Ocula Conversation Cinga Samson: ‘a different conversation on representation’ Jareh Das Cinga Samson 's paintings lay bare the complex relationship between contemporary life, African traditions, globalisation, and representation. His strikingly sombre portraits contain similarities to those of contemporary painters such as Toyin Ojih Odutola, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Kehinde Wiley , Florine Démosthène, and Tunji...
Ocula Report Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements Radha Mahendru, Dhaka Seismic Movements , the fifth Dhaka Art Summit, plotted movements, solidarities, and exchanges across the Global South with over 500 artists, scholars, curators, and thinkers.
Ocula Insight Guo Hongwei on Seeing Patterns That Don’t Exist Sherry Paik, New York Guo Hongwei's recent watercolour paintings, showing at Chambers Fine Art in New York from 3 March, trigger pareidolia—the phenomenon of seeing random objects or patterns where they do not exist.
A Thousand Plateaus Art Space was founded in 2007 in Chengdu, China. It is a professional gallery committed to present and promote China’s contemporary art. Equipped with exhibition hall for artworks and collection and screening room for video data, it is mainly on researching, presenting and promoting outstanding works and experimental projects of China’s contemporary art and culture, actively carries out domestic and international cooperation projects.
Read MoreA Thousand Plateaus Art Space devotes itself to present and introduce works and projects of emerging artists who have outstanding talent and merit, and to discover and promote new creative artists. So far, it has mainly represented and cooperated with over 20 artists of all ages. In the way of exhibition, academic discussion, publication, etc., it dedicates to establish the communication channels between the artists and society, institutions and collectors, as well as to provide artwork sales, tailored art projects, collection management consulting, art education projects and curating.
In 2012, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space participated in Hong Kong International Art Fair; in 2013, as the only invited gallery of western China, it will participate in the first edition of Art Basel Hong Kong 2013.
Since founded in 2007, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space has produced and curated nearly 100 cultural and are events, including exhibitions, Blizfilm Festival, video shows, international cooperation and communication events, public art events, seminars, acadimic and public lectures.
Main events include: Echoes: Chengdu New Visual Art Documentary Exhibition 1989 - 2007 (the catalogue of this event has been collected by Asia Art Achieve, the most authoritative instituation in collecting literature of contemporary art in Asian-Pacific region, as one of its three collected catalogues the same year), Multiple Truths: He Duoling, He Gong and Shi Jindian (2008), Obstruction (2009), Rite of Spring - Heddy Maalem & Chen Qiulin (major project of Sino-French Crossroad Festival, it has also been selected by China Ministry of Culture to attend Swiss Art Festival 2009-2010), Creative Chengdu (2009), Lost in Architecture + Ode to Yulin—Nicolas Grospierre & Liu Jiakun (2011), Blitzfilm Festival (2008-2012), The Empty City—Chen Qiulin (2012), Patagonia Wind—He Gong (2012), "Remains of Mountains and Leftover Rivers" Series Lecture (2011-2012), etc..
Besides professionalization and internationalization, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space pays much attention to localization, its art events lay emphasis on mining and concerning the local culture in Chengdu; We are devoted to find excellent artists in China's conteporary art field and cooperate with the Chengdu's excellent artists including He Duoling, Zhou Chunya, He Gong, Chen Qiulin, Xiongyu, etc., as well as to conduct in-depth cooperation and interaction with cultural reaearch institutions including Art College of Sichuan University.
Ocula Photolog ART021 Shanghai 2019 'As one of the most important contemporary art fairs in Asia, ART021 reinforces its ongoing commitment to leveraging local recourses with a global perspective, supporting contemporary Chinese art andcultivating new generations of domestic collectors. 111 world's leading galleries from 18 countries and 57 cities are selected to present contemporary...
Ocula Photolog JingArt 2019 'JINGART is committed to combining the dynamic culture of Beijing with the international art market, in the hope of building a diverse and inclusive platform for local and international exhibitors. This year, exhibitors present works ranging from modern and contemporary art, design, furniture, decorative art, and many more.' –JINGART, Press...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019 'Art Basel reinforces its ongoing commitment to showcasing exceptional art from Asia and the Asia Pacific, with over half of the participating galleries having exhibition spaces in the region. The main sector of the show features 196 of the world's leading galleries presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawings, installation,...
Ocula Photolog West Bund Art & Design 2018 'With a strong selection of returning exhibitors, the 2018 edition welcomes 87 galleries in the Galleries section, among which 39 are participating for the first time.' – West Bund Art & Design (8–11 November 2018).
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Related Press One Giant Tofu Block, One Hundred Names: Chen Qiulin Launches Her Career-survey Exhibition 3 June 2016, Broadsheet On Bridge Road, Richmond's Tofu Shop International is working on its strangest request yet. The brief: a 40cm x 40cm x 7cm cube of its firmest (not finest) bean-curd mix. As Rebecca Coates, director of the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), says, 'Silken just won't work.' The giant block of tofu is being made and carefully transported to SAM in time...
Related Press Christie's takes fresh approach to emerging Chinese contemporary artists in new auction 21 September 2015, Jing Daily Global auction stalwart Christie’s is taking a fresh approach to Chinese contemporary art this fall with a traveling exhibition and sale featuring a diverse selection of work by up and coming artists. Called +86 First Open, the program straddles Shanghai and New York, kicking off with highlights from more than 30 works of art on display at...
Related Press Hong Kong photo exhibition tells story of Chinese city of Yantai 14 May 2015, South China Morning Post Photographer Zhang Xiao's fondest childhood memory of his hometown, Yantai City in Shandong province, is of the carefree times he spent hanging out with his friends, catching fishes and bugs up the hill near the small village in which he grew up. But ever since he left home at age 20 to study architecture and design at Yantai University...
