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- Saffron Contemporary Middle East
- Eastern Art Report Monographs
- East Asia Journal Monographs
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Kwang Young Chun, new work and a memorable date
New work by Kwang Young Chun is the highlight of a triple event centred on London’s Bernard Jacobson Gallery even as some of the happenings are taking place thousands of miles away. The gallery exhibition (12 March – 17 April 2014) marks the artist’s 70th birthday and the publication in New York of a monograph, Mulberry Mindscapes, that references Chun’s innovative use of hanji mulberry paper and natural dyes indigenous to Korea and elsewhere. The new work in the gallery’s exhibition is from Chun’s Aggregation...
read moreOne up on the avant-garde
How time flies and its tangible and intangible outcomes linger around and sometimes sustain us. The October Gallery in London celebrates its 35th anniversary in April 2014 and, according to its founders, the date coincides with the birth of the transvangarde movement, writes SAJID RIZVI. The gallery lays claim to having coined the phrase, which means beyond — but also perhaps through — avant-garde in the widest sense possible. Art critics and art historians elsewhere also have pinned the flag of the transvangarde on their...
read moreYingmei Duan, Junebum Park and Sungfeel Yun at Art14
A group exhibition of three international artists with London’s Hanmi Gallery is one of the highlights of Art14 (28 February-2 March 2014). The works by Yingmei Duan, Junebum Park and Sungfeel Yun feature new media and installation works. Set in Motion, an exhibition which is part of the gallery’s presentation, explores the intricate and dynamic ideas of ceaseless movement in both the physical, and conceptual realms of current global contemporary art practices. Yingmei Duan will also participate in the ART14 Performance Programme....
read moreMogadishu: Lost Moderns
Mogadishu – Lost Moderns is a multimedia exhibition by architect Rashid Ali and photographer Andrew Cross opening 6 March 2014 at the Mosaic Rooms. It is also the first exhibition to explore Mogadishu through its architecture and urban environment, narrating the story of Somalia’s journey from traditional African nation via colonisation and post colonialism to emergent independent state.
read moreMauritshuis to reopen after refit
Mauritshuis, home of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in The Hague, Netherlands, will open 27 June 2014 following a major renovation, writes SAJID RIZVI. Celebrated both for its architectural beauty and its holdings — most famously the Vermeer masterpiece but also the so-called Royal Cabinet of Paintings, about 800-strong — the 17th century building and the small museum within will reopen after a major rehang and other revisions to the way it has offered its works to public view. Situated by the lakeside in the heart of The...
read moreThe game-changing message hidden in Botticelli’s Primavera
A new book, Under the Guise of Spring, by Eugene Lane-Spollen, argues for a game-changing message believed to be hidden in Sandro Botticelli’s universally important masterpiece, Primavera, writes SAJID RIZVI. Also known as Allegory of Spring, the tempera panel, about two metres tall and a little more than three metres wide, is currently housed in the Uffizi gallery in Florence. The painting generally is believed to have been started and completed during the Italian Renaissance, between the period 1477-1482. Primavera/Allegory of Spring has...
read moreMAK Vienna unveils Asian art reinstallation
The Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna unveiled its permanent collection of Asian art after its reinstallation following a concept and design by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata. The MAK Asia Collection is one of the most comprehensive and important European collections of art and applied arts from the Asiatic region. As of 19 February 2014, it will be presented in an exhibition gallery “conceived in a fundamentally new way,” MAK said. Selected artefacts from the museum’s collection are embedded in an artistic concept and...
read moreHandkerchiefs from Tohoku children
Yasashii Hankachi: Gentle Heart Project / Handkerchiefs for Tohoku Children, at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House galleries, is a creative response by children and collaborative designers in Japan to the devastation left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku (northeast) area of Japan, in which more than 18,000 people lost their lives and many more faced the difficulties of being relocated, leaving a strong impact on local communities. The exhibition centres on handkerchiefs created by children and graphic designers working in...
read moreEmina Djukič: The Burden of Freedom
Emina Djukič presents The Burden of Freedom, “a story about the life, chaos and similar things” 19 February-7 March 2014 at the Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia. In her most recent work Emina Djukić presents a photo story containing autobiographical reflections on seeking her own path in life and her own place under the sun, a curatorial statement from the gallery states. The core of the project is actually an artist book that shall be read and interpreted in a number of ways. It is a...
read morePainted Realities at Hanmi Gallery
Artists Olarn Chiaravanont, Bernat Daviu, Super Future Kid and Mark Nader present their work in a new show, Painted Realities, in the London Hanmi Gallery’s ongoing programme of interim exhibitions. A curatorial comment accompanying the exhibition (31st in the series, 7-16 February 2014) notes that as appropriation becomes a widespread ready resource for painters different strategies are needed to keep their work relevant amidst the apparent everyday excess of visual data. Themes of appropriation, authorship and identity are explored...
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