Entries Tagged as ‘Chinese Contemporary Art’

April 3, 2008

7th shanghai biennale to focus on people in dynamic urban space, identity, migration, urbanization, spatial and social boundaries

 The curatorial team of the 2008 Shanghai Biennale have released the theme for this year’s event. Translocalmotion, they’ve called it. What’s all that about then? Well, they all got together and started thinking about people and their conditions in the dynamic urban space. They propose that this year’s Biennale reflects upon  the socio-economic and cultural implications [...]

April 1, 2008

cai guo qiang: i want to beleive

Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang may have once wanted to beleive that his installations would reside in the Guggenheim museum in New York, but now it’s actually happened…. One of my friends was lucky enough to check this exhibition out last week, and he said it was the most amazing thing he’s ever seen in his life.

 

“CAI [...]