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Interview: Paolo Chiasera, artist and curator
Published by Art International Istanbul, September 2015 For this year’s edition of Art International, artistic director, Stephane Ackermann, has curated a series of performances, installations and...
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A conversation with Matthias Weischer
Published on ocula.com, 2 October 2015 Rising to prominence in the early 2000s after training at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in the East German city of Leipzig, Matthias Weischer is one of...
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Hong Kong Autumn Exhibitions 2015
Published on ocula.com, 17 September 2015 Summer is finally over. Gallerinas have returned from Portofino/Mykonos/Positano/Ibiza with fresh tans regaling regulars with stories of sailing on collectors’...
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Ashes to Ashes: Interview with Daniel Arsham
Published on ocula.com, 25 September 2015 Daniel Arsham arrives in Hong Kong from New York in time to enjoy the last four hours of his birthday, although with his new show, Fictional Archeology, about...
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Neo World (Dis)order
Published in Hong Kong Tatler, October 2015 For three decades German artist Neo Rauch has been one of the leading figurative painters of his generation creating works that offer up a window onto a...
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Wing Shya Photographs Hong Kong Youth
Published in MOTHER IV: LIBERATION, 2015 “We always say in Chinese, young people represent the future: now this sounds far beyond a cliché.” So wrote Wing Shya, when discussing this exclusive new...
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A Conversation with Robin Rhode
Published on ocula.com, 26 October 2015 For the past couple of decades Berlin has become an international art world Mecca attracting more than 20,000 artists from around the world, including some of...
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A Song of Old and New: Interview with Song Dong
At the height of its heady sprint towards modernity in the 1990s, Beijing’s urban landscape transformed rapidly, rendering it almost unrecognisable to the generation before. The horizon was crammed...
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A conversation with Georg Baselitz
Published on ocula.com, 13 November 2015 ‘I begin with an idea, but as I work the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived … and the picture that fights for its...
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Idioms of Identity
After a decade out of the Paris spotlight, Chinese contemporary art returns to centre stage with two exhibitions presented by the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Diana d’Arenberg Parmanand visits the studios...
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The Art and Soul of Hong Kong
Published in Destinations of the World, Dubai, February 2016 As Hong Kong gears up for the thought-provoking art and fabulous parties of Art Basel next month, Diana d’Arenberg examines the...
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A conversation with Manuel Pelmuş
Published on ocula.com, February 16, 2016 Among the crowd of familiar faces sipping champagne at Para Site’s fundraising auction preview late last year, a young man lay on the ground in the middle of...
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Nicholas Hlobo: Out of Africa
First published in 2011 With a string of high profile exhibitions and collections, Nicholas Hlobo has quickly crossed over from the ranks of rising stars to being one of the most sought after young...
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A conversation with Adeline Ooi
Published on 17 March 2016, on ocula.com Art Basel Hong Kong has started early this year. I don’t mean just the dates, which have been pushed forward from May to March. I mean inboxes are already...
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A Conversation with Uli Sigg
Published on ocula.com, 18 March 2016 When Sydney art dealer Ray Hughes visited Swiss collector Uli Sigg at his Mauensee residence near Lucerne some years ago, a mutual friend asked the dealer how the...
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Art Basil (sic) Hong Kong
Published on ocula.com, 31 March 2016 I was Brainwashed the Friday before Art Basel Hong Kong kicked off. French street artist, Mr. Brainwash, was holding court—to an audience full of Hong Kong society...
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Hong Kong Spring Exhibitions
Published on ocula.com, 14 April 2016 Afterwork at Para Site 19 March to 29 May 2016 In a city where the problems and issues facing migrant workers—who make up approximately 4% of the population, and...
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A Conversation with Wu Tsang
Published on ocula.com, 21 April 2016 One of the wonderful things about meeting many artists and writing their stories, is that you get to lose yourself in their world, and the world of images that...
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Berlin, Boners and Brecht
Published on ocula.com, 7 June 2016 Apparently my timing sucks. One week too late for Berlin Gallery Weekend, and one month too early for the Berlin Biennale. ‘You should have been here last weekend...
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Wu Tsang: Duilian
Published in Artomity, Summer 2016 In 2005, Massachusetts-born, LA-based performance artist Wu Tsang set off for China to trace her ethnic roots. Her father, who was born in Chongqing, fled China as a...
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