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...His latest project is the inaugural exhibition at Chen Treasure....
...“Un village sans frontières”, Chen Zhen’s miniature houses built from candles, are flickering hopes for the future — part of an imaginary city Chen designed in a project with Brazilian street children, who...
...Among the artists he has collected are Richard Lin, Hong Kong’s Lee Kit, Haegue Yang from Korea and Cai Guo-Qiang, Xu Bing, Chen Zhen and Gu Wenda from China — “but everything is so expensive now,” he says...
...“The government has stepped up environmental management, which has reduced production, and there is more demand for our teas,” said Chen Zhen, a dealer who sells Wuyi tea priced at almost Rmb100,000 per...
...It is being billed as the great unseen exhibition, showcasing a generation of artists — including Geng Jianyi, Yang Fudong, Liu Wei, Hu Jieming, Xu Zhen, Liang Yue, Chen Xiaoyun, Yang Zhenzhong and Xiang...
...Chen Zhen’s “Precipitous Parturition”, a dragon formed of bicycle parts, hangs at the top of the Guggenheim atrium, as if preparing to swoop down on visitors....
...Fiaschi, when I finally speak to him, is just days away from opening a show devoted to the thoughtful Chinese artist Chen Zhen, who died in 2000....
...“The anti-corruption campaign has gathered unstoppable momentum,” Tuo Zhen, a party congress spokesman, said on the eve of its opening....
...A wide range of pieces is on show in rotating exhibitions, from Chen Tianzhuo’s hip-hop videos of muscular dancing twin dwarfs to a black cathedral created from bondage leatherwear and sex toys by Xu Zhen...
...Born in Shanghai in 1955, Chen Zhen grew up during the Cultural Revolution and studied ivory carving and stage design....
...Her place is off the beaten track for tourists – 2km past the end of the westernmost subway stop – but Zhang Zhen’s century-old flat is smack in the middle of Shanghai’s tourist district....
...Works by Bill Viola, Julie Mehretu, Mona Hatoum, Javier Tellez, Chen Zhen and others are set against the vaulted ceilings and dark alcoves of the former prison where Marie-Antoinette was incarcerated during...
...There is an eight-metre wide 1991 installation by Chen Zhen....
...Yao Chen, an actress with the largest following on Sina Weibo, cited Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Ultimately, though, this is outweighed by the fear of instability....
...The real eye-opener though is an installation by Chen Zhen, a large-scale table incorporating a United Nations human rights declaration (“Round Table”, 1995)....
...A poignant work is Chen Zhen’s “Bibliothèque” (1992), a glass-fronted cabinet containing the ashes of Chinese newspapers. Works by the French artist Bernard Aubertin use spent matches....
...Additional reporting by Gwen Chen in Beijing....
...“Where are Zhen Yan and Xiao Gang, the editorial writers of Beijing Daily who wrote ‘Here we can’t find ‘press freedom’, we can’t find ‘objectivity and fairness’’?...
...The sculpture is one of 10 contemporary artworks on Sebasti’s property – by, among others, Anish Kapoor, Chinese artist Chen Zhen, the Italian arte povera hero Michelangelo Pistoletto, and the French abstract...
...The older woman, whose similar machinations once led to great power, is coming to terms with her demons (personified by Peking Opera singer Zhen Jianhua)....
...It concerns Chen Zhen, a bookish Beijing youth sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution....
...Brett Simon and Chen Qing were expressive as an Apollonian/Dionysian pair in a male pas de deux....
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