Category Archives: Art
Anonymous Project
Yogyakarta-based artist Angki Purbandono’s Anonymous Project started during his three-month residency program at Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta) and Arthoteek (Denhaag) in 2006. He collected old photographs purchased from secondhand stores and conducted research into the photos’ history. Next, he transformed this images into zinc-made neon boxes and attached a collection of found photos on them, [...]
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Submission Call: mus-mus
Despite being all mysterious and having a weird name, the mus-mus team is looking for participants to take part in its experiment. On November 4th, 2008, Photographers around the world will make one single picture @600 (Internet Time). That’s 9:24 pm here (GMT +8) next Tuesday and if you are interested to be one of [...]
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SIPF Opening
© Ch’ng Yaohong One word to describe the SIPF opening today – amazing! It’s hard to see so many good works congregated in one area especially in Singapore and I was literally blown away by the quality I saw. There were so many good works on show that it’s hard for me to single out [...]
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Joel Yuen
Joel recently bagged the 27th UOB Painting of the Year competition with his body of work, Anatomical Fantasies of Meat. This generated quite a big wave of debate within our little island, where many felt that a photograph should not win the competition and that they are too grisly to be considered art. Parallels were [...]
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Germinators
Got this in my mail today for a visual art exhibition in New York. Unfortunately, I’m halfway across the globe! ChinaSquare Gallery New York is pleased to present Germinators, a group featuring Cao Jingping, Chen Wei, Li Jikai, Liao Yibai, Ma’chunfu, Qu Jiehen, Unmask, Wang Haiyang, Wang Tiantian, Wang Yaqiang, and Zhang Peng. Germinators includes [...]
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Hiroe Kobayashi
Hiroe Kobayash photographs visual poetry. She says: It is said that photography performed from the heart captures the truth. My quest is to cast light on the yuragi filtered through the layers of my experience. The end result is a world of mystery, images that conjure up the sumi-e ink drawings of Chinese painting. TOP [...]
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Ma Liang / Maleonn
Ma Liang shoots intriguing set pieces that question our perception of reality and life’s many facets. He was one of China’s leading commercial directors before trading that life for photography. Since then, he has received international acclaim for his fantastical, albeit heavily edited works. Little Flagman, 2008 © Ma Liang Nostalgia, 2006 © Ma Liang [...]
Also posted in China, Contemporary 10 Comments
Art+Commerce: Asian Edition
Jon Taplin wrote about how Asian economies are decoupling from the West, based on the record sales at the recent Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction of contemporary Chinese art. One of the great macro-economic debates is whether the rapidly growing Asian economies have decoupled from the recessionary problems of America. I have argued that they have, [...]
Zhang Peng
Zhang Peng photographs dolls with frozen expressions, against lush ambiguous backgrounds. With a background in painting, his images are striking to behold. Guifei, 2007 © Zhang Peng Red No. 3, 2007 © Zhang Peng Angel No. 1, 2006 © Zhang Peng Yi Fan No. 2, 2006 © Zhang Peng The artist on his works: In [...]
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Shadi Ghadirian