谁来教育“艺术圈” ---Authour:Liao Liao ---Source:Platform China
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高伟刚谈展览“恶习” ---Authour:王丹华 ---Source:Platform China
“恶习”展览现场，2012
高伟刚是一位来自黑龙江的艺术家，自幼学习绘画，现居北京。曾是2011年香港国际艺术展（ART HK） “艺术世界之未来”大奖的优胜者。最新展览“恶习”于2012年10月20日至12月2日在站台中国（北京）举办，展出了他近期创作的装置作品。
我们的生活就是碎片，很多碎片。在描述或模拟这些碎片时，会产... |
The Artist is the Genius of Suffering: Interview with Pei Li ---Authour:Edward Sanderson ---Source:Platform China
Beijing, Nov. 2012: The pursuit of beauty and the artist’s commitment to her practice are parallel concerns for Pei Li, whose solo show closed recently at Beijing’s Platform China space. This young artist holds these pursuits to a high degree of scrutiny and suspicion, regarding beauty and fame as... |
Ma Ke: Life Most Intense ---Authour:Iona Whittaker ---Source:Platform China
At times, and often unfairly, Chinese artists are criticised for a want of fervour in their work. However, Ma Ke, whose large colourful oil paintings at Platform China mark the latest in a series of recent solo exhibitions, is not among the accused. The palette deployed, dominated by crimson, yellow... |
“The Artist, Clowns and the Market” ---Authour:Wang Ming’an ---Source:Platform China
By the time he reached thirty, Qi Wenzhang put his whole being into making self-portraits. Qi does not use painting to present his unique qualities as an artist in the way that the traditional self-portrait used to, nor does he try to reveal the spirit within through his painting. Instead, he repres... |
Beneath Life ---Authour:Sasha Zhao ---Source:LEAP
The title of Zhou Yilun’s latest exhibition at Platform China, “As There Is Paradise In Heaven,” immediately brings to mind the old proverb, “the heavens above are matched on earth by Suzhou and Hangzhou.” At the entrance to the exhibition hall, a faded painting scroll featuring the beautif... |
VICE ---Authour:Einar Engstru ---Source:LEAP
We all suffer from our own bad habits, our own faults in character. Vice is the godfather of humanity’s imperfections, that which spells our individual dooms. I smoke, you drink, she buys expensive shoes. But as Gao Weigang sees it, these bad habits can be collective as well, shamelessly shared b... |
Aniwar Mamat ---Authour:Andrea Fenn ---Source:Platform China
Aniwar Mamat has bewitched eyes and shaking hands when he shows what he calls” his latest epiphany” : a mysterious new paint. He says that if artists like Jackson Pollock had discovered it, they would have found a revived reason to live and work” and maybe not commit suicide, like Pollock did... |
Together But Apart: Gao Weigang and Zhou Yilun at Platform China ---Authour:Iona Whittaker ---Source:Platform China
The respective solo exhibitions by Gao Weigang and Zhou Yilun now on show make for a dramatic comparison.
On the left, Gao Weigang; here is represented the more industrial side of this versatile artist’s work, rather than the paintings or hand-hewn sculptures. Positioned firmly around the walls ar... |
PAPER BUSINESS ---Authour: Caroline Ha Thuc ---Source:Platform China
Platform China is showing five mainland Chinese artists, all drawing on paper but using this medium in different ways: sketches, manuscripts, preliminary drawings or as an exploration of the medium itself. After a period when drawing was left aside in contemporary China, artists are coming back to... |
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