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We are excited to present two exclusive paintings by artist Li Tianbing that continue his exploration of fiction and reality, past vs. present and the frontier between his own authenticity and invention. With Self Portrait Underwater (title image), Li’s oil on canvas work perfectly captures his ...
Posted: March 29th, 2016
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About Armen Agop Age: 47 | Nationality: Egyptian | Passion: Life | Influencers: The sun Worse project: I forgot it | Greatest achievement: I haven’t achieved it yet | Future dreams: Awareness You were born in Egypt from Armenian descent. You are now ...
Posted: March 5th, 2016
Category: Interviews, News, Voices
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Chun Kwang Young is an artist who actively sought for a mode of expression that would be authentic to him and his native background. Shortly after he graduated from Hongik University in 1968 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts, Chun relocated to the United States to further his education. Despite the ...
Posted: February 20th, 2016
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“My work seeks to portray movement, elegance and the impact of powerful visuals within flexible dimensions, where all these aesthetic components coincide with the key elements of classical art. Eventually, I gravitated towards the classical style for these reasons.” At first glance, Fu Lei’s ...
Posted: February 18th, 2016
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A lot of debate centered around modern and contemporary art has been based on the problem of meaning. Since the demise of representational art, philosophers and art critics have wrestled with the problem of finding meaning in the abstract. From Emmanuel Kant to Roland Barthes, Clement Greenberg to ...
Posted: February 5th, 2016
Category: Exhibitions, Voices
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Chen Guangwu produces only calligraphy. His approach is simply the act of writing a word. And repeating it, and then repeating other words similar to it. Simple though his work may appear, there is nothing simple about the art of calligraphy upon which it is based. This is a skill acquired ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Voices
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Art historian Michael Peppiatt, occasionally relates an anecdote of his time at Cambridge, studying art history in the 1960s. Briefly summarised, the curriculum didn’t think much of anything after the Renaissance, viewing everything since as a long, slow decline from that glorious golden age, a ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
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The exploration of boundaries is an endeavour that many have tried their hand at in this age of literacy. During the Renaissance period, clear and defined boundaries were created to compartmentalize different categories and movements of art. For example, the Impressionists followed a guideline of ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Voices
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Acclaimed American artist Peter Halley’s distinctive geometric paintings are visual icons of the unprecedented physical isolation and oppression that characterize our urbanized and digitalized age. His minimalist iconography of cellblocks connected by conduit motifs evokes post-industrial ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Voices
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With her dramatic technique and a talent for storytelling, Adriana Molder has crafted a strong reputation as a profound, through-provoking artist. Born in Lisbon in 1975, Molder has had a penchant for drama and cinema since her youth. This initially lead her to the theatre, where she completed a ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
Category: Exhibitions, Voices
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After decades of travel and observation, Malaysian-born but Singaporean-based photographer and filmmaker Sherman Ong has built a strong rhetoric on the theme of origin, migration and diaspora. His own experience of migration came fairly early, when as a teenager he was uprooted from his home in ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
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Traditional Miniature painting (title photo) traces its lineage to Mughal India, Iran and Turkey and continues to be practised there today but it has evolved into a new genre in Pakistan with its own identity and aesthetics. Known as contemporary miniature painting or neo-miniature, this ...
Posted: February 3rd, 2016
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