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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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The Singaporean artist Ming Wong (b. 1971) creates digital media installations that explore slippages in language, performativity and cross-cultural experiences through the appropriation of iconic moments in world cinema. In the interview, Ming Wong talks to us about Language and Identity.
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Mario García Torres has double personality, but he never suffers from schizophrenia. On the other hand, he integrates well the dual self and finds its exorcism in art. His work bears a weighty historical allusion but executed in a playful manner not without wit and humour.
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The Brussels gallery Jan Mot says he is “as mischievous as he is thoughtful”. Some magazines described him as a “branchitude” (trend-itude) artist from L.A. But today he is neither trendy nor mischievous… jetlag kills his charm and my questions on “history” makes him a serious school boy. Sitting in the café on the 6/F of Pompidou Centre, with a light yellow pullover around his neck and a white T-shirt that goes only with a pair of worn-out blue jeans, Mario García Torres enjoys the best view of Paris and the gentle sunshine of the early Parisian summer.
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Mobility, musicality, interactivity and simplicity. The biggest survey on the great American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) during his Paris years between 1929 and 1933 is currently in view at the Centre Pompidou. The show presents some 300 pieces, from early works and his parisian career.
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Taking Making Worlds as its title, the curator of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), Daniel Birnbaum, said that “a work of art represents a vision of the world and if taken seriously it can be seen as a way of making a world.” As an exhibition, it expresses the curator’s wish to emphasize the process of creation.
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