Richard Deacon's first outdoor sculpture show, which opens this weekend in Antwerp, is long overdue. It's been 30 years since the artist, one of the leading British sculptors of his generation, won the Turner Prize. But the circumstances of this show are somewhat novel, since it has its origins in a bold admission of failure.
Richard Deacon's first outdoor sculpture show, which opens this weekend in Antwerp, is long overdue. It's been 30 years since the artist, one of the leading British sculptors of his generation, won the Turner Prize. But the circumstances of this show are somewhat novel, since it has its origins in a bold admission of failure. In 1993 the...
This past June, Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presented a major exhibition of the work of Robert Rauschenberg, pairing his 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece (1981–98) with work he made during the 1980s in and about China. Concurrent with the exhibition’s opening, UCCA invited students of Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie...
A fairytale wonderland is not only the exuberant paradise that children imagine, but also a utopia that adults under heavy worldly burdens might aspire to reach. Over one hundred years ago, one of the all-time literary classics by English writer Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, was adapted into different formats by the American Walt...
I was starting out as an artist in the 70s when the art market barely existed for contemporary art. There was virtually no commercial activity. The idea of a career didn’t really come into it. I’m not particularly practical, I’m slightly clumsy and inept, but tools and materials and the relationship of action to things I was always interested in....
The Cass Sculpture Foundation has just announced details of an ambitious exhibition, scheduled for 2016. A Beautiful Disorder is being billed as the first major UK exhibition of newly commissioned outdoor sculpture by contemporary Chinese artists. From May to November next year, 15 large-scale sculptures, made in a variety of mediums including...
The exhibit was unveiled last October at the Palais de Tokyo and has relocated to Hong Kong this year with two new participating artists, presenting six Chinese artists in dialogue with five French artists. The Chinese artists capture something ineffable which is deeply connected to the self and engaged with their immediate surroundings and...
The 13th edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach (ABMB) offered an especially strong showing of Asian galleries. As interest in contemporary Asian art continues to grow, so does the number of Asian exhibitors at international art fairs. Of the 267 exhibitors that showed at this year’s ABMB, 21 are located in or have branches in Asia. New...
A new exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris is challenging notions of Chinese contemporary art. Without a Mao-inspired or Cultural Revolution stylistic cliché in sight, the eclectic collection of works by five young "emerging" Chinese artists, presented alongside works by three French counterparts, in "Inside China"...
“Inside China” will be the first of a series of co-curated exhibition tours under a three-year strategic cooperation agreement between KAF and PALAIS DE TOKYO that covers extensive and comprehensive collaboration between the two major institutions in Chinese and French contemporary art to expand and strengthen the international platform...
Since 2002, Art Basel in Miami Beach has grown and expanded at a dizzying rate as artists, gallerists, and collectors converge on Miami each December, making Art Basel in Miami Beach the epicenter event for trending art in the Western Hemisphere. Last year the four-day show broke purchase and attendance records with an estimated $3 billion in sales...
Richard Deacon is the only name on the poster for his new retrospective show at Tate Britain, but, as exhibition curator Clarrie Wallis notes in her catalogue essay, throughout his career he has 'acknowledged the limitations of a single pair of hands'. In his large south London studio on an industrial estate, where he chooses to work alone, Deacon...
'It is a fairly fundamental thing in human beings to make sense of chaotic impressions,' says Richard Deacon, 'to put things into shape.' But the shapes of the sculptures he creates are themselves extremely hard to compute. They often look as if they have been made, with great skill, for some purpose - but it is impossible to put one's finger on...
In his previous works, Shang Yixin often created ephemeral sculptures, wherein moving light cast over objects created instances of roving abstract shadows and a compelling visual relationship between darkened and illuminated surfaces. This use of light to articulate and animate form was a path he might have pursued further. Since 2011, however, the...
The inaugural edition of the ART021 art fair is due to open next week in Shanghai. Founded by Bao Yifeng, a prominent PR honcho (and art collector) and Ying Qinglan, the founder of Aether Space (weibo link) in Beijing, the fair is slated to take place at the NIB Building within the Rockbund complex on the Bund—a stone’s throw from the...
Art Taipei, formerly known as Taipei Art Fair International, is Asia’s oldest art fair. Established by the Taiwan Art Gallery Association in 1992, the fair is to take place this year between 8 and 11 November 2013 in Taipei’s World Trade Center. This edition is the twentieth anniversary of the fair, which emphasises its desire to create...
