Monthly Archives: November 2010

Jumaldi Alfi shifts from painting to installation with Life/Art # 10

Posted on November 16, 2010

Jumaldi Alfi’s exhibition “Life/Art # 101: Never Ending Lessons” was presented by Valentine Willie Fine Art (VWFA) and was displayed in the Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in October this year. The exhibition includes nine “blackboard” paintings, an installation of a skeleton on a wooden boat and a video. Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Gallery shows, Indonesian, Installation, Jumaldi Alfi, Malaysia, Painting, Words | Tagged Annexe Gallery, Anselm Kiefe, blackboard paintings, blackboards, Elena Nikolaeva, expressionist, expressionist painting, German militarism, Indonesia, Indonesian artists, Indonesian High School of the Arts, Indonesian Institute of Arts in Jogja, installation, Jogjakarta, Jumaldi Alfi, Kuala Lumpur, Life/Art # 101: Never Ending Lessons, Lintau, Martin Kippenberger, Minangkabau, Painting, personal experiences, Pink Floyd, poetic, poetry, post-War German artists, quotes, skeletons, Video art, West Sumatra, wooden boat, word association, words in art | Leave a comment

Art world big boys attend second Abu Dhabi art

Posted on November 16, 2010

Abu Dhabi Art, a fair now in it’s second year, has quickly “come of age” reports Abu Dhabi-focussed English-language paper The National. Attracting big name artists, museum-quality artworks and playing host to representatives from the world’s major galleries, the fair has placed “itself squarely on the world art map and [is] making its presence felt.” Continue reading →

Posted in Business of art, Events, Fairs, UAE | Tagged Abu Dhabi art, American artists, art collectors, art fairs, art fairs in Asia, art galleries, art reviews, Cézanne, Damien Hirst, East, European artists, Fernand Léger, international galleries, Kate Nicholson, local galleries, London, Matisse, Middle East, new york, Pace Gallery, Paradise Row, Paris, Peter Boris, Picasso, Rami Farook, Robert Rauschenberg, Shezad Dawood, The National, Tim Marlow, Timur Moon, top international galleries, Traffic, UAE, West, White Cube | 2 Comments

Discover reality with Indian sculptor Alwar Balasubramaniam on TED

Posted on November 16, 2010

Alwar Balasubramaniam (1971) is an Indian artist who works and lives in Bangalore. In a TED Talks video, ‘Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of Substance and Absence’, he explores his inspirations and the “inherent” qualities of objects that he challenges through his work. Here we profile a number of the works he discusses in the video and reveal the theories behind them. Continue reading →

Posted in Indian, Installation, Sculpture, Videos | Tagged 3D photograph, air freshener, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of Substance and Absence, art videos, artist talk, artist video interview, artist video talk, contemporary indian art, contemporary indian artists, Elena Nikolaeva, Emerging Angels, evaporating sculpture, Indian art, Indian installation art, Indian sculpture, installation, installation art, installation artists, Limit Out, Odonil, perception, reality, sculptor, sculpture, Self in Progress, senses, shadow, Shadow Foreshadow, TED, TED Talks, TED videos | Leave a comment

Christie’s provides first-hand view of top Indonesian artists – event alert

Posted on November 15, 2010

This one’s for Hong Kong-based lovers of contemporary Southeast Asian art. Visualising Indonesia – A Curatorial Journey is part of Christie’s Autumn 2010 Lecture Series in Hong Kong and an event we highly recommend those in the city try to get to. Speaker Enin Supriyanto, an independent curator and writer based in Jogjakarta will speak on the top artists of the region from his position “as an active observer of the local art scene.” Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Indonesian, Lectures and talks, Resources, Southeast Asian | Tagged art education, art events, art lectures, art professionals, art talks, art writer, Christie's Autumn 2010 Lecture Series, Christies, Collectors, Enin Supriyanto, hong kong, independent curator, Indonesia art, Indonesian artists, Resources, Southeast Asian art, Southeast Asian artists, Visualising Indonesia - A Curatorial Journey, writer | Leave a comment

Great gifts: 7 books on Chinese contemporary art

Posted on November 14, 2010

The Chinese contemporary art market is booming! Sotheby’s record-breaking auctions in Hong Kong last month have proved that this is a market anyone working in or collecting Asian contemporary art can stand to know more about. To help, we’ve rounded up seven books we know will have you clued up in no time on the top artists working in China today. Fill your shelves or those of others with any of these essential books these holidays. Continue reading →

Posted in Chinese, From Art Radar, Resources | Tagged 60 Years of Chinese Art: Contemporary Art in the People's Republic of China (1949-2009), Ai Weiwei, Amazon, art books, Art Radar Asia Store, Asian Contemporary Art, auctions, China, Chinese art specialists, Chinese artists, Chinese contemporary art, Chinese contemporary art market, Chinese Ink Painting Now, Christoph Heinrich, Christoph Noe, Contemporary China - An Introduction, Cordelia Steiner, Does Price Matter?: A Critical Assessment Of Prices In The Contemporary Chinese Art Market, DVDs, Fang Lijun, Feng Boyi, gadgets, gifts, holiday gifts, holiday presents, hong kong, Hou Hanru, Jason Kuo, Li Xianting, Linlin Chen, Long River Press, magazine subscriptions, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art From The Sigg Collection, market analysis, Michael Dillon, online buying, Pi Li, Pippa Dennis, presents, Resources, Shen Shaomin, Sothebys, The Revolution Continues: New Art from China, The Saatchi Gallery, top artists, uli sigg, Wang Guangyi, Xenia Piech, Xu Bing, Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation, Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang | 2 Comments

Art Stage Singapore to tap into growing Southeast Asian collector base

Posted on November 9, 2010

Art Stage Singapore will soon be joining the international art fair circuit. The event is planned for January 2011, to be held at the New Marina Bay Sands Water Front Development. ART iT conducted an interview with Lorenzo Rudolf, the director of Art Stage Singapore, the former director of Art Basel, inventor of Art Basel Miami Beach and co-creator of Shanghai Contemporary. We summarise the interview with Lorenzo Rudolf in which he discusses the plans for Art Stage Singapore and the potential for the development of a regional art market. Continue reading →

Posted in Fairs, Interviews, Singapore | Tagged 2011, Alice Nava, Art Basel, art collectors, art competition, art fair, art fairs, Art iT, art market, art news, Art Radar, Art Stage Singapore, asia, Asia Pacific, Asian art, Chinese artists, Chinese contemporary art, contemporary art, exhibition, gallery, government, hong kong, Hong Kong art, Hong Kong art fair, international galleries, Lorenzo Rudolf, National Arts Council, provate museums, public art, regional, Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Singapore art fair, storage places | Leave a comment

140 not enough: Powerhouse favours Facebook over Twitter in social media experiment

Posted on November 9, 2010

While not strictly related to contemporary or visual art in Asia, we thought this social media experiment undertaken by Powerhouse Museum in Sydney was worth highlighting. The museum took part in Ask a Curator Day, a global activity that utilises the wonders of social media as a primary avenue for museum curators and audiences to interact. While Twitter is generally the favoured communication platform on this day, Powerhouse made the decision to focus on Facebook instead – Twitter’s 140 character restriction was revealed to make any real discussion difficult. Continue reading →

Posted in Art and the Internet, Australia, Curators, Events, Museums | Tagged audience, Australia, Carmela Sagritalo, curators, Erika Dicker, interactive, museum, Powerhouse Museum, Renae Mason, social media, Sydney, Technology | Leave a comment

Critics can’t fault Pakistani artist Rashid Rana’s Guimet show

Posted on November 9, 2010

Pakistani artist Rashid Rana, 42 is exhibiting twenty-seven sculptures and photomontages in his retrospective called “Perpetual Paradox” at the Musée Guimet in Paris. Born in Lahore, and working in Lahore, Rana is known for documenting paradoxes and contradictions. We round-up the immediate critical response to the show. Continue reading →