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Imaginary landscapes Shimla. Courtesy the artist and Gujral Foundation
Solo show of Remen Chopra W. Van Der Vaart
Presented and supported by Gujral Foundation
Remen Chopra W. Van Der Vaart is a multi-disciplinary artist. She creates site-specific works using with varied media such as photography, drawing, sculpture, textiles and sound, to reflect upon personal and familial histories of migration. Her work is a unique assemblage of intimate moments, poetry and personal objects that were passed on matrilineally, from one generation to the other. She would like to explore the cartography of memory and how non-linear narratives are fabricated out of scattered fragments. The artist recalls family stories of Tehran, Rawalpindi and Shimla, as narrated to her by her grandmother. The artist would like to map the history of these spaces and the long journey to locate the memories evoked by found objects and by embroidery. Through new bylanes using multi-layered artworks that will explore the idea of the feminine as both earth and home.
ZHANG Yunyao, Portrait, 2020, graphite and pastel on felt, 70 x 62 x 1. Courtesy the artist
Solo show of ZHANG Yunyao, Drawing Room
Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff
Chinese artist Zhang Yunyao will present a special project Drawing Room at this year’s Asia Now. Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, this project is a key chapter of the artist’s first European solo exhibition opening during the same time at a brand new gallery in Paris, Galerie Marguo. Drawing Room, a phrase that means both a historical living room and a room of drawings, features a series of brightly coloured felt paintings and paper drawings created during confinement in Paris this year. With references to classical photography and art history, this body of work is rich with symbolism as the artist’s attempt to blur sense of time and create a utopian atmosphere in the time of crisis.
The duo show "Format Exchange" by the artist TIAN, Dexi x ALJOSCHA,
curated by Martina Köppel-Yang and Julia Ritterskamp
Initiated by the collector Barbara Hunz, Martina Köppel-Yang and Julia Ritterskamp, "Format Exchange" is an exchange project for young French, Asian and world artists.
Martina Köppel-Yang has a profound knowledge of Chinese contemporary art and speaks Chinese fluently.
Julia Ritterskamp, has many years of international experience in the field of art consulting and art trade, is a curator.
„The non-profit project aims to promote emerging artists by supporting their career and inviting them to exhibitions and residences in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Paris. The "Start-up" project presented at ASIA NOW features two artists: ALJOSCHA, working in Düsseldorf and TIAN, Dexi, working in Paris.
Toshimasa Kikuchi, Geometrical Forms, 2020, Japanese cypress wood, urushi lacquer, gold and platinum leaves. Courtesy Galerie Mingei
Masterpieces of Japanese Contemporary Bamboo Art
Presented by Galerie Mingei
Gallery Mingei-Japanese Arts will present nine Japanese artists. The gallery has been defending the ancient art of Japanese bamboo basketry for ten years. Breaking with the utilitarian function of these baskets intended for Buddhist ceremonies, the contemporary artists transform the fibre of the plant into sublime sculptures that have in the past been presented as part of the exhibition Fendre l’air. Art du bambou au Japon at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in 2018. In addition to the project within the fair, eleven works selected by a panel of experts will be displayed at the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, as part of the Mingei Bamboo Prize.
Château du Marais, Image courtesy lechateaudumarais.fr
‘ART AND RURALITY: A conversation between architect Kulapat Yantrasast and artist Grant Levy-Lucerno’
Sunday 18 October at 3pm
While working on the Agri-Cultural project led by Victoire de Pourtalès and Benjamin Eymère for the revitalisation of the farm of the Château du Marais, the artists will discuss their creative process and evoke their views on territory, heritage and neo-rurality. This conversation will be an opportunity to discuss links between art and agriculture. Born in Bangkok, Yantrasast often uses bamboo in his architectural language.
K.O.H.D. 1+2, 2014-2016, 60'02", color, sound, 2-channel video installation. Courtesy Huang Xiaopeng and Video Bureau
K.O.H.D. 1+2 by Huang Xiaopeng
Presented by Video Bureau
“This is a surreal collage “essay film” of alienation in the dream-world which I edited over 3 years. By following Duchamp's "ready-made" concept, most of my materials are adopted from everyday life around me from the past 10 years: texts (especially books, lyrics, advertisements, news and conversations that influence the Chinese perception and internalization of modernity and political ideals) and images (shot with a DVcam whenever and wherever, copied from DVDs, downloaded from the internet or taken from TV…).
With soundtracks of Chinese and Western love songs that completely lose their original meanings in a new context, the translation turns them into political statements, becoming like poetry in our absurd time.” – Huang Xiaopeng
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
Château du Marais - ‘ART AND RURALITY’
Format Exchange