Saturday, 18 June 2011

Asian contemporary art in Venice June 2011

Asian artists put up a great showing at the Venice 2011 Biennale. This is a small selection of those I enjoyed.

Seen at Future Pass, at the San Gregorio abbey:

黃致陽 Huang Zhi Yang, Taiwanese artist in Beijing
"Auspicious Beast no.1"

孙逊 Sun Xun
, from Hangzhou



猪子寿之 Toshiyuki Inoko from Team Lab Tokyo
"花と屍 Flower and Corpse" 3D virtual animation



楊茂林 Yang Mao Lin, from Taiwan
"The Three Sages in the Ocean of Misery", 2009


"Jataka Tale of Extraordinary Love"


Sea Hyun Lee, Korean artist in London
"Between Red"


邱黯雄 Qiu An Xiong, from SiChuan
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毛旭辉 Mao Xu Hui, from YunNan


施工 Shy Gong, from Taipei
"TaiKe Fantasy" interactive animated neon paintings


Indie Guerillas, from Yogyagarta
"Sons of the Beach"

See also their "Rock'n Roll is our Epiphany", decal and acrylic over wood and iron.

杨福东 Yang Fu Dong from Beijing



缪晓春 Miao Xiao Chun, from Jiangsu, based in Beijing



唐茂宏 Tang Mao Hong, from Guangxi, based in Shanghai, whose video installation below I had already seen at the Singapore Biennale


刘野 Liu Ye from Beijing, channeling Balthus...



Seen at "Cracked Culture? The Quest for Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art" at the Palazzo Giustinian and Convento San Spirito, curated by the Guangdong Museum of Art:

Ma Han, from Beijing
"Plan of the Ants", 2004. Rice, fibreglass, enamel

"Breathing System"


Shi Jindian, from SiChuan, blue steel wire motorcycle sculptures


Feng Feng, from LiaoNing


焦兴涛 Jiao Xing Tao from ChengDu


Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty's Medusa animation,



and Imran Hossain Piplu's Bone Gun, at the Bangladesh pavillion,


which resonates in echo to Jitish Kallat's Royal Enfield Ignitaurus at the Paris-Delhi-Bombay show at Pompidou.