First published in ART-iT. Text by Robin Peckham. I have not often bothered hiding my boredom with and occasionally even antipathy for the work of Li Hui, whose experiments with light often appear as uncritical and self-satisfied odes to the dazzling speed of modern technology. As often as not, these take the form of explosively [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Beijing Group Shows
Monday, April 26, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. After the Minsheng opening the Chinese art world decamped to Beijing for an ongoing two week block of art fairs and gallery openings, many of which chose to contextualize a vision of current art production far divorced from that simplistic narrative. “Jungle,” the latest group show [...]
Minsheng Musings
Monday, April 26, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art Minsheng Art Museum 570 West Huaihai Rd., Bldg. F, Red Town International Art Community, 200050 Shanghai, China, China April 19, 2010 – July 18, 2010 Last week saw the grand opening of the Minsheng Art Museum, an institution owned by [...]
Manners from Hangzhou
Monday, April 12, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. The History of Etiquette ifa gallery 621 Changde Road, 200040 Shanghai, China July 27, 2010 – July 27, 2010 The latest group exhibition at Ifa Gallery purports to explore the work of young Chinese artists as de facto social outsiders and critics of “etiquette,” here a [...]
Sister Act
Monday, April 12, 2010
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Parallel Worlds Osage Kwun Tong 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China March 27, 2010 – April 18, 2010 Having both studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, sisters Sara and Shirley Tse offer an interesting vision of the fracturing international art [...]
