{"id":19753,"date":"2012-09-13T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=19753"},"modified":"2024-01-06T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T11:27:35","slug":"sh-temporary-pondering-the-future-of-a-once-crucial-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/sh-temporary-pondering-the-future-of-a-once-crucial-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"SH-Temporary: Pondering the Future of a Once Crucial Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 6th Annual SH Contemporary <\/a><\/strong>was nervously watched by the local art community amid rumors that the fair\u2019s contract with the local government was coming to an end. The event was marred by censorship of a number of non-political works, lackluster sales and average offerings in the booths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The censors came too, requesting, for example, that Steven Harris<\/strong>, the director of the Shanghai gallery M97<\/strong>, remove \u201cNOW_ing\u201d (2011) by Chi Peng (pictured below). Perhaps an image of a Monkey storming the Forbidden City amid billowing smoke isn\u2019t quite \u201cthis season\u201d with the new leadership shuffle on the horizon. Another work, a painting by Ye Hongxing<\/strong>, which depicted an abstracted image of Chairman Mao at Art+Shanghai<\/strong>, was also censored, and because of these works the fair had to be tight-fisted with handing out copies of the catalog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, special projects such as \u201cNow Ink\u201d brought some worthwhile works including Shen Fan\u2019s impressive Shanghai Stock Exchange piece (\u201cLandscape 9210,\u201d 2012), an arresting work by Alexandre Joly (\u201cAbsolute Sine,\u201d where sound waves hold ephemeral patterns on a basin of ink) and strangely for an \u201cink\u201d project ceramic vessels by Moataz Nasr. \u201cHot Spots\u201d this year included artists from India \u2014 as put by the fair director Massimo Torrigiani, \u201cto show Asian collectors that they need to look in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jiang Ji\u2019an, \u201cTwo Rooms,\u201d installation, variable size, 2012 (Shanghai Gallery of Art).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As per last year, the main exhibition hall was given over to booths rather than special projects, which were relegated to the more theatrical stairwell spots in the building\u2019s wings. Gone for the 6th edition was the staging erected at the end of the hall, leaving a clean, focused collection of galleries. Several remarked on improved organization and standards compared with the 5th edition. Numbers, however, were barely up on 2011, with 90 galleries up from 87. Conspicuous by their absence were Beijing\u2019s big players Pace and Long March Space, contributing to a sense that SHContemporary is an increasingly local fair, one plagued by a host of random galleries such as Purple Roof, Moproo Gallery and Suomei Art Gallery \u2014 which have very little presence in the city outside of their annual appearance at the Shanghai exhibition center. It is also one shadowed by local problems where the city government\u2019s support for future editions is a recurrent uncertainty, and there are rumors that the balance may be in the red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not kosher for the fair: Chi Peng, \u201cNOW_ing,\u201d photograph, 2011 (photo courtesy of m97 Gallery).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Amongst the few foreign attendees were Flagstaff Gallery (Auckland), Galerie Italienne (Paris) and Tasneem Gallery (Barcelona) \u2014 all new arrivals \u2014 and a few returnees such as Eigen+Art. One has come not to expect fireworks from the booths at SH Contemporary. This year decorative, wall-ready works seemed to proliferate, with fewer experimental pieces in evidence, though 18Gallery made a nice showing with the work of Jiang Ji\u2019an, a small replica of a room painted all in white paint with the shadows from the furniture, lights, plates and clothing drawn on to the walls and ground in pencil. Surrounded by skull-like sculptures by various artists (MadeIn, Wang Xieda, Liu Chuyun, Liu Weijian, Lin Tianmiao, Qiu Zhijie, Yuan Yuan, Qiu Xiaofei) \u2014 by far one of the most striking presentations \u2014 Xing Zhao of James Cohan Shanghai remarked on the lack of variety amongst this year\u2019s displays; \u201cIt\u2019s all about Art HK these days,\u201d he remarked, attributing a want of dynamism at SHContemporary to the migration of art-fair excitement southwards, an observation difficult to dispute. Still, prices were high and sales lackluster, although there were a number of gallerists who reported improved sales on last year. AIKE-Dellarco\u2019s Robert Ceresia gained three to four new clients and remarked that Mainland Chinese were buying more. ShanghART, too, cited better sales and a smoother installation than in the past. Star Gallery sold both the Jin Nu sculptures it had brought from Beijing. On the middle ground, Steven Harris at M97 commented on SHContemporary as a \u201creliable\u201d fair in practice, accurately reflecting the market with few surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also not kosher: Ye Hongxing, \u201cPhantom No. 11\u2033 (photo courtesy of Art+Shanghai).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One might say there were few surprises at SHContemporary overall. Now is certainly a testing time for this Mainland fair, particularly in the face of Hong Kong\u2019s rampant internationalism, which is proving a powerful, and perhaps underestimated distraction. Its future success will hinge, one suspects, on SHContemporary\u2019s ability to use its \u201clocal\u201d status to more directional and cohesive effect than was in any way evident at this, its sixth edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo credit: Robert Casey Drake).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INK NOW section: Shen Fan, \u201cShanghai Stock Exchange\u201d (ShanghART).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Series of skull-like sculptures by MadeIn, Wang Xieda, Liu Chuyun, Liu Weijian, Lin Tianmiao, Qiu Zhijie, Yuan Yuan, and Qiu Xiaofei. James Cohan Gallery booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chang Chien Chi, \u201cChinatown\u201d (Chen Wen gallery).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cui Jie, \u201cEscalator\u201d (Leo Xu Project).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gabriel Lester, \u201cStacked Depth\u201d (Leo Xu Project).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jiang Pengyi, \u201cEverything Illuminates\u201d (AIKE-Dellarco).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Li Shan, Paintings 1973-1980 (Boers-Li).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moataz Nasr, \u201cLabyrinth Octagon\u201d (Galleria Continua).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wang Ningde (m97 Gallery).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wu Shanzhuan & Inga Thorsdottir, \u201cRed Humour\u201d (Shanghai Gallery of Art).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pearl Lam Fine Art Booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Main Hall of the Shanghai Exhibition Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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