Will Things Ever Get Better? –A Discussion between Chen Jiaying and Xiang Jing, Part IV
Artwork is like an object that stands as evidence of your thinking in a certain period of time, at least for the artist as an individual. What I’ve always worried about is, aside from its significance to me, can artwork carry anything else?
Will Things Ever Get Better? –A Discussion between Chen Jiaying and Xiang Jing, Part III
It seems that we no longer use those monumental methods to perceive the achievements of an individual. Instead, we look for the traces they leave behind. That monumental way of viewing world history and individuals is gone.
Several States of Zhan Wang’s Creation: Sonorous, Zeroing, Confronting and Moderate (Part II & III)
Having experienced such transition from ‘aerial viewer’ to ‘eye level viewer’, Zhan’s angle of view is different from the norm...
“Summer Palace” Era and I
What I care about is that age, a lot of angry youths, the love of that era, because it is romantic. Zhang Yiwu said that communism is really just a good idea and a romantic commitment, extreme ideal is extreme unreality, it may never come true, but we cannot deny the process of human beings...
Viewed Tibetan
When Chen Danqing's "Tibetan Group Picture" received success, a constant stream of artists entered the Tibetan area for life drawing which still continues today. It is understandable that the city's modern industrial civilization is tiresome, artists hope to recombine their visual structure to provoke a different kind of inspiration in Tibet's original ecological environment and...
“Intimation and Illusion”—Taking “Yellow Signal” for instance to comment on the artistic language of borrowing and ambiguity of Wang Jianwei
Wang's works hide familiar daily experiences which are then modified and makes the viewer's experience uncomfortable.
Will Things Ever Get Better? –A Discussion between Chen Jiaying and Xiang Jing, Part II
This world brings me great pain, and I don’t think I can use what I have now to help the future of the world. Sometimes, art seems like an utopian dream world, where each artist rushes to successfully erect a new world before the old one collapses. I’m always squeezed between such ideals and depressed...
Return to “The Primitive”
Artists who focusing on life and take up the mission of the time would shuttle between several roles as artist, sociologist and even philosopher raise the "issues around us" one by one. Issues happen between us, maybe not every time, both film and painting can touch the wound and clean the mind, just like a...
Lin Tianmiao’s Language of Thread and the Meaning
"Thread" as depicted Lin Tianmiao's artistic language lies not only in her memories, but is also reflected in her aesthetic orientation, individual characteristics and social conditions.
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