Liu Xiaodong @ Lisson

When I arrived at the Lisson Gallery to see the Liu Xiaodong exhibition I thought that I had made a mistake. The subjects of the pictures were Londoners in pubs and women in cosmopolitan arab coffee shops. Shamefully, as I didn’t know anything about the artist before my visit, I was expecting a stereotypical representation […]

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Cinderella Venus goes to Venice!

This past year has been a difficult one for me and unfortunately it has meant that my blog has not received as much love and attention as it deserves and I have been unable to visit as many exhibitions as I would have liked. However, by the end of Summer things started to improve and […]

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Yang Yongliang @ Galerie Paris Beijing

One would not expect to see a Chinese artist presenting in Paris, yet the work of Yang Yongliang is sitting beautifully in the city’s Galerie Paris Beijing. On display are stunning black and white images of what appears to be cities in chinese bowls. These works are inspired by Song Dynasty paintings and look to […]

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