A 43-year-old Beijing artist may have hit on the ultimate in recycling: he fits fragments of porcelain from the Ming, Qing, Yuan and Song dynasties together like parts of a jigsaw puzzle and sews them with silver wire into full-length garments.
For the first time outside China, two of the dresses and a man’s jacket, shirt and [...]
ArtSpace / Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables - Miami
October 3 - 30, 2008
By Ernesto Menéndez Conde
Since the mid-nineteen eighties, when the Cuban painter Humberto Castro first exhibited his art in Havana, the human body has been the leitmotiv that gives continuity to the several stages of his work. Man has been the main topic of [...]
November 2008 - February 2009
ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in downtown Coral Gables continues its 35-year tradition of introducing important artists and art movements to this area with “SAVE AS: Contemporary Chinese Art Born of Ancient Traditions,” the first major exhibition of paintings in this country by Cao Xiaodong and Li Xiaofeng.
Although Xiaodong’s computerized screen-pattern technique and [...]
