Friday, November 14, 2008
Kwun Tong is an industrial neighborhood on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbor — a long way from the galleries clustered near Hong Kong’s Hollywood Road. I have a feeling that this choice of location was intended to put both physical and symbolic distance between Osage Gallery and the oft-underwhelming work on display across the [...]
Coal Miner, oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm / 98.42 x 78.74 in
Migrant Worker, oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm / 98.42 x 78.74 in
Chinese painter Xu Weixin paints moving portraits of Chinese workers. Showing now at China Squaren.
To coincide with our travels in Southern China, thought I’d post some Edward Burtynsky photos. He also has a show at the Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery currently.
Bao Steel - 02, 2005, Shanghai
Manufacturing - 04, 2005, Factory Worker Dormitory, Dongguan, Guangdong Province
Manufacturing - 17, 2005, Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province
China Recycling - 02, [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
A new addition to the Historical Fiction Press catalogue. Eriko Miyagawa’s casting photos from the Kite Runner, a film she worked on over a year ago. The photos feature faces of ethnic minorities from the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang. When we saw the photos, we were amazed by the diversity of ethnicities, ages and [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
This was dinner at the mall on the first night. HK cream soda should be exported to Europe and the rest of the world.
Interesting mix of the old and new with the shiny gigantic building in the background and what looks like a Venetian courtyard amidst lots of rubble in the foreground.
Had the [...]
Monday, September 8, 2008
Great article in the New York Times by Nicolai Ouroussoff about the architect Lebbeus Woods.
Some critics condemned the design for its coldblooded imagery. But it also turned cold-war Modernism on its head. In the 1950s American architects were striving to retool wartime military production for the construction of a peacetime paradise. One result was [...]
Friday, September 5, 2008
Rong Rong started the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, housed in a massive Ai Wei Wei designed complex. He often works with his wife, Inri, on photographic projects and the two of them have a new show up at Three Shadows. Titled “From Six Mile Village to Three Shadows,” the works will delicately [...]
in China…
Swedish artist Joakim Eneroth is featured in a book from Art and Photographs UK entitled Testimony. The images document instruments of torture smuggled out of China by a Tibetan monk who was a prisoner there for 33 years. There are of course two sides to the Tibetan conflict in China, but these photos capture [...]
One Small Point of Pride (ospop) has introduced a line of Chinese workers’ shoes to the rest of the world. Tian Lang work shoes are found on the feet of legions of blue collar and construction workers in China. Like the Warrior Shoes, these shoes are popular because they’re cheap and sturdy. Ben Walters, the [...]
Some nice Olympics-related advertising from China. Agency is Leo Burnett in Shanghai.