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A LIBRARY OF TEN THOUSAND THINGS: the work of Liu Zhuoquan
Liu Zhuoquan uses an ancient technique of 'inside bottle painting' to create extraordinary contemporary installations. Find out more HERE

Above, Han Yajuan, Perfect Ending (detail) 
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Zhang Peili: From Painting to Video, From Beijing to Canberra
Water: Standard Version from the Cihai Dictionary (1991) presents national TV newsreader Xing Zhibin—famous for her broadcasts during the 1989 Tiananmen “incident,” as it is described in China—reading aloud every word and phrase that contains the character shuǐ (water) from a dictionary. Tedious, absurd, yet also poetic, this flood of meaningless words, freed of any context, parodies official news broadcasts and suggests the mutability of language in the hands of the state propaganda apparatus. Read more HERE 

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Ten Contemporary Chinese Women Artists You Should Know
Chinese contemporary art is ‘the flavour of the month’ in the West, but there are fascinating stories as yet insufficiently told: the stories of contemporary women artists. The ten artists introduced here are members of a generation who grew to adulthood in the 1980s and 1990s. Born into a post-Mao China that was entirely and disconcertingly different from the world of their parents, they have been forced to adjust to a tsunami of change. Click HERE to read a brief account of conversations with these ten artists. My book 'Half the Sky: Conversations with Women Artists in China'  contains their stories and many more.

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Between Heaven and Earth: Bingyi's Meditative Ink Paintings
The extraordinary and multi-talented Bingyi Huang works in a converted Yuan Dynasty Temple close to the Forbidden City on Beijing's central axis. In October 2013 Luise Guest went to meet her to find out why she spent months in the mountains producing absolutely enormous ink paintings, somewhere between earth art, performance art, action painting and the traditional methods of the 'Shan Shui' painter.
Read the article, published in November 2013 on www.theculturetrip.com: 
http://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/between-heaven-and-earth-bingyi-s-meditative-ink-paintings/

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