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- Tang Dixin is an artist and a curator.
COMFORTABLE AUCTION (group)
OVERVIEW
| Date | ... closedJul 15, 2011 - Aug 31, 2011 |
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Shanghai Gallery of Art (Shanghai, China) |
| Artist(s) | The Comfortable Collective |
| Organizer(s) |
Shanghai Gallery of Art (Shanghai, China) |
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EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
About Comfortable AuctionThe Comfortable Collective, initiated by the artist Jin Shan in 2008, is a project-based group with varying artists participating in each incarnation. A humorous approach and a propensity to bring social, cultural and economic themes down to a more intimate dimension are common to the group’s manifestations. For their first project Comfortable subtly critiqued the prevalent art market fervor. They rented an apartment in Shanghai altered it with artworks, and thus reframed audience expectations of where art is located and what it is. For its second iteration, Comfortable participated in the X Baltica Triennial in Vilnius, Lithuania. For one month the collective inhabited a local home creating works that investigated Lithuania’s fraught relationship with its communist past. In 2010, the Van Abbe Museum and Art Hub Asia invited Comfortable to interact with works from their collection in the exhibition ‘Double Infinity’. The collective came up with several humorous and revealing renditions of the Van Abbe’s prestigious collection.
The fourth manifestation of Comfortable is composed of artists: Jin Shan, Tang Dixin, Gao Mingyan, Maya Kramer and Girolamo Marri. In the Shanghai Gallery of Art Project Space they will stage their own version of an art auction. In recent years the contemporary art market has undergone a considerable structural readjustment as auction houses have risen in power to match those of galleries and private dealers. This has subsequently effected the perception and production of art. By re-creating this inherently dramatic event in a playful way, Comfortable tries to expose the mechanisms which have now become routine in the art world, and gives the audience a chance to scrutinize the assumptions underlying these now accepted tropes.
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MISCELLANEOUS (9)
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2011(8)
- Comfortable Auction (artist, group)2011.07.15 - 2011.08.31
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Shanghai Gallery of Art
participating as The Comfortable Collective(1)(17)(1) - TOP Events (artist, group)2011.07.04 - 2011.07.31
... closed
TOP Contemporary Art Center(1)(130) - Join in The Fun (artist, group)2011.05.21 - 2011.06.26
... closed
Vanguard Gallery(14) - Vanguard Gallery@China International Gallery Exposition 2011 (artist, art fair)2011.04.21 - 2011.04.24
... closed
China World Trade Center - Decor (artist, group)2011.04.17 - 2011.05.16
... closed
Arrow Factory(1)(1) - Taking the Stage OVER - Re-performing History (artist, group)2011.03.19 - 2011.03.19
... closed
18 Gallery (Shanghai)(1)(90)(1) - Yun Lang Project (artist/artist, group)2011.03.06 - 2011.04.10
... closed
Aike-DellArco (Shanghai)(1)(85)(36) - At Sixes & Sevens (artist, group)2011.03.05 - 2011.04.02
... closed
M50 Creative Space(7)
2010(11)
- Reflection of Minds MoCA Envisage Biennale (artist, group)2010.09.12 - 2010.10.08
... closed
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai(1)(89)(2)(3) - OV Gallery Group Show (artist, group)
2010.08.07 - 2010.09.05... closed
Oriental Vista Gallery - Mindless but pleased (artist, group)2010.08.01 - 2010.08.07
... closed
Shift Station@Cool Dock(1)(49)(4) - Use the Hand do the Job – Proposal Bazaar (artist, group)2010.07.10 - 2010.07.20
... closed
Shift Station@Cool Dock(1)(35) - The Youth Sale Store - Alternative Thinking in Alternative Situations (artist, group)2010.06.26 - 2010.08.30
... closed
Pekin Fine Arts(1) - Dail Y - Describe An Intuition Liberaliza Yourself (artist, group)2010.06.19 - 2010.07.19
... closed
(1)(23) - In the Blink of an Eye (artist, group)2010.06.18 - 2010.07.25
... closed
Vanguard Gallery(1)(9) - TORA TORA TORA: Chinese Cutting-Edge Photography Exhibition (artist, group)2010.04.17 - 2010.06.30
... closed
Caochangdi PhotoSpring(8) - OV Gallery Group Show (artist, group)2010.03.27 - 2010.05.15
... closed
Oriental Vista Gallery(1)(15) - Blography (artist, group)2010.01.23 - 2010.03.07
... closed
Osage Gallery Limited (Hongkong)(1)(117)(15) - Care To Dance? (artist, group)2010.01.08 - 2010.03.07
... closed
Vanguard Gallery(1)(13)
2009(7)
- The Youth Sale Store (artist, group)2009.12.05 - 2010.01.03
... closed
M50 Creative Space(1)(44)(1) - Urban stories - Contemporary Artists Exploring Vilnius City (artist, intl event)2009.09.25 - 2009.11.22
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(1) - Vanishing (artist, group)2009.07.18 - 2009.08.16
... closed
ddmwarehouse(1)(42)(63) - The mARkeT Summer 2009 - In the Making (artist, group)2009.07.04 - 2009.07.12
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Beijing Center for the Arts(1)(95)(1) - Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition (artist, group)2009.05.30 - 2009.07.20
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Osage Gallery Limited (Shanghai)(1)(26)(56) - Street Gallery (curator, solo)2009.05 - 2009
... closed
- Intrude: Art & Life 366 (artist, group)2009.01.18 - 2009.04.26
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Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art(1)
2008(4)
- Showtime (artist, group)2008.11.03 - 2008.11.03
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ddmwarehouse(3)(26) - Comfortable - Contemporary Art Exhibition (artist, group)2008.09.06 - 2008.09.15
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(22) - Shanghai-Beijing (artist, solo)2008.05.05 - 2008.05.05
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Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Shanghai-Beijing(1) - Safety First (curator, group)2008.03.16 - 2008.03.23
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Fei Contemporary Art Center(1)(11)(18)
2007(1)
- FCA - 129FCA-129 Guest (artist, group)2007.07.07 - 2007.07.14
... closed
Fei Contemporary Art Center(9)
2006(1)
- Shanghai Duolun Exhibition of Young Artists (curator, group)2006.09.05 - 2006.10.20
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Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art(1)
