Month: April 2016

  • 徐冰 Xu Bing’s phoenixes at the Arsenale, Venice Biennale 2015

    徐冰 Xu Bing’s phoenixes at the Arsenale, Venice Biennale 2015

    Another work we saw in Venice that is worth mentioning. Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰, born 1965) is a Chinese-born artist who lived in the United States for eighteen years. Currently residing in Beijing, he used to serve as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The two installations – The Phoenix – weighing 8…

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  • Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 @ Venice Biennale 2015

    Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 @ Venice Biennale 2015

    This and the following two posts will be about works by individual artists that caught our eyes in Venice. Co-incidentally, the three artists are all of Chinese descent. The first is Qiu Zhijie (邱志杰, 1969) who was invited to participate in the Biennale by the organizer. His work –The Jinling Chronicle Theater Project – was exhibited in…

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