20 MOST RECENT

• Confession from the Artist Jia Jing (critique)

  The audience has a feeling of violence in aesthetics when an idea is fiercely and urgently expressed. The cautions or the ethical judgments have been weakened seemingly by this feeling of violence; however, this selection of...

• The Artworks of Jia Jing He Guiyan (critique)

  Most of the early works of Jia Jing describe the scenes related to wars. The artists' sensitivity to wars is not only because they want to present the great miseries the wars bring to the human...

• Works by Wang Nanfei: From Near Distance to Far Distance Wang Nanmin (critique, 2008)

  “The Fear of Overlook” is the title of artist Wang Nanfei’s retrospective exhibition showing her works of the past ten years; it’s also a themed exhibition of her new works I decided to explore during 2008,...

• Confession from the Artist Wang Nanfei (media, 2011)

  The concept for most of my works is derived from the constant transformation of a city. People’s daily lives and their ambient are the dominant theme of my artworks, even in time they are overshadowed by...

• Dolls: Narration and Metephors - About Li Guo's Paintings Lu Mingjun (critique)

  With elements of "cartoons", Li Guo's paintings are viewed as works of cartoon generation or post-cartoon generation by many critics. But this rough classification based on patterns and symbols fails to reveal layers in his art...

• Goddamned Shanghai (critique)

  "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily." - Marlene Dietrich To the missionaries who stumbled green-faced and wobble-kneed off the bumboats in 1930s Shanghai, the city must have seemed a hellhole...

• Holding Your Breath For The Reveal - The Contemporary Magic of Ying Yefu Martin Kemble (critique, 2011)

  Like many things in the new China, Ying Yefu’s paintings have evolved very quickly. In just four solo shows held at ART LABOR and a swath of group exhibitions both here and abroad during the past...

• Who are Who Qiu Minye (critique)

  How much humanity is lost in times? When we talk about shortage, what are we talking about? There is no absolute happiness, nor absolute hardship; what else can we possess then? How can this moment turn...

• Children’s Clothes Chen Haiyan (critique)

  When a garment is no longer an accessory to human body decoration, what is a garment in an artist’s eyes? Apparently, children’s clothes are an interesting and meaningful subject. In garment design, a child’s garment is one...

• "No Limitations" - A Conversation between Yin Ji’nan and Teng Fei (2011-09-27) Yin Jinan (interview)

  Teng Fei: When I was in school in the 1980s, you once told me my way of pronunciation was in fashion, and more people were beginning to talk that way. Yin Jinan: Yes, with a little southern...

• Jewellery As A Contemporarary Art Practice Jiang Yuehong (critique, 2011)

  Our obsession with finding a context for and relationship between the flow and logic in an artist’s practices leaves us at a loss for words yet eager when we encounter Teng Fei’s variety of art practices:...

• A Life Shouted Aloud from “细软xìruǎn” Lv Shengzhong (critique)

  I. When I look at Teng Fei’s jewelry, the meticulously textured pieces steal silently into the bottom of my heart and inspire wonder. Jewelry--the delicate craftwork, the exquisite textures--has always been a quiet but vibrant feminine adornment, a...

• Facing the Community of Brainwash: Augustin Tzen’s One-Man Battle Gu Zhenqing (critique)

  As globe-trotting artist Augsitin Tzen sees it, under globalization, the ideological machineries of the world’s nations are in overdrive, creating a ubiquitous, pervasive and all-conquering community of brainwash. The twenty-first century is a century of technological...

• Chasing Shooting Star in the Dark Sun Xiaocheng (critique)

  Looking up to the sky, we see a shooting star flashes through the air; lowering our heads, we make a vow to God. This beautiful short moment like a magic, the last dancing of the butterfly in...

• Harvest and Journey Lv Pinchang (critique)

  Time flies, a new year is coming. I still remember when I visited Xiaochen’s personal works exhibition last year, several “old cameras” showed their charms beyond the time-space on the hall and brought the audience to...

• Why Should We Ask the History? - Re-evaluation of Sun Xiaochen's Works Gao Ling (critique, 2011)

  China's saint Confucius has a famous saying "time passes by without a break like the flowing river" which means that the ancient Chinese likened time to a river and they standing on the bank have feeling...

• Different Routes to Some Goal - Look on “Kacha” Fang Zhiyuan (critique)

  By Fang Zhiyuan (famous historian, cultural scholar and main speaker of “Lecture Room” on Emperors Jiajing and Wanli) I and Xiaochen are good friends despite difference in ages. In June 2010, I was taken aback when I heard...

• Insight Zhao Li (critique)

  By Zhao Li, Professor of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, commenter and planner In 2009 Sun Xiaochen created the series “Kacha” which took “old cameras” as the object of representation and also involved relevant subject such...

• Polaroid Series - Julian Schnabel Solo Exibition (critique)

  Known as an artist and film director, Julian Schnabel, presents a unique set of large format Polaroids he has been taking since 2002 using a twenty by twenty-four inch 6 meter Land camera made in the...

• Growing Up - Exhibition celebrating SWFC 3rd & ShanghART Gallery 15th Anniversary Lu Leiping (critique, 2011)

  Initiated in 1996, ShanghART Gallery has been dedicated into Chinese contemporary art over the course of past fifteen years. The recollection is as vivid as always that Lorenz Helbling from Switzerland rode his bicycle along the...