Guan Wei
It may not seem obvious that paintings – produced by the artist’s hand, and using his instantly-recognisable personal vocabulary of symbols and characters, and displayed at one of our most prominent commercial galleries – would be a medium particularly suited for working through the state of digital image production and circulation today. Guan Wei’s Interface proves, then, […]
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Covid U-Turns
In 2012 in Bali and Java, Australian–Indonesian artist Jumaadi began collecting small one hundred–year–old vernacular timber houses. Some were decorated with ornate carvings; others were lightly ornamented with painted panels that had gradually faded in the damp Indonesian climate. His mission was to rescue the decaying houses and move them to his compound in Surabaya […]
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Tagged Ah Xian, Covid-19, Danelle Bergstrom, Desmond Lazaro, Guan Wei, JUMAADI, Khadim Ali, Michael Young, Nike Savvas
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Guan Wei
Chinese-Australian artist Guan Wei stood deferentially in front of his self-portrait ‘Plastic Surgery’ (2015)…
‘The Beautiful Sky’ entwines China and France
Creating a lasting object of friendship between France and China, Chinese Australian artist Guan Wei created ‘The Beautiful Sky’ in November this year.
