27 Nov 2014

Chinese Artist Huang Rui will present a performance art work entitled Black and White Cats 49,Then? Inspired by the slogan by Deng Xiaoping, “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.” Huang Rui will create a live action painting that is 15 meters long and 4 meters tall. The painting is divided into 50 sections. The painting represents the colors black and white to signify the Yin and Yang. Divided into sections of 7, Huang Rui will paint the bodies of 7 women and create rubbings onto the canvas with their bodies. They will first be painted white and then black, eventually the rubbings will become grey. The numbers have significance: 7 times 7 is 49. China was established in 1949. 49 further is an important number in Buddhism as it is said that when one dies it takes 49 days for rebirth. The Buddha, Siddhāttha contemplated for 49 days before reaching enlightenment. Hong Kong is now in the 17th year since the Handover from the British. Deng Xiaoping created the slogan: “One Country Two Systems, 50 years Unchanged.” While a third of the 50 years has been completed the One Country Two Systems idea has already been challenged. Huang Rui’s performance asks what comes after 49?

27 Nov 2014

Join us for a special Mural painting artworkshop with artist Konstantin Bessmertny.

Open to for families of all ages.

Sunday 30 November, 12 - 5pm

20 Nov 2014

Join us for a lunchtime artist's talk on Wednesday 26 November , 12pm.
Russan-born and Macau-based artist konstantin Bessmertny will discuss his new body presented in his new solo exhibition Stir-Fry.

01 Nov 2014

The Propeller Group at The Creative Time Summit, Sweden - Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen will be traveling from Ho Chi Minh City to Stockholm to represent The Propeller Group and deliver a presentation of their ongoing project Viet-Nam The World Tour' in the summit's section 'Nationalisms'. Other keyspeakers presenting on the same topic will be: Jonas Dahlberg, Thomas Rafa ans Jonas Staal.

23 Oct 2014

The Propeller Group and Christopher Myers, based between New York City, Los Angeles and Saigon, have encapsulated the elusive butterfly effect — the theory of "nonlocality” whereby two distinct phenomena affect one another across a vast expanse of space and time. The film, The Living Need Light, And The Dead Need Music, a phrase taken from a Vietnamese proverb, documents the funeral tradition of Saigon from the vantage of New Orleans: two cities, two cultures, mirroring each other from worlds apart.

20 Sep 2014

Safety Zone tells the story of the 1937 ‘Rape of Nanjing’. A group of 21 foreigners saved the lives of some 300,000 Chinese citizens by sheltering them in the city’s internal ‘Safety Zone’.

John Young’s exhibition pays tribute to this little-known, but great humanitarian event.

19 Sep 2014

Lindy Lee’s work came to prominence in the 1980s and has evolved in tandem with key developments in Australian art, including the turn towards Asia. The first major survey of this artist’s practice, the exhibition explores Lee’s acclaimed early photocopy work, and the work that evolved following her embrace of Buddhism and her Chinese heritage. Also included are recent works in which she employs pyrographic techniques to evoke the infinity of the universe, and compositions comprising flung bronze. Works have been sourced from a range of public and private collections.

15 Sep 2014

THE ROVING EYE
Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia
Curated by Iola Lenzi
17 September 2014–4 January 2015

From 17 September on, ARTER will host a large curated exhibition of Southeast Asian contemporary art for the first time in Turkey. Entitled “The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia” and curated by researcher and critic Iola Lenzi, the exhibition will present 40 works by 36 of Southeast Asia’s most innovative contemporary artists from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
As well as introducing forms, materials, conceptual methodologies, and aesthetic codes commonly featured in the artistic production of the region, the exhibition will offer critical insights into today’s regional culture and the many tensions cleaving the societies of Southeast Asia. In particular, The Roving Eye argues multiple points of view on self and society as a central canon of Southeast Asian contemporary art.
The Roving Eye will feature installations, videos, sound pieces, photography and performances, a number of which were especially commissioned for the exhibition. The exhibition will place particular emphasis on works that embrace experience, interactivity and participation.

29 Aug 2014

Dinh Q. Lê and The Propeller Group will be presenting their works at SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers - 2 September–23 November  2014 - Artistic Director: Park Chan-kyong

28 Aug 2014

The 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House explores the process of burning and transformation, a cycle of obliteration and renewal witnessed throughout history. Evident in aesthetics, historical events, and an increasingly rapid course of redundancy and renewal in commercial culture, the Biennale reflects on this process of, often violent, events of destruction or self-destruction―burning the home one occupies―followed by the promise of the new and the hope for change.
 
The exhibition is curated by Jessica Morgan, Artistic Director of the Gwangju Biennale and The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. FatosUstek and Emiliano Valdes are Associate Curators for the Biennale, EnnaBae is Associate Curator for Performance and Teresa Kittler is Assistant Curator.
For more information, please visit: http://www.gwangjubiennale.org/eng

02 Jul 2014

Come and join us for cocktails and music in Chai Wan for a last chance to see the “How” by Zhao Zhao at Platform China and “Spring & Autumn” by Shao Yinong & Muchen at 10 Chancery Lane Projects.

08 Jun 2014

The exhibition Right is Wrong / Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection introduces art from four decades and presents the rapid emergence of contemporary art in China. Starting in the 1970s, we follow the development of contemporary art beginning with groups of artists such as the No Name Group and the Stars Group, via the events on Tiananmen Square in 1989, up to the incredibly vibrant art scene of today. Comprising almost 80 works of various formats and mediums: painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and performance, Right is Wrong presents a selection of seminal pieces by key figures in contemporary Chinese art history. The works are part of one of the world's foremost collections of Chinese contemporary art; the M+ Sigg Collection from M+, the museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, presently under construction and due to open in 2017.

11 Apr 2014

Dinh Q. Lê is planning an ambitious, architectural installation of black and white photographic ephemera taken from the Vietnam War era, pre-1975. He has collected these photographs over the years that are often similar to the images that might fill a family’s photo album: portraits, scenic vistas, snapshots from events, etc. They are stitched together in monumental grids and paired with text handwritten on the back of the photographs. Specific recollections of the Vietnam War era have been chosen by Dinh Q. Lê from oral history interviews, including those conducted by Rice University’s Chao Center for Asian Studies with Houston’s Vietnamese community, the second largest outside of California. The large photo assemblages will be hung from the ceiling to create ethereal, cube-like structures inspired by the rectangular mosquito nets used in Vietnam. Dinh Q. Lê characterizes the gesture as a “sleeping, dreaming memory of Vietnam.”

10 Mar 2014

ART WALK 2014

An evening of art, food and drinks organised with Hong kong art galleries and benefiting The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO).

Wednesday 12 March, 4.30pm - 11.30pm

05 Mar 2014

ATUL DODIYA AT THE PICASSO MUSEUM, BARCELONA

This is the first exhibition dedicated to tracing the impact of Picasso on international contemporary art. Curated by the expert Michael FitzGerald, the show will explore the dialogue inspired by the work of Picasso in today's artists.

Among the artists who will be represented in the exhibition are: Chéri Samba of the Democratic Republic of Congo, M. F. Husain and Atul Dodiya of India, Folkert de Jong and Rineke Dijkstra of the Netherlands, Guillermo Kuitca from Argentina, Vik Muniz of Brazil, and Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold and Fred Wilson of the USA.

19 Feb 2014

Disrupted Choreographies weaves eight contemporary voices from Vietnam who propose alternate narratives between colonial histories, collective behavior, systems of class and the crumbling of ideological thought.

This exhibition challenges the relationship between Vietnam and the ‘global’ stage, illustrating an artistic community critical of the historical consciousness that often stands in for its name (ie. the guilt of war; the tourist getaway; the nostalgic colonial).

The artists in this exhibition juxtapose historical event and social phenomena; relevant to the diasporic contexts they conceptually and physically traverse. Their dance in the residual space of failing ideologies, post-industrialized communities, heterotopias and the ramification of representation are careful artistic choreographies that they understand are in cyclical movement, ie. in repeat.

Participating artists: Lena Bui; Tiffany Chung; Dinh Q Lê; Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba; Nguyen Huy An; Nguyen Thai Tuan; Nguyen Trinh Thi and ‘The Propeller Group’

29 Jan 2014

10 Chancery Lane Gallery will be showing at ARMORY SHOW 2014 in New York. [6 - 9 March 2014]

Huang Rui and Wang Keping are two of the founders of the first non-conformist artist’s group “THE STARS” (XING XING) which was formed in 1979 during the post-cultural revolution “Beijing Spring.” The Chinese avant - garde art group the “Stars,” which included artists Wang Keping, Ai Weiwei, Ma Desheng and Li Shuang was active in from 1979 to 1983. This ground-breaking group of amateur artists was the first publicly active art collective to protest government censorship after the Cultural Revolution.

Huang Rui will be presenting works from the early 80s and also recent works mixing color, structure and language. Wang Keping will be showing wood sculptures.

China focus section, Pier 94 - Booth 630

For more information, please visit: http://www.thearmoryshow.com/

To request information about the works we will presenting, please contact Geraldine Cosnuau: geraldine@10chancerylanegallery.com

The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to American: The exhibition presents a collection of visual narratives about the Chinese and Mexican immigrant experiences. Through the works of five contemporary artists, we explore the recurring issues of immigration, border relations and labor practices that have persisted throughout U.S. history and remain timely today. The selection of works demonstrates a range of different styles and references, spanning different historic periods, geographic locations, cultural influences and gender perspectives, bound together by the common threads of memory, history, identity and humanity. Artists featured include Zhi Lin, Hung Liu, Andrea Bowers, Tony de Los Reyes and Margarita Cabrera.