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Rory Mencin
Oct 1
Artist Portrait | Qiao Xiangwei
Chinese Contemporary Artist Qiao Xiangwei Visual artist Qiao Xiang Wei serves up symbolism the same way a rapper lays down a clever...
Rory Mencin
Oct 1, 2021
Artist Portrait | Chae Tongyull
As trade routes began to link distant civilizations along the silk road, their paths of commerce were paved in peril. Only caravans of...
Rory Mencin
Oct 18, 2020
Exhibition in Focus | Vol.7 Unknown in Zhi Museum
Call it a cultural side effect of the Covid-19 era, but lately every art exhibition I’ve seen seems shallow and out of touch with our...
Rory Mencin
Jul 16, 2020
Exhibition in Focus | Vol.6 Oblivion in LUXELAKE A4 Museum
The moon is a celestial body that revolves around the earth, reflects the sun’s light, and controls the movements of our tides. This is a...
Rory Mencin
Mar 19, 2020
Artist Portrait | Sun Keqing
If you had only seven-seconds of memory like a fish, would it be a blessing, or a curse? According to a recent study by Microsoft, the...
Rory Mencin
Nov 21, 2019
Live Art in Chengdu up on festival - 2019
Rituals of Fire As the sun sets on a cool, October night in Chengdu, a man ceremoniously strips the clothes off his back and begins to...
Rory Mencin
Oct 3, 2019
Exhibition in Focus | Vol.5 La Chine de Marc Riboud in Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum
French Photographer Marc Riboud visited China 22 times over the course of 5 decades. Yet, he did not seem interested in composing a...
Rory Mencin
Sep 1, 2019
Artist Portrait | Fansack
A priest, a scientist, and a philosopher walk into a bar…. If this sounds like the set up for a joke, that's because the human brain...
Rory Mencin
Jun 13, 2019
Exhibition in Focus | Vol.4 Universality
Like a diligent student of history, by tracing the lines of Chinese calligraphy we can follow the trends of the past. From the ancient...
Rory Mencin
Mar 23, 2019
Artist Portrait | Brendan C. Forde
This sounds like the cliché headline to a sappy special about internal struggle, the meaning of life, and finding your own path in the...
Rory Mencin
Jan 3, 2019
Exhibition in Focus | Vol.3 Roman Signer
“What is true for chemistry—from the combination of basic elements something completely new emerges—is also true for Signer’s artworks....
Rory Mencin
Dec 1, 2018
Exhibition in Focus | Vol.2 Fantasy in Zhi Art Museum
Last month, IPF organized our first ever group adventure to the Zhi Art Museum. We woke up early, shared cars, and had a great time...
Rory Mencin
Oct 31, 2018
Artist Portrait | Rafal Michalak
transgress noun 1) To violate a command or law: SIN 2)To go beyond a boundary or limit When Polish photographer Rafal Michalak was a...
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