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I did not need to go to Hong Kong art fair or to China mainland because 150 Chinese artists came to Venice. I have to admit I was most impressed with some of the works.
The work of Miao Xiaochun in the Chinese Pavilion was beautiful. He had managed to continue executing what he is best at which is embracing new technology and using it as his palette to create extraordinary art such as “Disillusion”. I was completely mesmerised.
In the same pavilion was the work by Wang Qingsong called “Temporary Ward”. Good work and humorous at the same time.
Ai Wei Wei’s presence was phenomenal. One of the projects he showed in the church of Sant’Antonin called “S.A.C.R.E.D” where he was imprisoned for 81 days in a secret location. The work consists of six metal containers which show his six episodes of life in prison.
He was watched day and night and never left alone.
Chinese work is usually very commercial but there was no hint of how you would acquire any of these works. I loved the painting of Huang Ming-Chang “A Field in the Heart”
Then finally at Glasstress the glass show where Tracey Emin had created a beautiful sculpture of Docket her cat.
There was the master Zhan Wang work called “Scholar’s Rocks (Jia Shan Shi)” made of glass and metal.
