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Form is the Most Political?

by Edward Sanderson
Liu Wei at Long March Space September 1st, 2012 - October 7th, 2012
Posted 9/17/12

Long March Space presents a strong body of new works by Liu Wei, which seem to progressively build upon and develop various aspects of this artist’s works. The results suggest monumentality in their occupation of space while retaining an uncertainty in their inability to be defined and interpreted. This opacity of the pieces is apparently mirrored by the reticence of the artist to elaborate on them too specifically. The viewer is offered little aside from some general statements made by Liu a... [more]

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Photography's Phantom

by Edward Sanderson
Liu Chuang, Zhang Liaoyuan, Liu Wei, Su Wenxiang, XuChongbao, Wang Yuyang, ZhengGuogu at Taikang Space April 7th, 2012 - June 2nd, 2012
Posted 5/14/12

With an abrupt reference in its title to a book by Roland Barthes (which appeared in English as Camera Lucida), this show gets underway, presenting works by five Chinese artists each with a relationship to the “phantom” of photography. The artists’ particular approaches to the medium of photography are varied. In this show, Liu Wei is the only artist to include actual photographs, with several examples from his series As Long As I See It, from 2006, on display. These works demonstrate a certai... [more]

Abstraction in Context

by Edward Sanderson
Zhang Enli, Jiang Fang, Guan Fengdong, Zhao Gang, Xu Hongmin, Gong Jian, Yan Lei, Yang Liming, Xie Molin, Liang Quan, Huang Rui, Zhan Rui, Zhong Shan, Liu Wei, Zhang Wei, Ding Yi, Hou Yong, Chen Yufan, Jiang Zhi at Boers-Li Gallery April 9th, 2011 - May 8th, 2011
Posted 5/2/11

The politics of abstraction tread a very fine line. The style can be considered as a rejection of the illusions of representation in favor of a more direct engagement with perception, material and form; or, it can be perceived to be a rescinding of responsibility from making clearly defined statements. Breaking Away, Boers-Li Gallery’s second major group show since decamping to 798, presents a variety of approaches to abstraction by Chinese artists and thereby demonstrates the persisting attrac... [more]

Colour me Asia

by Robin Peckham
Gong Jian, Chen Jie, Yang Jiechang, Lee Kit, Masato Kobayashi, Jane Lee, Michael Lin, Milenko Prvacki, Liu Wei, Ding Yi, Zhao Zhao at Osage Kwun Tong May 1st, 2010 - July 10th, 2010
Posted 5/10/10

The first thing to know about "The Burden of Representation" is that it is not, in fact, concerned with abstraction in Asia today. According to curator Eugene Tan, it is instead "about" painting, surveying the limit case of pictorial abstraction as a metonymic model for the medium as a whole. This is important because the announcement of the artist list under the banner of abstraction caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth within the Chinese art community; only after the opening did the projec... [more]