Arts & Misc.
By Sarah Hammer, Sep 29th, 2009 | In Art
We're whittling away the days until the holidays, and you've either booked your travel plans or have resigned yourself to be Shanghai-bound.
Shanghai for the holidays? It could be worse. Why not take the opportunity to visit some galleries with your free time, yes? Here's a few exhibitions on from about... oh say, nowish until... hmm... in October sometime. A lot of these are hold-over from "art week" in Shanghai, but now that people have mingled off elsewhere and the wine is drunk, you can expect some intimate, personal viewing with this stuff.
Also, Shanghaieye has some art suggestions as well.
3 Solo Exhibitions @ m97
M97 continues to offer great reasons to continue heading up to Moganshan, even though the district seems so 2004-ish. They're hosting "3 Solo Exhibitions" from Yang Yi ("Uprooted"), Li Jun ("Impermanent Instant"), and Meng Jin & Fang Er ("Love Hotel"). It opened way back on September 11, and if you haven't had the change to go yet, do so. Check out their webpage here for a panoramic view of the exhibition, replete with zoom-able images of the works.
Young Americans @ James Cohan Gallery
If you're not afraid of Americans, head on down to James Cohan Gallery, featuring three new American artists: Trenton Doyle Hancock, Erick Swenson, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor. Sharing nationality and the impulse to account "narrative" in their works to "a unique and stunning effect" (from the press release). Works on display are sculpture and painting.
Wuwei: Being/Nothing @ Art + Shanghai
This one is the first exhibition from Art + Shanghai at their new location at 22 Fumin Lu. Featuring therein is a group of locally based artists wrestling with Sartre's conceptions of existentialism/essentialism. Head-y material, indeed. Video, paintings, a sound installation, and ample pondering on the ineffable from Shi Zhiying, Wang Hui, Wang Jun, Ben Houge, among others.
Coming and Going @ Art Labor
Art Labor has the complex and chaotic jumbles of Wang Qing, a series of works based on the society of Shanghai. Ample opportunity to stand in front of a painting for hours on end. More at Art Labor's website.
Lomo Yuanmin @ Beaugeste
"Lomo Yuanmin" is acclaimed classicist photographer Lu Yuanmin with a small Lomo camera, readdressing familiar urban Shanghai scenes. Put together over two years, the works imbue their subject matter in a shadowy darkness, creating a strange sense of gravity and darkness in otherwise typical city scenes.
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Lead image from Wang Qing's "Coming and Going" exhibition at Art Labor.
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