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Photos: Johnson Tsang.

The Hong Kong based artist Tsang Cheung Shing a.k.a. Johnson Tsang has made a name for himself by apparently capturing the form of a splash of liquid from which other forms emerge. In this series titled, Splash of Wonder, faces appear to emerge from stainless steel liquid. Read more

Images: Via Bruce Silverstein Gallery New York.

Whilst the cognoscenti has always valued Chinese art, the same cannot be said for all aspects of the Western art establishment. But with the increasing prominence and power of the Chinese economy, and a more liberal political attitude to Chinese intellectual life, the country’s art is once again beginning to assert itself. As a result the salons of Europe and America have, in recent times, become noticeably less snobbish about things Chinese.

In this context the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York is showing an interesting collection of landscape works by the artist Yao Lu. Look closely and you will see these apparently beautiful landscapes, executed in a familiar Chinese style, are in fact collages of landfill sites! Read more

In China, despite the exploding use of motor cars, the bicycle remains the most popular means of transport! It is also one of the first ways children find they can travel around freely, so in this sense experience a kind of freedom of locomotion. Fertile ground then for the dissident artist Ai Weiwei to find expression in his art. Read more