Tag: China
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Jennifer Wen Ma: ‘With the pandemic and the turbulent political situation, the work had to be more reflective, it had to bind up wounds’
The artist talks about how the Covid lockdown – and increased awareness of social injustice and racial discrimination – radically changed her ideas for her latest show
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Li Qing: East of Eden
The Chinese artist Li Qing explores the tensions between east and west through the lens of architecture and the urban environment, documenting what he calls Hangzhou’s ‘lonely house’ phenomenon
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Starting from the Desert: Ecologies on the Edge – Second Yinchuan Biennale
There are some strong individual showings at the biennale, but its curatorial framework is a mystery and, despite its title and location outside a vastly expanding city on the edge of the Gobi desert, it shows nothing that is critical…
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Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper – A Review
A microcosm of Chinese art and social change at Ipswich Art Gallery – this group show of works on paper by contemporary artists from China draws on, plays with and subverts the canons of art history from both the east…
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Zhang Enli: ‘I pay attention to the subtle things that you might usually ignore’
The artist known for focusing on the poetic aspects of daily life talks about new approaches to painting as seen in his current series of works, which draws on gardens situated in the bustling urban environment of Shanghai
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Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’
A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewei, the Beijing artist talks about his visually stunning, anti-authoritarian and provocative work. Lilly Wei talked to the artist in his Beijing studio in…
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Jennifer Wen Ma – interview: ‘Throughout history, humans have been trying to break into or out of a paradise or utopia’
The artist talks about her new installation, Molar, at Cass Sculpture Foundation, created as a place of reflection on a disintegrating utopia
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Lin Tianmiao – interview: ‘Thread winding taught me to be patient’
Incorporating weaving, sewing and embroidery into her fine art practice, the multidisciplinary artist transforms ordinary objects made from commonplace materials into something rare, evocative and universal. Here, she talks about her work
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Zhan Wang: ‘I have been continually influenced by Michelangelo, Rodin and traditional Chinese sculpture’
The Beijing-based artist is a photographer and video artist, although he is best known for sculpting highly polished stainless steel rocks, a cultural reference to the ‘scholar stones’ loved by the Chinese for their aesthetic appearance
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In the Kingdom of the Gods and Goddesses
Then, in 1975, an even more remarkable underground city was discovered in Chandigarh. For 18 years, humble, self-taught Hindu artist, Nek Chand, had been secretly constructing an extraordinary folk art environment. Although Chand called it the Kingdom (nagri) of the…
