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Image above: Hong Hao (detail) image source Chambers Fine Art
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In the Realm of the Microcosmic: A Conversation with Zhang Xiaotao in Beijing Zhang believes we live in an “age of lust” - in the past the major themes of his paintings were sex and death. Trained at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, he has reinvented himself as a new media artist of extraordinary ambition, using 3D animation software to create allegories of our time on a dramatic scale. Click HERE to read a conversation with the artist about his work and his desire for a "Buddhist Renaissance" in China. |
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Life, Death and Skeleton Art: Shen Shaomin
Find out how the artist plans to use his OWN skeleton, orchestrating his final "body" of work from beyond the grave. Read my interview with this interesting artist in his Beijing studio in April 2014 http://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/chinese-artist-shen-shaomin-discusses-life-death-and-skeleton-art/ |
"Super Starlets, Material Girls and Girls with Swagger"
Femininity in the work of three Chinese artists: Han Yajuan, Bu Hua and Ma Yanling.
How do artists from different generations, who grew to adulthood in a completely different China, represent ideas about women and "the feminine"? Hint: They are also in my book, 'Half the Sky'. (Piper Press)
Click HERE to read the article!
Femininity in the work of three Chinese artists: Han Yajuan, Bu Hua and Ma Yanling.
How do artists from different generations, who grew to adulthood in a completely different China, represent ideas about women and "the feminine"? Hint: They are also in my book, 'Half the Sky'. (Piper Press)
Click HERE to read the article!
The 'Postmodern Literati': A Conversation with Bingyi
With a new international interest in contemporary interpretations of Chinese ink painting, reflected in the number of exhibitions in major museums and galleries around the world, the practice of brush and ink has caught the attention of the international art market. But for Chinese artist Bingyi Huang it remains deeply personal and meditative, a means of reaching the sublime. And how DOES an artist create a 160 metre long ink painting? Find out more:
http://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/between-heaven-and-earth-bingyi-s-meditative-ink-paintings/
With a new international interest in contemporary interpretations of Chinese ink painting, reflected in the number of exhibitions in major museums and galleries around the world, the practice of brush and ink has caught the attention of the international art market. But for Chinese artist Bingyi Huang it remains deeply personal and meditative, a means of reaching the sublime. And how DOES an artist create a 160 metre long ink painting? Find out more:
http://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/between-heaven-and-earth-bingyi-s-meditative-ink-paintings/
Silvermine: A conversation with Thomas Sauvin
Read an interview with Beijing-based Thomas Sauvin, a collector, curator, and "rescuer of lost images". Why does 'vernacular photography' matter? What can you do with 650,000 discarded photographic negatives? And why on earth did Chinese people in the 1980s want to be photographed with their refrigerators????
http://theartlife.com.au/2014/objet-trouve-chinois/
Read an interview with Beijing-based Thomas Sauvin, a collector, curator, and "rescuer of lost images". Why does 'vernacular photography' matter? What can you do with 650,000 discarded photographic negatives? And why on earth did Chinese people in the 1980s want to be photographed with their refrigerators????
http://theartlife.com.au/2014/objet-trouve-chinois/
Agencies of the Artworld: A conversation with Huang Jing Yuan
A conversation between painter Huang Jing Yuan and Luise Guest at the artist's studio in Beijing results in some insights into this artist's practice. “I am definitely someone very interested in the logic of how governments want to be seen and how individuals want to be seen,” she says:
http://theartlife.com.au/2013/i-am-your-agency/
A conversation between painter Huang Jing Yuan and Luise Guest at the artist's studio in Beijing results in some insights into this artist's practice. “I am definitely someone very interested in the logic of how governments want to be seen and how individuals want to be seen,” she says:
http://theartlife.com.au/2013/i-am-your-agency/
A Conversation with Guan Wei
Luise Guest chats to Guan Wei in his Beijing studio, and finds out why he is returning to Jingdezhen to work with the porcelain craftsmen there:
http://theartlife.com.au/2013/floating-worlds-a-conversation-with-guan-wei/
Luise Guest chats to Guan Wei in his Beijing studio, and finds out why he is returning to Jingdezhen to work with the porcelain craftsmen there:
http://theartlife.com.au/2013/floating-worlds-a-conversation-with-guan-wei/
Qing Qing: Between Memory and Metaphor
Chen Qing Qing layers past and present in surreal sculptural installations. Best known for ethereal imperial robes made of grass and hemp, she also creates diorama-like works inspired by her early love for Joseph Cornell’s magical box sculptures. . Click HERE to read my interview with the artist, at her home in Songzhuang Artists' Village, published on The Culture Trip website.
