Ping Zheng: Artist with a Liberating Palette
Ping Zheng—aka Zheng Ping—can lay claim to a remarkable trajectory in pursuit of what rightfully expects to be perfection in her art, a completeness or wholeness that goes beyond colour and content. It’s an inner thing, you see, which is neither necessary for you, the viewer, fully to understand or indeed immediately to have available to you, or at all, any time soon, or ever. Sure, it’d be great if you attained it, but...
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...
Vay Hy’s nature abstracts
Gallerist Christine Park opens a new London space, Christine Park Gallery, 10 September 2014 with an exhibition of abstract ink paintings by Vay Hy. In works inspired by nature and organic forms Vay Hy, originally from China, appears to have distilled his experience of travel in China including Tibet, Thailand and Vietnam as well as the vagaries of weather in London. Vay Hy. 10 September – 10 October 2014. Christine Park...
China Institute launched at SOAS
The University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has launched a China Institute, a response to the growing interest in the East Asian country and its numerous facets that offer opportunities for new research. The institute cited more than 40 affiliated academics working across the various SOAS departments who are involved with “interdisciplinary, critically informed research and teaching on China.”...