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Hans-Peter Feldmann insists that he’s not an artist. He dislikes such labels, because for him, the so call “Art” is simply part of the everyday life, nothing more nothing less. Text by Selina Ting, 2011 Spring, Berlin Born in 1941 in Dusseldorf, Germany, Feldmann started cutting and collecting pictures from books and magazines at the…
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One of the most dynamic and experimental Chinese painters in the international art scene, Yan Pei Ming is particularly known for his epic size paintings of iconic figures, Mao Zedong, Bruce Lee, Obama, and his father and self-portraits. His expressive style and controlled palette reflect a connection to the aesthetic and cultural climate of China…
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The paintings of Li Fang look familiar. Yet this familiarity is deeply infused with an intangible, uncanny mood. Moving away from her well-received depiction of the ephemeral presence of urban passers-by, Li Fang’s recent work concentrates on the more subtle psychological activities of individuals. Based on photos of her family and acquaintances, Li Fang captures…
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Elke Krystufek’s work is highly controversial. She is entrenched in the idiosyncratic struggle between sex, art and money. Her work warns that when a portion of the triad breaks down the remnants are left to fend for themselves. In the interview, Elke Krystufek talks with us about Female Sexuality and Social Taboo.
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In late June, Chen Qiulin (b. 1975) flew to New York to prepare for her second solo show in one of the most important galleries in New York, Max Protetch Gallery. On view for the first time was a series of new photographs and videos document rituals being carried out by two couples, and more importantly, is a series of new figurative papier-mache sculptures
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Selina Ting Oct 2009 In the Russian Pavilion, Andrei Molodkin (b. 1966) is showing alongside 6 compatriots, Pavel Pepperstein, Alexey Kallima, Irina Korina, Gosha Ostretsov, Anatoly Shuravlev and Sergei Shekhovtsov. Entitled “The Victory over the Future”, a name borrowed from a futurist opera “Victory over the Sun” in 1913 which was an omen of impending…
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Sade for Sade’s Sake (2009), a three-channel animation projection that Paul Chan (b. 1973) presented for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia this year, depicts shadow-like human bodies in physical movement. These figures talk, argue, and plea with one another, walk and crawl, beaten and whipped, and engaged in sexual activities and religious rituals. Interspersed among them…
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In Venice, the young artist from Lithuania is conquering the senses of visitors by offering an ultimate sensual experience to them. The New York-based artist Zilvinas Kempinas (b. 1969) present his new installation Tube (2008) in the Lithuania Pavilion at the renaissance building Scuole Grande della Misericordia. Tube, made of videotape, looks more like a translucent tunnel of parallel lines, invites visitors to walk through it, to experience “a new sense of space and one’s body in a moment of time.”
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This is the 3rd participation of Hong Kong in the Venice Biennale as a collateral event. While the success of the tiny city as a global financial hub begins with the generation of our parents, Hong Kong’s presence in the international art scene is as fresh and abstract as vapour, passed unnoticed. In the Biennale,…
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