China
Hello!
It’s Liya here.
China has been my home for almost 15 years. For the past eight years, I have been writing about Asian contemporary art and (co)curating group and solo exhibitions for the art galleries I’ve worked at. I have been a contributing writer at Art Radar Journal, stayinart, and CNcreate.
I’ve been lucky to find myself in the middle of the sprawling Chinese contemporary art scene and work with some of the incredible emerging and up-and-coming artists. Seeing and writing about their work has been an insightful journey.
Work with me if you need an article or a press release for your upcoming exhibition, a profile on an artist, or an art show review.
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Working closely with the visitors of the galleries has been an enlightening experience that inspired me to found Spotted: a small company in Shanghai that sees its mission in bringing art closer to the hearts and minds of people. By offering approaches and practices to art lovers and exhibition-goers to connect with art more intimately and profoundly, we strive to turn each experience of looking at art into something memorable and invigorating.
Therefore, I have been focusing my latest research and writing on the subject of LOOKING AT ART.
Drop me a line if your art space is looking for ways to entice more visitors to explore your collection and if you wish to have more content that facilitates the visitors to engage with the art on view.
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P.S. References and more samples are available upon request.
Hu Weiqi's visual idiom is full of allusions, associations, references that are straightforward on the one hand, confusing on the other. Allusive graphic-painterly code tends to conceal more than it reveals. It also speaks to the viewers directly as it is best seen from an areal view - the perspective Hu Weiqi endues the viewers with that most people in his paintings have no access to.
He Jian is a true poet of the everyday world of routine and repetition, the household interiors, the life on the table, the artifacts that surround humans, and their unhurried unremarkable existence. He awards the events that are not at all large-scale, forgettable instances and trivial acts of bodily survival, self-maintenance, or petty entertainment with charm and singularity. Some of the portrayed events are more significant than others, like weddings, or new life circumstances brought by...
Viewing Wang Haichuan's works is much like free-diving into the subconscious of one’s mind, imagination, or memories, where the depth and duration of each dive depend on one’s ability to hold breath, concentrate and marvel quietly at the wonders rising before one’s eyes, with each dive presenting surprises previously unnoticed. Wang Haichuan's unique talent to create compositions that change while being looked at allows backgrounds to metamorphose into foregrounds (and vice versa) revealing...
It is often a sense of urgency that many of us look for in art, especially since there has been so much calculation and theory in the works of contemporary artists of the last few decades. In Nanchuan, we encounter this kind of inborn urgency to be an artist, to create, sketch, and paint because he cannot help but do that. “I am no good for anything else but painting,” in a casual but very determined manner comments a young artist. Painting ever since he was a 2-year-old boy, he has taken a...
A relentless portrayer of contemporaneity, Ye Hongxing is a fearless experimenter, a polymath who picks up any media of her choosing and creates a piece of art that inspires awe, be it an intricate oil painting, a series of marble sculptures, staggering colorful installations, or sticker and stone collages.
It is the urgent need to reflect upon her life experiences, blissful moments of enlightenment and stupefying uncertainty; it is the quietness of contemplation and bewilderment of obsession; it is the feeling of entanglement, inflicted by ignorance; it is the breathtaking freedom, extorted from the fearless yet painful process of facing herself that drive Liu Xi's sculptural practice.
Art is always a reaction to the preirod of time in which it's made. No art is 'timeless', any artist who refuses to accept this insight and attempts to escape from the present day risks artistic failure.
Eight Immortals is a new series of paintings from the renowned artist duo, inviting the viewer to sail alongside peculiar passengers exploring unknown islands, marvel at the skyline of the world’s busiest cosmopolites, drift in quiet bays and lagoons, and stopover at white sandy beaches. More importantly, this exhibition teases the complexities of Tamen+’s new multilayered pictorial reality, examines the depths attainable by an inquisitive mind, and hints at themes that resonate in our...
Kunst ist immer eine Reaktion auf die Umstände ihrer Zeit. Sie ist nie „zeitlos" - und Kunstschaffende, die diese Einsicht ablehnen und der Gegenwart zu entfliehen versuchen, riskieren unweigerlich zu scheitern.