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Watchlist Artist: Gao Mingyan
by Abhilasha Singh
GAO MINGYAN at Vanguard Gallery 2013-04-09

The exhibition “Exercises of Living” will open on Mar.30th at Vanguard Gallery and last till May 10th. At the end of 2012, Gao Mingyan’s new project “What else could I do?” suddenly alter him from a pure artist to a person with dual identity of social worker and artist. By showing 5 works of video and installation in above-mentioned exhibition, Gao Mingyan put forward the universal problem “What else could I do?” to young artists and the young in other industries similar to him. After th... [more]

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From Ink Painting to Plush Bonsais

by Iona Whittaker
Sayaka Abe, Chen Hangfeng, Shi Jing, Shi Jinsong, Girolamo Marri, GAO MINGYAN, Qian Rong, JI Wenyu at OV Gallery September 11th, 2010 - October 17th, 2010
Posted 9/18/11

The original Chinese Literati, we learn from a quotation by Chen Jiru in the late Ming era that is noted in this exhibition’s accompanying essay, led a sheltered life. Their pastimes included ‘tasting tea, revising books, waiting for the moon, midday nap, walking about with a cane, washing ink stones…’ – not exactly a frenetic schedule. The situation of contemporary artists now is very different; as much as many might cultivate a degree of distance in order to maintain a creative space of... [more]