also see one of Guanci’s six “New Mao”s right now at ChinaSquare gallery.

Click the image to read the article…

]]> http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=358 0 Su Xinping: Opening Night http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=342 http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=342#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:13:20 +0000 admin http://chinasquareny.com/blog/?p=342 ChinaSquare held an opening for the Su Xinping exhibition entitled “Toasting” on Thursday, September 4, 2008. Here are a few pictures from the evening:

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