Author Archives: jolanta

In this interview, Mao Xu-Hui, important participant of ’85 New Wave, primary organizer of New Figurative Movement and Southwest Art Research Group, talks about the essential reason for his consecutive experiments and change of painting languages since the beginning of his artistic creation in 1973. That is to respect history, to respect individual survival experience, […]

At the invitation of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, acclaimed American artist Collier Schorr, whose multimedia practice explores appropriated identities and performance, has created a group exhibition that is at once a self-portrait and a riveting display of some of the most vital trends in contemporary U.S.-based art. From her position as a visual artist, […]

It’s hard to think of many found-object artists who have achieved works as intricately made, culturally resonant, and visually sumptuous as El Anatsui’s. Anatsui was born 1944 in Anyako, Ghana. Anatsui earned a bachelor’s degree in sculpture and a postgraduate diploma in art education from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is […]

I try, always try, to create a space where I can probe my identities vis-à-vis the world around me. Using a wide range of mediums, I often attempt to explore the world of illusion against a background of memory, a memory nearly always based on reality. By sensing and exposing a metaphorical world that hides […]

Anything but a manifestation of “collective subconsciousness,” the seven works of Yin Xiu-Zhen in Beijing Commune could almost be seen as a collection of mischievous suggestions and devices that the artist has dreamed up from everyday experience to tackle the frictions of a collective way of life. Lu Ying-Hua Translated by Song Yang Yin Xiu-Zhen, […]