As Seen is a series of publications that review the work of Chinese artists as presented in public museums and galleries in China. As Seen is not exhaustive, but it is the result of extensive exhibition-going. With particular focus on the achievements of young artists, As Seen 3 continues to track the pulse of the times as it underscores artistic content and form.
Karen Smith，has been writing about the contemporary art scene in China since the early 1990s. She has lived in China for more than twenty years during which time she has contributed her writings to numerous international and domestic publications and exhibition catalogues, both for individual artists and for group exhibitions. Her personal books include monographs on China’s leading artists, including Liu Xiaodong, Jia Aili, Shi Jinsong and Ma Ke. She is the author of the historical compendium Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, which examines the careers of nine founding fathers of China’s new art movement which began in 1985.
In her capacity as curator, Smith regularly produces exhibitions in China and abroad. She currently serves as director of OCAT Xi’an, the third of the Shenzhen-based museum group OCAT’s contemporary art museums.
OR NEW CHINA, NEW ART
FORWORD
By Philip Tinari, Director,
Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA)
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: A BUNCH OF AMATEURS
PART 2: INCIDENTS AND COLLECTIVE EFFORTS
PART 3: IN AND OUT OF TIME AND PLACE
PART 4: STRUCTURED OBJECTS AND SPATIAL CONSTRUCTS
PART 5: FANTASY AS REALITY IN MOTION
LIST OF EXHIBITIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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