With the Olympics in China, I thought I would include this piece that I found on Chinese abstract. Zhao Wuji’s abstract painting Abstraction is the Product of Western Modernism bsent the birth of Western Modernism, there would have been no abstract art. For a brief period during the twentieth century, however, some scholars propounded the [...]
Contemporary art “to connect” to China
The new US embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others Jason Edward Kaufman Jeff Koons is lending his sculpture Tulips, an edition of which is shown here in the courtyard of the Nord/LB bank in Hanover, Germany, to the US embassy in [...]
Gunpowder artist blazes a trail for Asian market
From The Times November 27, 2007 Jane Macartney in Beijing A set of 14 abstract paintings made using gunpowder have become the most expensive works of contemporary Asian art to be sold at auction. An unidentified Asian art investor paid $9.5 million (£4.5 million) for the works, Set of 14 Drawings for Asia-Pacific [...]
Geng Jianyi
“I used to think that a completed artwork was like the completed act of taking a piss: when it’s finished it’s finished – you don’t go carrying the contents of the chamber pot around with you. But now things are different, you can’t just take a piss whenever you like anymore and be done with [...]
Xu Bing
Xu Bing was born in Chongqing, China in 1955 and grew up in Beijing. In 1975 he was relocated to the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution. In 1977 he enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing where he studied printmaking. He received an MFA from the Central Academy in [...]
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Opens in Beijing
The interior of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 798 District, Dashanzi here in northeast Beijing and the exterior of the UCCA featuring a large brick chimney soaring through the building to 164 feet above the ground which is a highly visible landmark and beacon for the arts district. / Courtesy of UCCA [...]
