A recurring look at what's happening at Shanghai's art galleries:
1. Mu Lei: Wonderment
The Beijing-based artist creates striking portraitures that mix contemporary and conventional approaches.
// Until Oct 18. Art+ Shanghai.
2. Shanghai Sacred
Award-winning British photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley examines dislocation and relocation in Shanghai as part of an ongoing research project at Fudan University. The show documents “how sacredness continues to be engineered in today’s Shanghai.”
// Until Oct 18. Ray Art Center, Room 182, Block 5A, 128 Huayuan Lu, by Jingxiang Lu 花园路128号运动LOFT创意基地五街区A座182室, 近景翔路
3. Erwin Olaf
The Dutch artist first started making waves in contemporary photography in the early 1990s with his unnerving images. This retrospective features many of his award-winning works.
// Until Oct 25. Magda-Danysz Gallery.
4. Sun Yu: Being Alone
FQ Projects continues their partnership with Sun Yu, who they have taken across Europe and Asian art fairs. The Beijing-based oil painter goes introspective with Being Alone, producing emotional works with his unique style of brush strokes.
// Until Nov 5. FQ Projects.
5. The World of Hwang Young-sung
Born in the early 1940s in Korea, Hwang Young-Sun has endured Japanese occupation, participated in the doomed 1980 student protests that ended with military dictator Chun Doo-Hwon massacring students and suffered through a time when South Korea was among the poorest nations on the planet. Now he’s the Director of the Gwangju Museum of Art and this exhibition pays tribute to a career of colorful abstract works (see cover image).
// Until Nov 7. Shanghai Himalayas Art Center.
6. This is Utopia
This group exhibition mixes a variety of mediums to explore the concept of utopia. Singaporean Chen Shi Tong (see above) crafts mixed-media works portraying millions of migrants seeking a better life, Cao Yuanqi finds inspiration in a Tang Dynasty Buddha for a modern statement, while rising young artists like Indonesian Albert Yonathan, who participated at the 2013 Venice Biennale, contribute works.
// Until Nov 30. LWH Gallery.
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