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Adrian Wong, Dream Cosmography, 2015, Courtesy the artist and OCAT Shenzhen

ART-PRESENTATION: Summer Triangle

The astronomical asterism the Summer Triangle, with its defining vertices at Altair, Deneb, and Vega An, is an essential navigation coordinate in the Northern hemisphere’s Summers. Showing artworks referencing Hong Kong’s cityscape, the exhibition “Summer Triangle” at OCAT Shenzhen attempts to examine how popular media construct the image of a …

Dasha Shishkin, Excitement - Trout in the Public’s Trousers (Detail), 2016, Galerie Anne Barrault Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Nouveau!

A slightly ironic title, hinting at the ever strong demand for what is new, the contemporary greed for necessary and incessant novelty, …

Nadim Abbas, Apocalypse Postponed, 2014, site specific installation, Photo: Roberto Chamorro

ART-PRESENTATION: Nadim Abbas-New Directions

Nadim Abbas draws his inspiration from literature, psychology and science. The artist produces heavily researched sculptural works, photography and large installations. Finding …

A Fair Land-And/or a courgette-based economy

ART-PRESENTATION:A Fair Land

Echoing the role artists and the European Arts and Crafts movement played in creating and articulating a new vision for Ireland pre-1916, …

Kawamoto Masukichi (1831–1907), Ornamental panel “Mount Fuji” Japan, Seto, Meiji period (1868–1912), ca. 1872, © MAK

ART-PRESENTATION: Tadashi Kawamata

Tadashi Kawamata is an artist who transforms our environment, he works in the midst of demolition and construction. These projects have taken …

Nona Faustine, Even The Comfort Of A Stone Would Be A Gain, 2013, Knockdown Center Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: MAMI

The Knockdown Center, is housed in a former glass factory in Maspeth, Queens. Owned by a private individual who lives onsite in …

Ethan Hayes Chute, Bottles and Jars from Contemporary Spice Rack, 2012, Courtesy the artist

ART-PRESENTATION: Ethan Hayes-Chute

In his sculptures, drawings, text pieces, and performative workshops, Ethan Hayes-Chute explores ideas of self-sufficiency and self-preservation, making reference to outsider architecture, …