jimmy reporting on Huang Yong Ping

Huang Yong Ping is an internationally renowned multi media artist who generally works in the field of instillation. This is an image of Bat Project 1V which I found in Frieze, june/july/August 06. p268 issue 100, is an instillation view at the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. He has used a section of an american spy plane which collided with chinese fighter jet in 2001. The work tackles various issues the most obvious highlights the political struggles and events between the two nations nations. Reading about the work i discovered that huang has created a canopy of stuffed bats inside the plane. Very strange! but i like it more now knowing this. Huang is definetly a must research artist 4 anyone doing sculpture. a bit about frieze..... . its got some good stuff in it, heaps of gallery and exibition ads and openings. Articles are sparse but cover only the top ranked contemporary artists.

artlink - qin ga

Polly: Artlink stirring volume 25 no 3 2005 pg 52-56
Artlink is a great Australian art journal that features articles on recent Australian biennials, as well as a focus on 'new work'. I found this article particularly inspiring about artist Qin Ga who participated in a project called the Long March a journey that took a team around Bejing covering over 3,000 miles.

Qin Ga had the map of China tatooed onto his back and as the team arrived at each new site that too was tatooed leaving permanent markings of the journey.

'His body is both an artwork and a Long March object, combining elements of history and collective and individual memory.'

This is a beautiful story of art and life, personally I think it speaks volumes of how important it is that art has a story to tell. Also Qin Ga says in the interview,

'The reason why I have such an interest in the Long March is that there is no ending point, it is open.'

I don't know if you'd say this was performance art, but I think it's pretty bloody amazing, it couldn't have been an easy march but it's certainly profound. The art itself (the tatoo) is only a small mark of what was experienced but still translates to the viewer in a powerful way the extent to which the artist took to live through his work and that is truly beautiful. I'm a fan. I remember Andrew talking about Qin Ga in Foundation and couldn't forget the story so found it and thought it would be cool to share. Check it out if you get the chance because it's a cool little interview about the journey and it has some photos too :)

nathalie djurburg you should check out.....

Rachel:(I will now be Ray if you don't mind,I hate Rachel)









images from www.artnews.info.
last image from www.e-flux.com

CONTEMPORARY (i really like this journal,it always has lots of good stuff to look at,glad its on the list this time!)
annual 2006,p.44.

The article was about Nathalie Djurnburg who makes really interesting looking animations.
Being rather into this myself i was really inspired but also a wee bit jealous to see someone doing what i could be(sounds like with similar themes to my animations) She was a discouraged art student (from Switzerland i think) who took up boxing and then found animation.voila.
And started making her films on super 8 which I also really like.
I really like the look of the sets,characters and the stories.Which are about dark,sexual or serious sorts of themes but with humour which i think works really,really well with the technique of animation.They compliment each other in that you can tell dark stories but without being so shocking and confronting.
There are stories like two naughty girls who get smacked by a man and then beat him with a baseball bat.( i said dark)
A man who loosed both his arms and legs in a bombing and becomes happy and useless and other strange tales.
I found this article really interesting personally because of my interests and experiences in such similar things,except the boxing.
The bad thing about reading about video works is you can never see them and are left really wanting to!waaaaa.
And I would really,really like to watch these animations.
But alas I can only read about them,and so can you.yay!

Sylvia loves Sam Jinks in Artlink....

images from:http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/sam-jinks-distortions/2005/08/30/1125302559926.html


Sylvia: saw this in the front of artlink vol 26 no.1 looking at up and coming major exhibition openings across australia. "Random Access" was held at McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park along with the Montalto Sculpture Prize in March 2006. Sam Jinks exhibited this work entitled "Hanging Man".

It really striked me when i first saw it, because i thought it was a real person just hanging there in the gallery by their armpits. but when i studied it closer, it is obvious he has a very small, almost childlike body. it gives me creepy weird feelings. it just looks so real. id love to see it in real life.

Antony Gormley, Art monthly Australia

jock: there are lots of little orange clay people from asia.
Art Monthly Australia August 2006 no. 192 pg 17