Shanghai Art and Science Fiction

I didn’t know I was interested in Shanghai’s contemporary art scene until I started reading the blog Asian Art Nerd.  The blog offers commentary and showcases Shanghai art (often via the author’s own photos) such as Jiang Zhi’s photographs, which recallsome bizarre combination of dreams, nostalgia, and horror films:
Each image makes my skin prickle, as [...]

Alessandro Busci at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Last month I saw a show of Alessandro Busci’s paintings at the Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art. Each of Busci’s paintings featured “train depots, service stations, power plants, and airports”. The enamel palettes used were vivid, usually limited to the brown chemical rainbows over iron panels, thrillingly lurid red paint, near-pure white, and an empty middle [...]