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In a very dark room, an overhead projector presents a birds-eye view of twelve cardboard boxes piled together like eggs in a nest, accompanied by the sound of children giggling, crying, and talking. A hand suddenly reaches out from one of the boxes and then the cover of another one opens.

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At Art Taipei 2008, ChinaSqure has brought the prominent artists’works from Chinese contemporary art scene in their first debute, such asYe Yongqing, Mao Yan, and Su Xinping.

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Art Taipei, whose former name is Taipei Art Fair International, is the most long-standing art fair in Asia. Since 1992, on the demanding from both galleries and collectors, Art Taipei has been organized by Art Galleries Association for 14 years. In Art Taipei 2008, there are more than 110 galleries, including 48 internatioal galleries from all over the world.

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Shen Jingdong, who served for sixteen years in the Chinese military, merges Pop Art with Marxist propaganda (is there a difference?). Past exhibitions of his have, unsurprisingly, been banned in China, but his shiny, happy people — Mao's smiley army are playful yet brittle — are still collected the world over. See his latest exhibit at ChinaSquare through Saturday.

-Emma Pearse

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The art of Nanjing-born Shen Jingdong may just be the pinnacle of communist chic -- and one of the trendier pop-political crossovers since the misappropriation of the keffiyeh.

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据纽约style file报道，尽管天气闷热，7月28号，艺术爱好者们因为SCOPE艺术博览会而聚集在汉普敦。为了为期四天的博览会，East Hampton Studios变成了来自15个国家40多家画廊艺术展示的场地。来自英国南安普敦的Keszler Gallery呈现的展品是博览会的亮点

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Muggy weather notwithstanding, art lovers flocked to the Hamptons by the Jitney-loads this weekend to attend the SCOPE Art Fair. For four art-filled days, East Hampton Studios was transformed into a spacious arrangement of stalls featuring more than 40 galleries from 15 countries.

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China Square, who are first-timers at Scope, and “very excited to be here,” according to director Carrie Clyne, have a lively and eye-catching display, with Shen Jingdong’s brightly colored paintings of smiling toy-like communists, and — the booth’s stand-out piece, in my opinion — Zhong Biao’s diptych Grandma’s Sky (2007), which is being offered for $250,000

Profiles

Alex Cao: Working on Dream

lex Cao, the founder of China Square Gallery in New York, was a well-known New York fashion photographer before turning his eye to Chinese contemporary Art. Now, he is running a major art gallery in the heart of New Yorks’ thriving arts district in Chelsea,

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‘REVOLUTION’ Not long ago hardly any galleries in Chelsea were showing Asian contemporary art. Now there are dozens, including those specializing in Asian artists. Chinese art dominates, partly because the current market is boiling and partly because, simply, some of the best art being made today is from China.

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It’s always raining in post-revolution China — well, it is if you go by Chinese painter Duan Jianghua’s semi-postapocalyptic landscapes. The above City No. 1 and other beautifully dreary works are up at Chelsea’s ChinaSquare gallery through February 9. —Rachel Wolff

A Discussion between Li Xianting and Ye Yongqing

Ye Yongqing: I don't like to organize documents. My past documents and objects are just piled up in boxes in my Chongqing and Kunming homes.

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by Victoria Lu 陸蓉之



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It’s Asian Work, but Abandon the Stereotypes Before Entering the Booths

Two young, bald Asian women in Western-style clothes are horsing around. One points her finger at the head of the other, who scrunches up her face as if bracing for a bullet.

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Chen Jiagang’s monumental pictures tell a
story of the industrial and human activities
that took place in the Third Front, the remote
areas of Southwestern China, and of the grit
and human toil that once powered China’s
military and economic engines.

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Bridge

A huge painting by Zhong Biao - at nealy 10 by 13 feet, it is Zhong's largest single-canvas work to date - dominated ChinaSquare's booth ( New York and Beijing) . Titled The Sky of Us-8, it depicts an oversize man sleeping on a couch, his bare feet pushed into the foreground; to his left, a group of tourists walks past a framed black-and-white painting of a cloudy sky.

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Xiang Jing and Guangci

A married couple, Xiang Jing and Guangci share an interest in making sculpture; however, their styles are completely different.

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China's Fine-Art Boom
Discovering Why The Country's Fine-Art Photography Market Is So Hot.

By Kristina Feliciano
June 02, 2007

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