| December-25-2007 |
| Exhibition: Private Journal—LIU Wen Ter Solo Exhibition |
Aki Gallery and Taiwan Contemporary Art Link are pleased to present the solo exhibition of LIU Wen Ter, Private Journal, from 12 to 27 January 2008, in Aki Gallery.
The exhibition features LIU’s every series from 2003. To review all his lovely drawings, we can easily observe the artistic layered texture revealing LIU’s daily sensitivity while the ambiguous lines and shapes transmitting the transformation of the time and the memory. All these fluid metaphors connects the viewers to an unfinished murmurs.
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| December-14-2007 |
| Exhibition: Su Meng-Hung in 2007 Hong Kong Art Buffet |
Su Meng-Hung incorporates fashion design in his works, yet also draws his inspiration from classical Chinese paintings. Intricately integrating of the East and the West with layers consisting of the classic and the new, his artwork exhibits a richly decorative chic. Peony is luxuriant and exquisite. Its supreme beauty makes it the king of all flowers. It has become symbols of prosperity, richness and splendor. Su's work borrows part of images from the classical painting The Spring Blessing Collection by Wang Cheng-Pei of the Qing Dynasty at the National Palace Museum of Taipei. The camouflage pattern on the ball is formed by the silhouettes of the artist. To Chinese, 'ball' also represents well-rounded completeness. The work fuses the traditional peony image of the classical culture with popular icons, with the hope to bring in tension as well as beautiful sparks. Located in the main financial district of Hong Kong, Prosperity Abound also acts as a good luck charm calling for bountiful prosperity. This luxuriantly exquisite visual feast on display during the festive time will certainly add a sense of joy to the surrounding ambience.
Related Link: 2007 Hong Kong Art Buffet Official Site
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| December-13-2007 |
| Article:The Getty Gets Serious About Video by Carol Kino |
The Getty Gets Serious About Video
by Carol Kino
EARLY this year the artist Martin von Haselberg, better known as one-half of the Kipper Kids performance duo, made a pilgrimage to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles to view a video he hadn’t seen since he created it in 1976. The institute had just rediscovered it in the Long Beach Museum of Art video archives, a trove of early work that the institute acquired in December 2005.
In many ways the tape is typical of the years when video was an exciting new art form, ripe for cheap experimentation, as well as a novel way to document another relatively new medium, performance art. The tape’s first half shows Mr. von Haselberg playing around with technology as he mugs behind a magnifying lens that grotesquely enlarges and distorts his features.
In the second half Mr. von Haselberg and the other Kipper Kid, Brian Routh, send up macho camaraderie by grunting and singing in cockney-accented gibberish while roughing each other up, urinating in tandem and stripping to the buff.
It also seems typical that until last summer Mr. von Haselberg (who later became a commodities broker and married Bette Midler) had forgotten the tape’s existence. Back then, as he noted, most artists weren’t too careful about keeping track of their video output.
“I don’t know if people were less obsessed by documenting, or if they were taking video less seriously,” he said in a telephone interview from his studio in Harlem. Many of the videos in the Long Beach archives, he added, were most likely “done on a lark.”
Today, however, the Getty is treating that archive, larks and all, with the seriousness that befits a significant slice of art history. Though the research institute has been slowly building its video holdings since it opened in 1982, the Long Beach acquisition suddenly transformed its collection into one of the world’s largest.
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| December-13-2007 |
| News: Online Indian art acution mops up $8 million |
New York, Dec 8 - Even as S.H. Raza's 'Maha Bindu' fetched $652,000 beating Tyeb Mehta's 'Untitled' which sold at $602,500, Saffronart's two-day online auction of Indian art closed Thursday realising a total sale value of about $8 million from 110 lots representing 36 artists.
Attracting almost 500 bidders from over 25 countries, the sale notched an increase in average lot price from Saffronart's June auction and other auctions of modern Indian art held in New York in September, underscoring buyers' increasing confidence in the market. In addition, Saffronart organisers add, the fact that almost a third of those who won lots were new bidders reflected the continuing global expansion of the buyer base for Indian art.
In Raza's 'Maha Bindu' (1988), the artist's favourite motif, bindu, pulsates within a square, much like the ancient Hindu and Buddhist mandalas that described the sacred universe.
In Mehta's 'Untitled' (2000) the androgynous figure careening downwards in endless freefall conveys the weight of personal and public violence in shaping the human experience today.
Fetching the third top price was F.N. Souza's monumental portrait, 'Titian's Grandfather' (1955), which sold for $591,500.
Rameshwar Broota's 'Man - II' (1981) attracted an intense round of last minute bidding, eventually going for $359,829.
Jogen Chowdhury's 'Couple A' (1984), an intricate rendering of a typically dressed and postured Bengali couple, sold for $304,750, almost tripling its high estimate to break the artist's record price for a work on paper.
World auction records were also set for the work of painters Sakti Burman and Thota Vaikuntam, and for sculptor S. Dhanapal.
Started in 2000, Saffronart, with offices in Mumbai and New York, has become a major proponent of contemporary Indian art by providing artists with greater opportunities to engage an Indian and global audience.
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| December-13-2007 |
| Article : Chinese Contemporary Going Fast by Sarah Douglas |
Chinese Contemporary Going Fast
By Sarah Douglas
MIAMI—All eyes have been on contemporary Chinese art lately, especially since October, when Yue Minjun's 1995 painting Execution was hammered down for a record $5.9 million at Sotheby's London. And it looks like Chinese art is still hot. At Art Basel Miami Beach, two major American galleries, who did not yet wish to fully disclose their plans, told me they are planning galleries or offices in China. And Sotheby's is hosting an exhibition of contemporary Chinese artworks at the Mandarin Oriental, complete with a lavish dinner tomorrow night. While there wasn't an abundance of contemporary Chinese art at the fair this year, what of it there was flew off the stands relatively early, especially the works by recognizable names.
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| December-13-2007 |
| Exhibition: Tracce nel Futuro - Footprints into the Future |
Tracce nel Futuro | Footprints into the Future
Until February 25th 2008
PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
Via dei Mille 60
80121 Napoli
Artists: A-Min, Chen Chieh-jen, Hsiao Sheng-chien, Huang Sheng-yen, Hung Tunglu, Li Jiun-yang, Li Ming-tse, Lin Shu-min, Liu Kao Sing, Lu Mu-jen, Sheu Jer Yu, Tu Wei-cheng
Curated by Julia Draganovic and Tseng Fangling
http://www.palazzoartinapoli.net
Becoming aware of one's historical-cultural background to represent its multiple facets in an innovative artistic production; crossing the bounds of the ancestors' models; managing to say something new: these are the themes of Tracce nel futuro | Footprints into the future, the exhibition curated by Julia Draganovic, Artistic Director of the PAN -- Naples, Italy, and Tseng Fangling, Chief Curator of the Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum -- Taiwan. Tracce nel futuro is the third exhibition in the cycle dedicated to the theme of "Challenges", which is held at the PAN from November 16th to February
25th 2008.
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| December-12-2007 |
| Exhibition: 2007 Chen Wen Chi solo exhibition - An illusion 2 Amour |
An illusion 2 Amour continues Chen’s sequences of contemporary portraits. By the observation of friends’ relationship, Chen starts to document his acquaintances and readjusts the apartness of physical and psychological distances. Through the exercise of focal and out of focal, the perspective of scrutator and witness, An illusion 2 Amour is a series work addressing the overturn of cognizance.
2007 Chen Wen Chi solo exhibition - An illusion 2 Amour, from 15 to 30 December 2007
VT ArtSalon
B1,No.47,Yi-Tong St.,Taipei,Taiwan
tel:+886-2-2516-1060 fax:+886-2-2515-6672
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| December-12-2007 |
| Exhibition: Sounds Raiser – Tseng Wei Hao solo exhibition |
Galerie Grand Siecle and Taiwan Contemporary Art Link are pleased to present the latest sounds installation of Tseng Wei Hao in NHCTC Artist Space, from 19 December 2007 to 9 January 2008.
Tseng Wei Hao, the most active sound artist and the previous winner of Taipei Fine Arts Awards, has has devoted to crystallize the conception as well as the sound by interactive art works. Through returning and reducing the sounds to primal conditions, using the views’ physical as the amplifier, Tseng’s works reveals the possibilities of representing fickleness and randomization.
Sounds Raiser – Tseng Wei Hao solo exhibition, , from 19 December 2007 to 9 January 2008
NHCTC Artist Space
No.521 Nanda Rd., Hsin Chu
02-5213132#2901
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| December-12-2007 |
| Exhibition: Still Life - solo exhibition by Wang Liang-Yin |
Wang Liang-Yin, Danish, 2007, acrlics on canvas, 150X150 cm
Aki Gallery, Garden City Publication and Taiwan Contemporary Art Link are pleased to present Still Life, the solo exhibition byWang Liang-Yin, from 15 to 30 December, Garden City Art Space.
In Still Life, Wang Liang-Yin’s latest body of works, Deserts series, will be presented. This series utilizing fluid acrylics creates the visual and significant equivoque of materiality and physicality. Wang has just received the Grand Prize of Taiwan Emerging Artists 2007.
Still Life - solo exhibition by Wang Liang-Yin, 15 to 30 December
Garden City Art Space
No.6 Lane 72 Jhongshan N. Rd, Taipei 104
02-2531-9081
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| December-07-2007 |
| News: Chou Chu Wang Received Taipei Fine Arts Award |
Aki Gallery and Taiwan Contemporary Art Link are honored to announce artist Chou Chu Wang received Taipei Fine Arts Award 2007 Grand Prize.
Chou Chu Wang is the new artist in Aki Gallery. Chou has devoted himself into documenting his hometown by realistic painting for a long time, and started to explore the same concept by video from this year. Taipei Fine Arts Award 2007 rewards his video works as the profound presentation.
Taipei Fine Arts Award, organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum annually, is the most important contemporary arts award in Taipei. Link artists Chen Chien Jung, Chen Kun Feng, Chen Wan Jen, Chen Yi Chieh, Hsieh Mu Chi, Hua Chien Chiang, Huang Hsin Chien, Kuo Hui Chan, Kuo I Chen, Liu Wen Ter, Shiau Bei Chen, Su Meng Hung, Tao Ya Lun, Tseng Wei Hao and Wang Ya Hui have been rewarded.
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| December-07-2007 |
| Exhibition: Hsieh Mu Chi and Lo Chan Peng are in Contemporary Dialogue |
Hsieh Mu Chi, How to Identify the Color of Sky
Lo Chan Peng, The Strawberry Jounal 9
Aki Gallery and Taiwan Contemporary Art Link are pleased to announce artists Hsieh Mu Chi and Lo Chan Peng will show in Contemporary Dialogue, in Impressions Art Gallery Taipei, from 15 to 31 December.
Hsieh Mu Chi, the most active emerging artist and also the Taipei Fine Arts Award Grand Price winner, will present his early works in these young artists group show. From How to Identify the Color of Sky and Basketball Game Machine 001, we can recognize the continuous hints which he expand into established visual elements in his later works. Lo Chan Peng, who just had his debut group show in Aki gallery this September, is introduced as a new talent in Contemporary Dialogue. His accomplished skills of realism paintings are transformed into conceptual representation of iconology which we are infiltrated by digital technology.
Contemporary Dialogue, in Impressions Art Gallery Taipei, from 15 to 31 December.
No.40, Sec. 4 Ren-ai Rd., Taipei
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| December-04-2007 |
| Article: The Dragon Awakes By Xhingyu Chen |
The Dragon Awakes
By Xhingyu Chen
SHANGHAI—Despite the extraordinary attention given to the explosion of the Chinese contemporary art market in the past few years, observers have only recently begun to investigate what Chinese collectors theselves are buying. The perception has long been that the growing popularity of Chinese art was due primarily to Western buyers and interest. But since an anonymous Chinese collector paid a record $2.7 million for the Liu Xiaodong painting New Three Gorges Resettlers at a Beijing Poly auction last year, focus has started to shift to what Chinese buyers are interested in.
Some market watchers saw September’s ShContemporary fair in Shanghai as evidence of this new interest, though the fair organizers always emphasized that they were reaching out to a general Asian audience rather than a specifically Chinese one. Now, Shanghai’s Zendai Museum of Modern Art is taking a major step in reaching out specifically to local Chinese collectors by organizing a special trip for a select group to Art Basel Miami Beach in December. While this isn’t the first time that a trip like this has been taken—the late Jonathan Napack, formerly Art Basel’s Asia Art adviser, organized a similar excursion to Basel last year for a very small group including Zendai founder Dai Zhitong, who in the end couldn’t secure a visa—the fact that it is put together by a local entity indicates that the Chinese are starting to play a more active role in educating themselves about the market.
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| December-04-2007 |
| Article: Christie's Sells HK$2.1 Billion of Art, Antiques in Hong Kong |
Christie's Sells HK$2.1 Billion of Art, Antiques in Hong Kong
Cai Guoqiang's set of 14 drawings, a Ming Dynasty jar and a painting by Paris-based veteran Zao Wou-ki sold for records in Hong Kong as Christie's International raised HK$2.1 billion ($270.4 million) in a five-day sale.
Bidders were more discerning than at previous auctions, competing strongly for the best pieces and passing on many of the lower-quality items, said Tian Kai, a Beijing-based art dealer who attended the 2,400-lot sale that ended last night. The Ming jar fetched HK$30.5 million on Nov. 27, when bidders shunned a quarter of the 214 items offered, according to Christie's.
"Buying is more rational, more calculated," said Tian, 33. "People realize only certain artworks retain value over time."
Christie's top presale estimate for the series of auctions was HK$1.8 billion before fees.
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| December-04-2007 |
| Exhibition: Streaky Pork Series: Epoch-Making Solo Exhibition of Chang Ling |
Aki Gallery presents Epoch-Making, new paintings from Streaky Pork Series by Chang Ling, from 8 to 31 Dec.
Chang Ling, perhaps the most potential emerging painters in Taiwan, studied his fine arts degree in Paris and went back to Taiwan in 2005. Streaky Pork Series is the series he has been developing for these two years, in which Chang Ling absorbs the western philosophy and politics and interknit with the oriental cultural and regional iconology. The flesh in the canvas can be referred to the masterpieces of Rembrandt and Goya while the whole theme of Epoch-Making is referred to China genesis tale.
Streaky Pork Series: Epoch-Making Solo Exhibition of Chang Ling, 8 to 31 Dec., Aki Gallery
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