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Edward Sanderson
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Pedestrian Potentialities?
by Edward Sanderson
Jia Aili, Xiao Bo, Wu Guangyu, Liao Guohe, Xiao Jiang, Bi Jianye, Ma Ke, Huang Liang, Qin Qi, Li Qing, Xu Ruotao, Jin Shan, Lin Yen Wei, LIU Weijian, Sun Wen, Qi Wenzhang, Sun Xun, Zhou Yilun, Song Yuanyuan at Platform China
March 12th, 2011 - May 31st, 2011
Posted
4/4/11
Over the last few years Platform China has established a strong programme of shows that display refreshing latitude with respect to exhibition formats and presentation of artworks.
Two highlights from last year included the extravagant group show “Jungle” and “The Third Party”. The former expansive exhibition continually refreshed itself over its two-month run, inviting the starting artists to adapt their installations and also bringing in new artists later in the exhibition. In what s... [more]
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Beyond Technicalities
by Edward Sanderson
Zhuang Hui, Chen Shaoxiong, Leng Wen, Yan Xing, Lu Zhengyuan at Pékin Fine Arts (Beijing)
January 15th, 2011 - April 18th, 2011
Posted
3/21/11
Curated group shows reveal the hand of the curator in a public display of the thinking and working process: in some cases the curator may take a back seat; in others, be extremely visible. Curator Carol Yinghua Lu has consistently taken the latter approach, and her group show You Are Not a Gadget at Pékin Fine Arts, serves as a point at which to analyze the results.
Building on the work of practitioners such as writer and curator Jens Hoffmann and art historian Hans Belting, Lu has developed a cur... [more]
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Private Philosophies
by Edward Sanderson
Yu Bogong at WHITE SPACE BEIJING
January 9th, 2011 - March 27th, 2011
Posted
3/21/11
In my review of You Are Not A Gadget (at Pékin Fine Arts), curated by Carol Yinghua Lu, I focused on the connection of that show to Lu’s work in general, and mentioned Yu Bogong’s At this Present Moment running concurrently at White Space Gallery, which Lu also curated and which I’ll focus on here. The spare surroundings of the White Space Gallery’s double-height room provides an appropriately ascetic setting for Yu Bogong’s collection of contraptions, arrangements, tools and drawings.
The gall... [more]
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Will the Pace Beijing Curator Please Stand Up?
by Edward Sanderson
Song Dong, Wang Guangle, Wang Jin, Shi Jinsong, Huang Ran, Su Wenxiang, Qiu Xiaofei, Hu Xiaoyuan, Yuan Yuan, LIANG Yuanwei at Pace Beijing
December 30th, 2010 - February 28th, 2011
Posted
3/7/11
Although at first glance an example of the stopgap shows thrown up during Beijing’s slow season of Christmas through Chinese New Year, Pace Beijing has laid on a group show with grander aspirations. Beijing Voices: Together or Isolated addresses recent questions about the development of gallery shows in Beijing and the role of curators in general, but cuts the rug from under its own feet with confused presentation.
"Beijing Voices" presents a selection of new works by 10 Chinese artists curren... [more]
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Growing Pains
by Edward Sanderson
Posted
2/21/11
A concern with the “everyday” happens to coincide for two of Beijing’s experimental spaces: both Vitamin Creative Space (whose Pavilion I addressed previously on ArtSlant (here) and HomeShop see it as grist to their mills. This past December, HomeShop moved into their new premises in a former Danwei dormitory in central Beijing. This move took place amidst an ongoing self-analysis of the relationship of their activities with the everyday and the sustainability of their practice.
HomeShop... [more]
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In Bed with Zhang Xiaogang
by Edward Sanderson
Zhang Xiaogang at Today Art Museum (TAM)
December 9th, 2010 - December 26th, 2010
Posted
12/28/10
With an artist as well known as Zhang Xiaogang, it’s perhaps difficult for audience perceptions to move on from the clichés of “Chinese art” that his work has come to represent. This issue is equally relevant for artist themselves in their quest to develop their work. Zhang’s solo show at the Today Art Museum in Beijing demonstrates the artist’s attempt to devolop and energize his signature forms.
Zhang Xiaogang’s canvases since the early 1990s have been characterized... [more]
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Nooks and Crannies
by Edward Sanderson
at The Pavilion
November 20th, 2010 - November 20th, 2011
Posted
12/13/10
The end of November marked the inception of Vitamin Creative Space’s “The Pavilion” – their third space in China, and second in Beijing. This occasion allowed for a revisiting of their presentation methods in their various spaces. So, what is this “Pavilion” and what purpose does it serve? And how does it relate to their previous space, “the shop”? Coming to grips with Vitamin’s selection of venues reveals a taste for poetic license in their consistently ambiguous... [more]
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Busy Beehive
by Edward Sanderson
at Platform China, Beijing
November 11th, 2010 - November 30th, 2010
Posted
12/6/10
Developing quite a reputation as a space that encourages experimentation in their shows, Platform China currently has two exhibitions that, in their own way, leave some breathing space in the works and the formats of presentation – a rare and noteworthy situation within the oftentimes banal Beijing gallery environment.
The upstairs gallery of Platform’s Caochangdi space is devoted to a solo show by Jin Shan that presents the artist’s mercurial series of mini-videos "One Man's Island" as a sc... [more]
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Kitchen Catastrophes
by Edward Sanderson
Song Dong at Pace Beijing
October 30th, 2010 - December 18th, 2010
Posted
11/29/10
The new series of video works by Song Dong on view at Pace Beijing continue the artist’s playful experiments with impermanence and the illusory nature of everyday objects, but are ultimately a let down due to lackluster installation.
Pace Beijing has devoted a large section of their space to showing these four new video projections. Arranged asymmetrically, one on each wall in the large darkened space, these short videos begin with artful arrangements of foodstuffs in tableau that hark bac... [more]
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Reflections on Beijing's Edible Art
by Edward Sanderson
Posted
11/22/10
Beijingers are famed for their obsession with food, but with all the food so readily available in the capital it’s easy to forget the complex production and distribution chains involved. Contemporary art, however, has done much to draw attention to this complex trajectory from the farm to the table. At the beginning of the year, Rikrit Tiravanija was in Beijing with a solo show at Tang Contemporary. The preparation of food for the public has become a trademark of Tirav... [more]
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