Tag: Chen Shaoxiong

  • Artforum Scene & Herd from Shanghai and Guangzhou

    驱车前往广州时代美术馆的路上，窗外时不时飙过一两辆自带改装遮阳伞的电动车。四两拨千斤的改装充满民间智慧：两三伞骨延长形成流线型尾部，符合空气动力学，游走于车河中又很拉风，惹得策展人侯瀚如赞不绝口：“这比扎哈哈迪的设计牛逼多了。”

  • Seeing and Disbelieving: Chen Shaoxiong’s Ink Animation Videos

    Xin Wang, “Seeing and Disbelieving: Chen Shaoxiong’s Ink Animation Videos,” in Modern Art Asia Selected Papers Issues 1-8, edited by Majella Munro (West Sussex: Enzo Arts and Publishing, June 2012), pp. 213-224. Xin Wang essay on Chen Shaoxiong for Modern Art Asia http://www.chenshaoxiong.net/?p=1905 墨水东西/Ink Things,2007,水墨素描/Ink Drawing Since 2005, the now Beijing-based multi-media artist Chen Shaoxiong…

  • Occupying Minds, Not Streets

    “Occupying Minds, Not Streets.” Hyperallergic. May 1, 2012. http://hyperallergic.com/50739/chen-shaoxiong-prepared-strategies-for-activists/ Installation view of “Prepared: Strategies for Activists” (all photos courtesy Chen Shaoxiong) LAWRENCE, Kansas — Mounting an exhibition anywhere in the neighborhood of occupation aesthetics can be precarious nowadays, for people are increasingly fed up with the same reiterations of ideological conceptualism and the ultra-politically correct,…