 By FABIOLA SANTIAGO Published: December 4, 2009 |
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Art Review You don't have to be a connoisseur or recite art history to revel in the annual art invasion otherwise known as Art Basel Miami Beach and its surrounding 19 satellite art fairs. Simply put, we live in an artful and art-full paradise. It may sound corny, but at its best, art inspires, provokes, educates, surprises, shocks and delights. So put on some comfortable walking shoes and revel in the images. Here's a Miami Herald staff selection of don't-miss works to help you navigate the mayhem of too many shows, too little time: At ChinaSquare Gallery in Art Miami, pixelated images by Alex Guofeng Cao appear to be huge photographs. But look closely and you'll see that the "pixels" are really tiny photographic images. The portrait of President Barack Obama is made up of photos of President Abraham Lincoln; Marilyn Monroe is composed of tiny images of JFK; JFK of tiny images of Monroe. Sold opening night: An image of Carla Bruni, made up of tiny images of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. |
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 By FABIOLA SANTIAGO Published: December 4, 2009 |
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Art Review No hay quer un conocedor ni un experto en historia del arte para disfrutar de esa invasión artística anual conocida como Art Basel Miami Beach y sus 19 ferias artísticas satélites. Para decirlo simplemente, es un verdadero paraíso artístico. No será nada nuevo pero, en su mejor forma, el arte nos inspira, provoca, educa y sorprende con enorme fuerza. Así que póngase unos zapatos cómodos y vaya a disfrutar de las imágenes. He aquí una selección hecha por personal del Herald sobre los trabajos indispensables, que lo ayudarán a navegar el exceso de oferrtas y la escasez de tiempo. En la ChinaSquare Gallery en Art Miami, pixeladas imágenes de Alex Guofeng Cao parecen enormes fotografías. Pero, cuando se miran de cerca, se ve que los "pixeles'' son, en realidad, diminutas fotografías. El retrato del presidente Obama está hecho de fotos de Abraham Lincoln; Marilyn Monroe esta compuestas por minúsculas fotos de JFK y JFK está hecho de minúsculas imágenes de Monroe. En la noche inaugural se vendió una imagen de Carla Bruni, compuesta de diminutas imágenes del presidente de Francia Nicolás Sakozy. |
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 By Aimee Walleston Published: October 3, 2009 |
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Art Review The career of painter Ai Jing isn't as the MFA-approved path—although her pedigree features a nationwide scandal that many young, press-hungry artists might welcome. Ai's first career was as a beloved pop singer in Mainland China, where she was born. After a string of successful records, the artist released a controversial track, "Made in China," that was banned by the Chinese government. Read More |
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By Edward Leffingwell Published: September, 2008 |
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Art Review With its dense impasto-as though extuded from massive tubes. Read More |
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By Jonathan Goodman |
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Art Review Lin Yan is the third generation of Chinese female artists in her family to go abroad to study—she is a graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, and L’Ecole national superieur des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Read More |
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By Skye Sherwin |
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Art Review 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. Read More |
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Published: February, 2009 |
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Art Review 隨著華爾街金融危機寒流襲來，紐約的藝術界也感到陣陣寒意。位於雀喜25街藝術大廈的紐約中國廣場畫廊藉林延個展【再造】，給紐約寒冷的藝術冬天增添一股暖流，開幕當天零下10度的氣溫沒能阻擋人們的熱情，畫廊內人們相互交流，高聲談笑，肆意地流露出對春天的渴望。 Read More |
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By Greg Afinogenov Published: November 13, 2008 Visit Artcal website Read Article |
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Art Review Much ink has been spilled recently over the question of the economic crisis. There are some who want it to be a watershed, a sign that civilization can really break itself out of its contemporary dead end. Read More |
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Visit World Journal website Read Article |
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Art Review 「中國廣場」畫廊負責人Alex指出，徐唯辛的肖像創作為中國美術發展奠定了重要里程碑，他藉由描繪文化大革命時期重要人物的肖像，喚起觀者對此歷史事件的批判與省思。 Read More |
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By Kontaktieren Visit China Historical Figures website Read Article |
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Art Review „Ich schreibe, weil ich Dinge zu sagen habe. Ich publiziere, weil ich eine Schuld abzuzahlen habe. Die zehn Jahre dauernde Katastrophe hat einige Menschen verstummen lassen, während dagegen die zehn Jahre dauernde Blutschuld die Stummen dazu veranlasste wiederholt aufzuschreien.” Read More |
By Andrzej Lawn Published: October, 2008 Visit Yishu website Read Article |
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Art Review You can almost feel the weight of the imagery pressing down on you when confronted with Cui Guotai's recent expressionist paintings at China Square Gallery. Upon entering the gallery, Guotai's 7' by 24' painting entitled National Celebration looms over the viewer. Read More |
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By Helena Fang for AIA Published: October 8, 2008 Visit AsiansinAmerica.com website Read Article |
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Art Review As you cross 10th Ave., 25th St. may seem like an industrial and barren street but tucked away in these buildings is NY’s largest collection of international art. Read More |
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By Lance Esplund Published: September 4, 2008 Visit NewYorkSun.com website Read Article |
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Art Review 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. Read More |
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By Jonathan Goodman Published: September, 2008 Visit artcritical.com website Read Article |
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Art Review The premise of Su Xinping’s show, entitled “Toasting,” is allegorical in its striking but troubled imagery of bare-chested men lifting glasses in an atmosphere of post-apocalyptic emptiness. Read More |
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By Robert Ayers Published: September 8, 2008 Visit Artinfo.com website Read Article |
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Art Review NEW YORK—Summer in New York City can be a delightful time of year, but if it’s the contemporary art scene that you live for, then it’s the first week of September when the city regains its real vitality. This year is no different, with dozens of gallery and museum shows of every variety opening all over town. Read More |
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By Celine Chen Published: September 6, 2008 Visit CHINA.ORG.CN website Read Article |
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Art Review In a very dark room, an overhead projector presents a birds-eye view of twelve cardboard boxes piled together like eggs in a nest, accompanied by the sound of children giggling, crying, and talking. A hand suddenly reaches out from one of the boxes and then the cover of another one opens. Read More |
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Published: September 5, 2008 Visit ARTRON website Read Article |
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Art Review At Art Taipei 2008, ChinaSqure has brought the prominent artists’ works from Chinese contemporary art scene in their first debute, such as Ye Yongqing, Mao Yan, and Su Xinping. Read More |
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Published: August 21, 2008 Visit ARTRON website Read Article |
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Art Review Art Taipei, whose former name is Taipei Art Fair International, is the most long-standing art fair in Asia. Since 1992, on the demanding from both galleries and collectors, Art Taipei has been organized by Art Galleries Association for 14 years. In Art Taipei 2008, there are more than 110 galleries, including 48 internatioal galleries from all over the world. Read More |
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By Emma Pearse Published: August 26, 2008 Visit New York Magazine website Read Article |
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Art Candy Shen Jingdong, who served for sixteen years in the Chinese military, merges Pop Art with Marxist propaganda (is there a difference?). Past exhibitions of his have, unsurprisingly, been banned in China, but his shiny, happy people — Mao's smiley army are playful yet brittle — are still collected the world over. See his latest exhibit at ChinaSquare through Saturday. -Emma Pearse |
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By Rohin Guha Published: August 6, 2008 Visit blackbook.com website Read Article |
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Art Review The art of Nanjing-born Shen Jingdong may just be the pinnacle of communist chic -- and one of the trendier pop-political crossovers since the misappropriation of the keffiyeh. Read More |
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Published: July 31, 2008 Visit tom.com website Read Article |
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Art Review 據紐約style file報導，儘管天氣悶熱，7月28號，藝術愛好者們因為SCOPE藝術博覽會而聚集在漢普敦。為了為期四天的博覽會，East Hampton Studios變成了來自15個國家40多家畫廊藝術展示的場地。來自英國南安普敦的Keszler Gallery呈現的展品是博覽會的亮點... Read More |
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By Karen Bookatz Published: July 28, 2008 Visit Style.com website Read Article |
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Art Review Muggy weather notwithstanding, art lovers flocked to the Hamptons by the Jitney-loads this weekend to attend the SCOPE Art Fair. For four art-filled days, East Hampton Studios was transformed into a spacious arrangement of stalls featuring more than 40 galleries from 15 countries. Read More |
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By ArtZineChina Published: April, 2008 Visit ARTZINE website Read Article |
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Profiles | Alex Cao: Working on Dream Alex Cao, the founder of China Square Gallery in New York, was a well-known New York fashion photographer before turning his eye to Chinese contemporary Art. Now, he is running a major art gallery in the heart of New Yorks’ thriving arts district in Chelsea... Read More |
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By Benjamin Genocchio Published: December 14, 2007 Visit New York Times website Read Article |
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By Rachel Wolff Published: February 1, 2008 Visit New York Magazine web-site Read Article |
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Published: May, 2008 Visit Yishu website Download PDF file |
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Cover & Review Nonexistent Reality A Discussion between Li Xianting and Ye Yongqing Ye Yongqing: I don't like to organize documents. My past documents and objects are just piled up in boxes in my Chongqing and Kunming homes.Download PDF file |
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典藏今藝術雜誌 April 2008 Download PDF file |
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Cover & Review Ye Yongqing - The Ideology of a Birdman for His Art 葉永青: 用思想作畫的鳥人 by Victoria Lu 陸蓉之 Download PDF file |
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世界藝術雜誌 issue 69, March 2008 Download PDF file |
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Cover & Review A Legend of Marshal Ye 葉帥傳奇 by Liu Jia 劉佳 Download PDF file |
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By KEN JOHNSON Published: November 10, 2007 Visit New York Times web-site Read Article |
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Art Review It’s Asian Work, but Abandon the Stereotypes Before Entering the Booths Two young, bald Asian women in Western-style clothes are horsing around. One points her finger at the head of the other, who scrunches up her face as if bracing for a bullet... |
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By Eric C. Shiner Published: December, 2007 Visit Yishu web-site Download PDF file |
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By Leigh Anne Miller Published: May, 2008 |
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Art Review Bridge A huge painting by Zhong Biao - at nealy 10 by 13 feet, it is Zhong's largest single-canvas work to date - dominated ChinaSquare's booth ( New York and Beijing) . Titled The Sky of Us-8, it depicts an oversize man sleeping on a couch, his bare feet pushed into the foreground; to his left, a group of tourists walks past a framed black-and-white painting of a cloudy sky. |
By Jonathan Goodman Published: April, 2008 Visit Sculpture Magazine web-site Read Article |
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Art Review Xiang Jing and Guangci A married couple, Xiang Jing and Guangci share an interest in making sculpture; however, their styles are completely different.Read More |
October 2007 Visit The Village VOICE web-site |
Chinese sculptor Guangci's politcal works are life-size armies of Mao Tse-tungs. Jing presents life-size sculptures exploring the plight of the post-feminist woman. | |
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October 2007 Visit New York Magazine website |
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Guangci At ChinaSquare through October 27 Pop meets the terra-cotta army: Contemporary Chinese sculptor Guangci riffs on his country’s former dictator (and one of Andy Warhol’s favorite subjects), constructing life-size fleets of painted-fiberglass and stainless-steel Maos. |
October 2007 Visit Panashe website |
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Art Review She & I, Sculpture of Xiang Jing and Guangci Curated by Gao Shiming and Lilly Wei ChinaSquare proudly presents, She & I: Sculpture of Xiang Jing and Guangci, curated by Gao Shiming and Lilly Wei. On view from Sept. 7 through Nov. 15, the life-sized pieces explore and narrate Chinese cultural discourse. Both Xiang Jing’s and Guangci’s work, made of industrial strength synthetic materials, investigate the social and political changes surrounding China. |
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By RACHEL WOLFF Published: September 18, 2007 Visit New York Magazine website Read Article |
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Contemporary Chinese Art By Peggy Roalf August 16, 2007 Read Article |
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 By Kristina Feliciano June 02, 2007 Read Article |
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Art Review China's Fine Art Boom |
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Published: May 7, 2007 Visit ARTINFO website Read Article |
The exhibition presents an eye-opening, provocative look at Chinese contemporary photography, with work from more than 50 artists, including Ai Weiwei, Cui Xiuwen, Ma Liuming, Sheng Qi, Wang Qingsong and Zheng Lianjie. Read More |
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