Last week, the third Frieze Los Angeles Art Fair opened, and the art scene came alive again. International galleries such as Zona Gallery and Lison Gallery have announced the location of new spaces in Los Angeles, and the West Coast art market is extremely hot. Continuing to write the legend of contemporary art in the language of science and technology, the crypto art platform Outland debuted Fang Lijun's NFT work Elemental on the 22nd. Star Space held Tong Tianqing "Liangchen", Tsuruya Bookstore launched "Wang Maosha: Painting Realm", in case space launched "Vol.1 Zhou Li" and so on. This week, the weather is clear, and several exhibitions have opened, soothing people with the small tentacles of art.
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Frieze Los Angeles Art Fair opens
Spotlight on the West Coast Art Market
After a year of disruption due to the pandemic, the third edition of Frieze Los Angeles kicked off again. The venue for the fair was moved from Paramount Pictures Studios to 9900 Wilshire Avenue in Beverly Hills. The number of exhibitors increased from 70 in previous editions to more than 100, allowing Frieze Los Angeles to move from a medium-sized art fair to a large-scale art fair. Curated by Amanda Hunt, the Focus LA section discovers more famous artists and rising stars from California, presenting the vibrant art world of Los Angeles. The new director, Christine Messino, said, "I hope that this year's Fritz Los Angeles will inherit the city's artistic spirit, illuminate and connect these works of art, and become an important part of the city's cultural landscape." ”
Zona Gallery announces its presence in Los Angeles
Gallery giant Nuggets West Coast
As the international art community flocked to Los Angeles for the Frieze Art Fair. Recently, David Zwirner Gallery announced plans to open a gallery in Los Angeles. Los Angeles-based Alexandra Tuttle has been hired as senior director and will co-operate the new los Angeles space with Robert Goff, Zona's senior director. The new space will open in January 2023. Gallery founder David Zona said, "Our audience in Los Angeles and the West Coast has grown exponentially in recent years, so I feel like we're in the right place. ”
Start a new partnership
World Photography Acquires a 25% stake in Photo London
As an international platform focused on the medium of photography, The World Photography Organisation will acquire a 25% stake in Photo London and establish a new partnership with it. The partnership aims to leverage the shared resources of world photography and Photo London to provide galleries, artists and collectors with more opportunities to engage and discover the art of photography in order to continue to drive the development of the contemporary photographic art market. Scott Gray, founder of the World Photography Organisation and CEO of The Shanghai Art Fair, said: "The collaboration will expand Photo London's influence in the Asia-Pacific region, while also helping artists and galleries in the Asia-Pacific region to gain more exposure in Europe. ”
Continue to write the legend of contemporary art in the language of science and technology
Fang Lijun's NFT work Elemental was first released in Outland
New exhibition "Stop" at The Leeson Gallery
Create an ocean of immersive flowers
On February 24, Riesen Gallery Shanghai hosts Swedish artist duo Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg's latest exhibition, Stop. The artist is known for clay animated films with alluded psychological symbols and innovative and bold sculptures. This exhibition is the result of the exhibition "The Moon Wrapped in Kraft Paper" by the two artists at prada Rong House in Shanghai, presenting 14 new sculptures and 1 carbon pen animation work, inviting the audience to step into the immersive exhibition landscape and delve into the ocean of flowers, so as to visually present desire and confusion, admiration and regret, perfection and flaws.
Beijing
Tong Tianqing "Good Day"
Depicts the coexistence of barbarism and poetry
On February 15th, artist Tong Tianqing's third solo exhibition "Liangchen" in Star Space was opened. The solo exhibition continues his continuous excavation of images and words, and returns to those daily life scenes that have been recorded, presenting a series of ten new ink paintings in two series in a straightforward style and a minimalist way. In a number of works that can be compared with murals, Tong Tianqing excavates the dualistic opposites of different dimensions - "timelessness" and "certainty", "we" and "them", "material fragility" and "metaphorical eternity", and so on. Between superficial ornamentation and the inner spiritual world, those barbarisms coexist with poetry.
Border Walking Guide
Revisit technical images
Magic Stone Space launched the artist's group exhibition "Border Walking Guide". The exhibition is a re-interview with a technical image, a walk between the image and the cranial nerve. Guo Cheng connects grand issues with seemingly random objects, providing a critical perspective for imagination and discussion. Xin Liu's recent research has focused on vertical space, extraterrestrial exploration, and cosmic metabolism. Liu Explores how digital media influence our contemporary narratives and the reconstruction of collective memory. Tarak focuses on ontological issues of form, object, aesthetics, and systems. Wu Qiyu looks for ways to reconstruct the connection between people, things, animals and the world in the ruins destroyed by techno-capitalism. Through digital images and non-traditional materials, Zhiwei explores the interdependence between image making, painting behavior and surfaces.
Mountain Art launched a double solo exhibition of father and son files
Different generations have been on each other's boats and shores
Mountain Art hosts a double solo exhibition by artists Kang Youhe and Kang Heming, "Boat and Shore Between Us". Through the presentation of father and son files, in the very different creative styles, the influence and changes brought about by different generations can be seen. Kang Youhe was famous for painting Lotus in his early days, and may have been obsessed with the pictures and details of Lotus because of his name. Kang Heming, who is a post-90s generation, has been exposed to a lot of anime-related information since he was a child, and there are vivid contemporary elements in many of his works. Curator Lin Zheng said, "The various confrontations and dialogues between the two, mutual concern and companionship, are all processes that make the edges and corners of the two artists infinitely close to the circle. ”
Li Jing's solo exhibition "Repetition"
Explore irreducible differences
Artist Li Jing's solo exhibition "Repetition" opened in Cheng Contemporary Art Space. The exhibition is titled "Repetition", which intends to reproduce the same object in the repetitive labor. The solo exhibition presents six groups of works, including three palette series, one untitled work, one set of works of integrated materials on paper and one set of installations. Li Jing manually copies the image of the previous one, that is, the abstract image she created is painted again. Between the copied image and the irreducible, is a crack and a difference. "Repetition" is actually to explore the differences in the process of repetition, in order to explore various unknown possibilities, so the process of repetition is also a process of speculation.
Shanghai
Wang Mengsha "Painting Realm"
Express symbolic space-time illusions
On February 19th, young artist Wang Mengsha's ink painting exhibition "Flower Mirror" opened at Taikoo Li Tsut House Bookstore in Qiantan, Shanghai, with Chen Rui, curator of the Art Museum of Nanjing Academy of the Arts, as the curator, presenting eight ink masterpieces created by Wang Mengsha this year, as well as the latest publication "Events in My Universe" and art derivatives. Wang Mengsha is shaped by "heart eyes", far larger than the butterflies of the characters, the lake stones floating in the air, etc. Her paintings focus on freehand, with the concept of Chinese cultural modeling, presenting an essential oriental illusion in poetic expression, conveying the cosmic sense of the East in metaphysical and flat shapes, using ancient themes to organize into a new symbol of time and space with oriental symbolism.
Shenzhen
Wanli does not pick a Vol.1 week force
Build the world inside and outside the window
In case the space launches a new series of projects "Ten Thousand Miles Do Not Pick One", artist Zhou Li is the main exhibitor of the first issue of "Ten Thousand Miles Do Not Pick One". The exhibition presents Zhou Li's artworks, with the context of real daily life, and for the first time, the public exhibits the artist's rich collection across multiple disciplines, jointly presenting the artist Zhou Li's aesthetic materialization and the world of consciousness. Zhou Li said, "The reason why art exists is to make people restore their feelings about life, just to make people feel things, so that the stone shows the texture of the stone." Through the juxtaposition of collections and works, we not only understand Zhou Li as an artist, but also as a "fetish", a teacher, a mother, a woman, and an ordinary person.
The deceased
Artist Dan Graham dies
The famous artist Dan Graham (1942-2022) died in New York on February 19, 2022, at the age of 80. As one of the world's foremost contemporary artists, Graham is deeply involved in the history of post-war contemporary art in the United States, and his innovation and creativity have always allowed him to be active at the forefront of the development of contemporary art. Since the 1970s, Graham's practice has focused on the creation of public building installations, which he calls "pavilions"—steel structures made of geometric flat glass and double-sided mirrors. Graham hopes that his structures will act like punctuation, bringing pauses or changes to spatial experiences, providing a brief pastime for romance or games, or as a place for activities such as reading and watching videos.
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