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...impact of Chinese artists on the Australian art scene is already being felt from within. Sydney gallery director Gene Sherman describes this world as "a very delicate ecosystem, both in terms of the practitioners, and also in terms of people like us." While artists like Guan Wei, Ah Xian, and Liu Xiao Xian, all of whom moved to Australia following the Tiananmen Square killings 16 years ago, are hardly household names, they are for the dealers, curators and gallery directors who make the art world go round. Their works are being quietly amassed by the collections that count, and they...
...kitchen table in Sydney's south, Liu Xiao Xian is "playing" chess on his laptop computer screen. Actually, he's clicking on images from his 2001 wooden sculpture, Game, in which meticulously carved Chinese and European pieces face off across a chess board. It's a typically disarming work from Liu, 41, whose photos and installations speak eloquently of his shift to Australia in 1990. "There are no rules how to move," he says. "That's been my experience - how to make the negotiation? How to make it workable?" With recent work taking center stage at the Art Gallery...
...They couldn't say hello in English, let alone have a conversation," says Gene Sherman, recalling the day Liu ("Shannon, we called him") shepherded brother Ah Xian and friend Guan Wei into her gallery in early 1989. Then on residencies at the University of Tasmania's School of Art, all three would settle permanently in Australia after Tiananmen Square, their causes helped by lobbying from the former cultural attach? to Beijing, Nicholas Jose. But while they exhibited in group shows together in the early '90s, only Guan Wei was picked up by an Australian commercial gallery. As it transpires, going...
...Among the exhibit's most strikingly bizarre objects is a gilt and silver ewer, which was entombed with Li Xian, a general during the short-lived Northern Zhou dynasty (559-581) in Ningxia. The ewer's shape is typical of the Sasanians who ruled the area that is now Iran, and whose designs the Chinese appropriated for everything from tableware to clothing. But it probably comes from Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological...
...seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...