INTERVIEW BY 採訪 X HARRY LIU 劉競晨 TRANSLATED BY 翻譯 X CAI SUDONG 蔡蘇東 IMAGES COURTESY OF 圖片提供 X SONICA 聲音藝術節 Mark Lyken is an artist, filmmaker and composer based in rural Dumfries & Galloway in Scotland. Utilizing his gifts as a musician as well as a painter, he now creates observational film, music, …
INTERVIEW BY 採訪 X HARRY LIU 劉競晨 TRANSLATED BY 翻譯 X CAI SUDONG 蔡蘇東 IMAGES COURTESY OF 圖片提供 X SONICA 聲音藝術節 Herman Kolgen is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist with more than two decades of experience on the international media arts scene. As an audiokinetic sculptor, he draws his inspiration from the intimate relationship between …
Interview and Text by 撰文 X Sophie Guo 郭笑菲 IMAGES COURTESY OF 圖片提供 X ARTICHOKE TRUST In a hope to revitalise the cities in the midst of the darkness of winter, Artichoke Trust made an epic return to Durham with its four-day light festival Lumiere in November, followed by another turn in central London two …
INTERVIEWED AND TEXT BY 採訪及撰文 X NILS JEAN，SOPHIE GUO 郭笑菲 TRANSLATED BY 翻譯 x JOSHUA GONG 龔之允 HARRY LIU 劉競晨 IMAGES COURTESY OF X WHITECHAPEL GALLERY 白教堂畫廊 Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) at the Whitechapel Gallery is a recap of the history of Internet art from 1966 to the present day. The show brings together …
In spring 2017, the National Gallery presents ‘The Caged Bird’s Song’, a new tapestry by Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. The exhibition marks the first time the artist has worked in the medium of tapestry and includes a series of preparatory works on paper in an installation conceived by the artist for the Gallery’s Sunley Room.
This summer, the Royal Academy of Arts presents Matisse in the Studio, the first exhibition to consider how the personal collection of treasured objects of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) were both subject matter and inspiration for his work. To reveal the working processes by which these pieces were transformed in his oeuvre, around 35 objects are displayed alongside 65 of Matisse’s paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and cut-outs.
Emma Hart, who won the sixth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, brings her large-scale installation Mamma Mia! into the Whitechapel Gallery. After a six-month bespoke residency in Italy, Hart presents a family of large ceramic, jug-like luminous heads, which are cut off below the nose but reveal a mouth that projects …
120 works by Raphael from international collections shows at the Ashmolean from 1 June to 3 September 2017. The exhibition RAPHAEL: THE DRAWINGS includes fifty works from the Ashmolean’s own collection, which becomes the largest and most important group of Raphael drawings in the world.
Whitechapel Gallery presents A Handful of Dust, bringing together artworks and documents, tracing a visual journey through the motif of dust from aerial reconnaissance, wartime destruction and natural disasters to domestic dirt and forensics.
Tate Modern presents an exhibition: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power from 12 July to 22 October. Tracing a series of creative artworks among African-American artists form 1963 to 1983, featuring more than 150 works, many on display in the UK for the first time, Soul of a Nation provides an opportunity to see how American cultural identity was re-shaped at a time of social unrest and political struggle.
The National Portrait Gallery presents The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt: an exhibition of old master European portrait drawings from 13 July to 22 October.
Text by 撰文 x Li Bowen 李博文 Like other books of similar titles – and the overwhelming abundance of publications as such in recent years is already a very telling fact – Domenico Quaranta attempts in the Beyond New Media Art to define New Media Art in a clear, honest and innovative fashion, against …
Glitch 失靈 Text by 撰文 x Andrew Witt Translated by 翻譯 x Jay 賴俊傑 Edited by 編輯 x Michelle Yu 余小悅 Glitch is a slang term. The earliest usage of the term was in the 1960s among astronauts to describe a technical hitch. The term signaled an unexpected malfunction. Astronaut John Glenn first …
Text 撰文 x by Joshua Gong 龔允之 Jenova Chen was a video game producer, born in Shanghai and now working in the US. The games he made were conceptually avant-garde, and in 2008 he was nominated by the MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age …
Sculpture in the City, the City of London’s annual public art programme set amongst some of London’s most iconic architectural landmarks, launches on 27 June.
From 22 June – 2 July 2017, 17 contemporary artists exhibit their works in the rarely-seen working studios at the heart of the Royal Academy. With previous years, the prestigious Royal Academy Schools show is sure to be a crowd-puller as it showcases the final projects of 17 art stars of the future.
Multi-sensory exhibition featuring ten extraordinary perfumes and their pioneering creators, who have radically changed our perceptions of fragrance over the last 20 years.
During 8 June — 10 September, the Serpentine has invited British artist Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture, to present a major exhibition of new work. The works in the show touches on many themes including popularity and art, masculinity and the current cultural landscape.
In May of 2017, the British Museum will stage the first exhibition in the UK to focus on the later years of the life and art of Hokusai, featuring his iconic print The Great Wave of c. 1831 and continuing to the sublime painted works produced right up to his death at the age of 90.
June 10, 2017, the documenta 14 exhibition opens in Kassel. Over 160 international artists present works conceived for documenta 14 at more than thirty different sites, public institutions, squares, cinemas, and university locations.
Habits assume the form of abstraction that treats the repeated instances of feelings or images as being all the same, thus forming categories.
在中華人民共和國駐英國大使館文化處的支持下，由鼎天國際 (英國)有限公司獨家主辦的《鑑賞海外遺珍展》將於5月7日-10日在倫敦隆重舉行。 重現中國藝術品的華彩，開啟塵封的傳奇故事，本次《鑑賞CHINA》海外遺珍展， 不僅為大眾提供一場中國藝術遺珍的視覺盛宴，還將開啟集學術、觀想、展售為一體的新中國經典藝術交易平台。同時，這次展覽還得到了國際知名品牌香奈爾的大力贊助， 在展會期間舉辦香奈兒鑑賞中國藝術品之夜貴賓酒會，香奈兒珠寶攜手鼎天國際，共同打造一場中國藝術與頂級奢侈品的對話。 2016年11月，首屆《鑑賞CHINA》海外遺珍展在倫敦舉辦，秉承這次盛事的首戰告捷，鼎天英國已經逐漸成為歐洲及中國藏家心目中對話及交流的最佳平台。 2017展會的籌備工作一經展開，就得到了各界人士的熱烈關注，來自法國、瑞典、丹麥、荷蘭、比利時、香港、北京、上海等地收藏機構及民間家族積極諮詢，前來商議洽展的藏家絡繹不絕。 2017年的整個春天，鼎天（英國）總經理俞海鷹帶領同事們輾轉歐洲及亞洲各地，與當地藏家會面商談，對話中不僅聆聽到許多動人的傳奇故事，也開啟了塵封多年的家族收藏，其中不乏難得一見的稀世珍品。無論是古陶的沉厚、宋瓷的極簡、明瓷的多姿、清瓷的富麗，還是皇家御製景泰藍的雅緻，明代大家繪畫的古樸……這些多年來消失在世人視線之外的遺珍都將通過這次海外遺珍展重新煥發往日光茫，再敘當年傳奇。 《鑑賞CHINA》海外遺珍展甄選近百件瓷器、文玩雜項、書畫等藝術精品。展品中的清乾隆銅胎掐絲琺瑯蓮塘圖鶴足雙龍耳蓋爐，是極負皇家氣質的純手工藝術品景泰藍，自元代流入中國起直到乾隆一朝就從未走出過皇宮，數百年來一直以雍容華貴之態居於紫禁城中。清乾隆白玉夔龍紋魔方套盒選用一流的和田白玉籽料，玉質細密溫潤， 純潔無暇，蓋盒之間扣合嚴密，間不容髮，是一件極為精緻的宮廷文房雅玩，為英國著名古董家之舊藏。還有清雍正青花九龍紋高足杯、明宣德青花纏枝連紋淨水瓶，明朝戴進翠竹菊石圖等多項珍貴藏品，均彰顯了中華傳統歷史文化之高雅品味，使得本次展覽具有較高的藝術性與學術性。 2017《鑑賞CHINA》海外遺珍展通過展覽交流，專業評審，出版註錄，勵志為藏家 打造最好的中國經典藝術的交易平台，將悠久的中國藝術傳承下去。該展覽於5月7-10 日在梅菲爾的萬豪酒店會議中心舉行，為社會公眾奉上精緻的文化盛宴。
Wolfgang Tillmans has earned recognition as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today. Tate Modern presents an exhibition concentrating on his production across different media since 2003. First rising to prominence in the 1990s for his photographs of everyday life and contemporary culture, Tillmans has gone on to work in an ever greater variety of media and has taken an increasingly innovative approach to staging exhibitions. Tate Modern brings this variety to the fore, offering a new focus on his photographs, video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music.
Tate Britain today announces the world’s most extensive retrospective of the work of David Hockney, opening February 2017. Widely regarded as one of the most successful and recognisable artists of our time, this exhibition will celebrate Hockney’s achievement in painting, drawing, print, photography and video. Following its presentation in London the exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and The Metropolitan Museum, will tour internationally to Paris and New York.
Shen Xin’s films are steeped in the cool sensitivity of an artist all too aware of the tentative relations of power, framing and gesture inherent to lens-mediated space.
A Group Show in Four Parts
11 November 2016 – 25 February 2017
From November 2016 to February 2017, the gallery will present Looking at one thing and thinking of something else – a group show in four monthly instalments. Each chapter of the exhibition will be curated around a different set of themes, with some works remaining from one instalment to the next, allowing for the same artworks to be understood through different lenses, and unfolding multiple meanings and resonances between the works.
1 December 2016 – 2 April 2017
Tate Modern’s major exhibition of the work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), organised in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will be the first posthumous retrospective and the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work for 20 years.
TEXT 撰文 x BY GONG ZHIYUN 龚之允 Museums in China have problematic identities, and their museological practice can be experienced differently than those institutions in the West. The Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (Yinchuan MoCA, Fig. 1), which opened in 2015, is an example of the controversial identity of museums in China. Its planning and …
Text 撰文 x by Jesc Bunyard Translated 翻譯 x by Cai Sudong 蔡苏东 Edited 編輯 x by Michelle Yu 余小悅 Collaborative studio rAndom International are most famous for their Rain Room installation. This work enchanted viewers first at the Barbican in London and subsequently at MoMA in New York, Yuz Museum in Shanghai and LACMA …
12 October 2016 – 15 January 2017 Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery Beyond Caravaggio is the first major exhibition in the UK to explore the work of Caravaggio and his influence on the art of his contemporaries and followers. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) is one of the most revolutionary figures in art. His strikingly original, emotionally …
Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts 29 October 2016 – 29 January 2017 Sponsored by the Government of Flanders The mask means to me: freshness of colour, extravagant decorations, wild generous gestures, strident expressions, exquisite turbulence. ——James Ensor The Royal Academy of Arts presents the …
Text by Jesc Bunyard Edited and Translated by Michelle Yu Image Courtesy of Frieze Yes, it’s that time again. Time for the madness of Frieze, when the London art calendar lurches into life and everyone heads for the Regent’s Park. 是的，一年一次的Frieze又來了，日曆上滿滿的藝術活動，安排不過來，也看不過來，但大家一定都會湧向Regent’s Park的Frieze Art Fair。 In addition to the Live section, which is always a firm …
Banana Jam Space 首展the beginning於9.17號順利開幕。本次展覽由lab-box成員黃晶晶、吳博共同策劃，共邀請到國內外二十一位藝術家參與展覽。展覽試圖通過藝術家與策展人的合作，對新生空間的敘事性，進行實驗性的批判與探索。
2016 London Design Festival “Nanjing Week”
Creative East Meets West: Renowned Metropolis of Oriental Culture Meets Western Capital
Interview with Tim Reeve, Deputy Director of the V&A 專訪V&A副館長蒂姆·里夫 . Interviewed and text by x 採訪及撰文 Li Bowen 李博文 Edited by x 編輯 Michelle Yu 余小悅 Nicolas Anderson 尼古拉斯·安德森 . China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK), in association with founding partner the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), has announced the brand—DESIGN SOCIETY 「设计互联」— a new cultural …
繼2015年意大利米蘭“設計·東方”展後，為持續拓展學科國際影響力、輻射力、競爭力，全面提升教師設計創作能力與隊伍的凝聚力、向心力，讓中國文化、中國設計“走出去” ，中國美術學院應邀參加2016年9月17—25日舉辦的英國倫敦設計週展覽活動，整體呈現中國美術學院設計藝術學院教學成果。
Lychee One Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of The South African artist Marlene Steyn You Can’t Cry When Your Head Is Underwater.
Abstract Expressionism 24 September 2016 — 2 January 2017 The Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition of Abstract Expressionism to be held in the UK in almost six decades. With over 150 paintings, sculptures and photographs from public and private collections across the world, this ambitious exhibition …
Wellcome Collection 15 September 2016 – 15 January 2017 The outside is a perfect mockery to the inside. —Thomas Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical (1700) The world is but a great Bedlam, where those that are more mad, lock up those who are less —Thomas Tryon (1689) Our mental health has many dimensions: medical, psychological, social, …
Beginning September 23rd, 2016, Chengdu MOCA is pleased to present the exhibition Memory goes as far as this morning, with two established artists of different backgrounds: Gideon Rubin (Israel / UK) and Shu Qun (China).
House of Egorn opens in London with Cue Collision, an evolving exhibition in three phases, launching on 9 September. Artist Vivien Zhang takes on the legacy of Herald Street in collaboration with four young contemporaries to regenerate the London site with works that challenge our lines of presumption in a time with accelerated speeds of reading and understanding.
Interviewed and Text by 採訪及撰文ｘ Nils Jean 尼爾斯•吉恩 Translated by 翻譯 ｘ Michelle Yu 余小悅 Jay Chun-Chieh Lai 賴駿杰 Images Courtesy of 圖片提供 ｘ Carroll/Fletcher Gallery 卡洛爾/弗萊徹畫廊 Photographed BY 攝影 ｘ Syndi Huang 黃煥欣 Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead work across video, sound, sculpture, installation and online space, using technology as a means to reformulate …
Text by 撰文 x Rajesh Punj Translated 翻譯 x by Cai Sudong 蔡苏东 Edited by 編輯 x Michelle Yu 余小悅 Jesc Bunyard The condition of being modern, of our living through modernity has been effectively harnessed by new technologies that predict precisely our thoughts as a set of rudimentary likes and dislikes, so that industry …
This major exhibition from the V&A explores the era-defining significance and impact of the late 1960s upon life today. From global civil rights, multiculturalism, environmentalism, consumerism, computing, communality to neoliberalist politics, the world we live in has been vitally influenced by five revolutionary years 1966 – 70. You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and …
Barbican Centre, London, UK 14 July — 4 September 2016 Opening 14 July 2016 at Barbican Art Gallery, this is the first ever UK survey of the work of the internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, charting his wide-ranging practice across film and performance, and his less well known work as a painter and draughtsman. Born into …
Little Soldier Zhang Ga is an uplifting tale of a young boy’s solidarity and spirit during World War II. Set in northern China during the outbreak of the war, the piece inventively uses both puppets and actors to tell Zhang Ga’s incredible story and his inspiring response to the conflict that surrounds him.
An immersive virtual reality exhibition from the Icelandic icon Björk 1 September – 23 October 2016 Somerset House announced the European premiere of Björk Digital, an exhibition of digital and video works, resulting from Björk’s collaborations with some of the finest visual artists and programmers in the world and coinciding with a special performance at the Royal …
The Store, 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA 8 September – 11 December 2016 Hayward Gallery in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory will present the gallery’s only major off-site exhibition The Infinite Mix during its two-year refurbishment, taking place at The Store, a new creative space at iconic Brutalist building 180 The Strand. 今年九月，Vinyl …
Interview with Sean Bidder, Creative Director of Vinyl Factory 專訪Vinyl Factory創意總監肖恩·比德. Interviewed and text by 採訪及撰文 x Ke Qiwen 柯淇雯 Edited by 編輯 x Michelle Yu 余小悅, Nicolas Anderson The British pop industry only truly started with the Beatles, then we had a proliferation of recording studios, music managers, bands and the whole industry evolved from …
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