London’s Chinese Visual Festival
London’s annual Chinese Visual Festival has announced its fifth cycle, running from 7 to 22 May 2015, highlighting new strides in Chinese art including cinema and experimental video from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan as well as Singapore. Festival events will take place at King’s College London, British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank, Bertha DocHouse and Chelsea College of Arts. This year’s highlights include events featuring...
Wang Huangsheng at the October Gallery
Wang Huangsheng, the academic and painter and a leading proponent of modern interpretations of traditional Chinese ink painting, will have his first individual exhibition in London at the October Gallery (14 May – 20 June 2015). Wang Huangsheng: Unbroken Line is a culmination of many years of exhibiting outside China, with major shows in Europe and elsewhere being followed or preceded by works being collected in public museums and by...
Central Asian artists showcased
Emerging and established artists from Central Asia and the Caucasus who are working in diverse styles are showcased in an exhibition at Studio65A, a small new venue in London SW14. The artists, selected by Dr Rahima Abduvalieva (pictured), were picked from a private collection and include Yristanbek Shygaev, Baltabay Babpyshulu and K Miskenbaev, from Kyrgyzstan; Qulixane Javoev from Kazakhstan; Nigmat Juraev from Tajikistan; Bahtiyor...
Very Important People at EOA.Projects
London’s EOA.Projects gallery brings together a starcast of contemporary artists from the East and the West, including hyphenated Americans and Europeans, in its new exhibition with the promising title, Very Important People, a cunning spelling-out of VIP, which usually stands for a Very Important Person. The playful licence with the much hyped and supremely abused acronym is a promising start. The exhibition features the work...
Meditations on paper: Wang Ai at Hua Gallery
Wang Ai’s works on paper, including craft surfaces based on rice and bark, are travelogues of the mind which invite the viewer to join in. A full appreciation of these meditations on paper represents a veritable challenge in the lively milieu of an opening night and, on a quiet day at a gallery, a demanding exercise when a visitor is assailed by competing visions of art and all that surrounds it. The artist, poet and fiction...
Art amidst endless war
While mainstream media remain (not so strangely) silent or less vocal than they ought to be, the destructive impact on life and society of the ‘war on terror’ in its various manifestations is increasingly the subject of good — not just polemical — art. The Mosaic Rooms in London makes a strong presentation in a selection of David Birkin’s various works on the subject and associated topics of censorship,...