at the entrance of the exhibition "Guess what? Hardcore Contemporary Art’s Truly a World Treasure: Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection". Marc Quinn "Mith (sphinx)", 2006

Famous Taiwan company Yageo Corporation was founded by Mr.Pierre Tie Min Chen. He is known as one of the most powerful art collectors in the world. Now his selected works are displayed at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

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The Prisoner of Book No.5 2014 oil on paper

Pace Gallery is now launching in Hong Kong with a new office, bringing one of the most famous Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang’s latest oil on paper works to constitute its inaugural show in May.

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Sleeper 2013 Ⅰ　2013　Oil on Panel

The solo exhibition “Sleepers” of Japanese Artist, Atsushi Suwa, will be held at Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery in Hong Kong. Although Atsushi Suwa’s works have been exhibited in group shows and at ART Hong Kong - the predecessor of ART BASEL in Hong Kong, this is the first time over 20 of his works have been exhibited together in Hong Kong.　And also we can view his new works at the exhibition “Currents Japanese contemporary art” at James Christie Room in Hong Kong from May 9th to 28th (from the 20th by appointment only).

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Katsura Funakoshi, 'the Sphinx Sees Wars', 2005

TABLOID GALLERY is going to hold Katsura Funakoshi Exhibiton from June 25, 2013. The exhibition will mainly feature three-dimentional works of the 1990's to 2000's along with drawings on which wooden sculptures are based and printings. 

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Taiwan Pavilion holds an exhibiton 'This is not a Taiwan Pavilion' presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Taiwan attended la Biennale di Venezia since 1995 and this is their 10th participation. Esther Lu, a curator invited 3 units of artists and made 3 projects: Bernd Behr's 'Chronotopia', Chia-Wei Hsu's 'Marshal Tie Jia', and Kateřina Šedá + BATEŽO MIKILU, a group of six high school students from Zastávka, a town in the Czech Republic's 'This is not a Czech Pavilion'.  The title of the exhibition 'This is not a Taiwan Pavilion' uses a negative sentence and develops images of Taiwan which the audience have.

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An collateral event of la Biennale di Venezia, 'Personal Structures' has started from June 1, 2013. Personal Structures is an international art project initiated in 2002 by the Dutch artist Rene Rietmeyer. Asian artists who participate the exhibition are Yoshitaka Amano, Toshikatsu Endo, Hirofumi Isoya and Yoko Ono from Japan, Chul Hyun Ahn and Suh Jeong Min from South Korea, Chen Ping, Qin Chong, Xing Xin and  Zhang Yu from China.

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Full-Body Scan: Next!, Computer rendering, 2013. Courtesy Cai Studio 

The collaboration between independent curator James Putnam and traditional hand-blown glass artisans at Berengo Studio in Venice, “Glasstress,” presents its 3rd edition at the 55th Venice Biennale this year, titled White Light / White Heat. The exhibition opens on 31 May at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti on the Grand Canal next to Ponte dell’Accademia, and will be on view until 24 November. For the exhibition, Putnam and Adriano Berengo, President of Berengo Studio, invited contemporary artists to work with Murano artisans to create works of art from glass. Among the sixty-six artists featured, Cai Guo-Qiang will stage Full-Body Scan: Next!, his first attempt to employ glass as a medium in his work.

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Missed Autumn Rendez-Vous, 2013
acrylic on canvas
194 cm x 161.9 cm
© Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Pace Gallery

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