Art News

2013-11
“Rendering” @ Aike-Dellarco
 
This group show features easel paintings from four, rather divergent artists. They are: Hangzhou-born Tang Dixin, who is perhaps best known for his “plaster cast” installations; Zhou Siwei, whose colourful depictions of people or other objects often appear unnervingly deconstructed; Hong Kong’s Chow Chun Fai, an occasional political candidate and consistently political artist; and Toshiyuki Konishi, whose abstract family portraits ooze with emotion.
“Rendering” runs until 20 November at Aike- Dellarco, Room 102, Bldg 0, 50 Moganshan Lu. Tel: 5252 7164. Email: shanghai@ aikedellarco.com. Web: www.dearco.it
 
Sun Yu Solo Exhibition @ FQ Projects
 
SunYuisan emerging artist on many people’s list of “most likely”. In the past three years, his talent has evolved and his most recent pieces demonstrate an ever-maturing progression in his work. Though these paintings appear simple enough on the surface, closer inspection reveals and ominous core beneath.
 
One section of the exhibition is given over to Sun Yu’s “Black Mountain” series of paintings, depicting a village on the outskirts of Beijing yet to be impacted by the capital’s ever-expanding development drive.
Sun Yu’s Solo Exhibition runs until 20 December at FQ Projects, No. 76, Lane 927 Huaihai Zhong Lu, near Nanchang Lu. Tel: 6466 2940. Web: www.fqprojects.com
 
 

“Gazing the Mountain” @ AroundSpace Gallery

This is ink artist Ding Beili’s first solo exhibition and a good opportunity to check out a modern take on the ancient Chinese art form. The scenery she depicts in her ink paintings is subtle, layered and, in many ways, serene.

Though Ding Beili’s style has a modern sensibility, her paintings could be showing us a Chinese mountain today, or as it stood a thousand years ago.

“Gazing the Mountain” runs from 16 November to 31 December at AroundSpace Gallery, Suite 703, 33 Sichuan Zhong Lu, near Guangdong Lu. Tel: 138 0174 3061. Web: www.aroundspace.org
 
“Surface, Material, Motion” @ Vanguard Gallery
 
A solo show from Liao Fei, an artist renowned for taking a scientific approach to his artistic endeavors, this time it’s sport being put under the microscope. Football, snooker, softball and hockey are all man- made pastimes designed to use the striking of a ball within a designated field of play. Sport, in Liao Fei’s world, can be used as a metaphor for life, in which we are all part of the material in motion on the surface of the planet.
“Surface, Material, Motion” runs until 5 January, 2014, at Vanguard Gallery, Room 204, Bldg 4A, 50 Moganshan Lu. Tel: 6299 3523. Web: www.vanguardgallery.com