London’s China Visual Festival
This year’s edition of the annual Chinese Visual Festival in London is in full swing, offering audiences opportunities to get up to speed with new talent and new trends in Chinese cinema, from the mainland to countries and regions contiguous in cultural or historical terms. Mainstream moviegoers, having been introduced to Chinese cinema through circuitous routes including Hollywood and Hong Kong, are only now beginning to catch...
Paper in bloom: Zhuang Hong Yi’s make-believe world
Zhuang Hong Yi transports the viewer to three-dimensional floral tableaux vivants in an exhibition that needs to be seen up close to be appreciated for the artist’s exemplary skill and visual power, writes SAJID RIZVI. The selling show at Hua Gallery in London (19 March 2014 – 30 May 2014) also features Zhuang Hong Yi’s equally adept and exquisitely delicate manipulation of porcelain to produce works mounted on...
Wei Ligang: Chinese Palaces
Wei Ligang, one of the most significant Chinese talents creating contemporary ink art today, has been selected by Michael Goedhuis as the subject of a 2014 Asia Week New York exhibition 14 March – 22 March 2014 as the gallerist celebrates 25th anniversary of his work in the field in London, New York and elsewhere. Born in Datong, Shanxi, in 1964, Wei Ligang has been at the forefront of contemporary ink painting’s development from its...
‘Everything is possible’ for 4 London artists
Four international artists have got together for a London Hanmi Gallery exhibition, When Nothing is Sure, Everything is possible, 9-19 January 2014, writes SAJID RIZVI. Hanmi Gallery founder Heashin Kwak has been holding interim exhibitions, awaiting the gallery premises’ final refurbishment. This is her 29th interim exhibition and features yet another array of new artists waiting to be discovered for larger audiences. Two of...
Lindy Lee in Hong Kong
Australian artist Lindy Lee presents a new series of bronze and metal works at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong 16 October-16 November 2013. The exhibition is titled Universal Record of the Flame. The bronze fire stones have evolved from Lindy Lee’s ‘flung ink’ painting practice. The tradition of ‘flung ink’ is an ancient Chinese painting technique which is based on spontaneity. After a period of...
Cao Fei's zombie movie
Cao Fei is showing a new film, Haze and Fog, using her interpretation of the zombie movie genre to offer a commentary on changing China. In the film showing at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Arts, Manchester (26 October-7 December 2013) Cao Fei employs her work to examine intimate personal and cultural relationships in contemporary metropolitan China, exploring notions of class and value structures, powerlessness, the masses as a...