Lost for Words - Peter Fraser

Peter Fraser is one of the most significant photographers to emerge from the new wave of British colour photography of the 1980s. Lost for Words is both the title of Fraser's solo exhibition which runs until 27 April 2010 at Ffotogallery, the national development agency for photography in Wales, and of his latest book, also published by Ffotogallery.  

From his photographs of the 1980s to the present, Fraser's works continue to be a testament to the transformative qualities of photography, transfiguring the mundane, the uninspiring and the kitsch into objects of contemplation.

Artist's website:

www.peterfraser.net

Exhibition runs until 27 April 2010

Ffotogallery, Turner House, Plymouth Road, Penarth, Cardiff.

www.ffotogallery.org

Lost for Words - From the Publisher's Note:

The outcome of visits to many diverse sites of interest across Wales, Lost for Words captures in Fraser's unique way, the spirit of the country.  As Fraser was born and grew up in Wales, the project has a particular significance in terms of his childhood memories.

The new photography signifies a certain departure in that it relishes the artificial and the illusory - the world of the museum, other worlds, model worlds.  There is a dreamlike quality to many pictures as a result.  Fraser's art does not shout; it is subtle, descriptive, attentive, enigmatic, private and often unexpected.

- Lost for Words is available from The Photographers' Gallery, London, Photo-Eye in USA and elsewhere and is distributed by Cornerhouse internationally.

ISBN-10:  1-872771-79-3
ISBN-13:  978-1-872771-79-3

What's Not To Like? Beijing Spring II

HAT TRICK FOR TAIKANG SPACE

• 51 m2    ON SITE - Cai Weidong
• A paradoxical white 'dark room', the location for a metaphorical society, a scrupulously and elegantly constructed installation and photograph
• Until 4 May 2010

• IN BETWEEN  - Han Lei
• Created by the artist from discarded test prints produced in the 1980s, beautiful, haunting installation layering strips of cropped and multiplied images, fragmented and satisfyingly incomplete.
• Until 17 June 2010

• WU YINXIAN AND HIS "BEIJING HOTEL"
• Hugely nostalgic photographs of the legendary Beijing Hotel taken in 1975, famous for housing visiting foreign heads of state and for its importance in elementary Chinese text books for teaching foreign students how to say "Wei? Ni shi Beijing Fandian ma?" by telephone
• Until 17 June 2010

Taikang Space, Red No.1-B2, Caochangdi, Cuigezhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing

www.taikangspace.com

**Part of Caochangdi Photo Spring 2010 Arles in Beijing**

What's Not To Like? Beijing Spring

Introducing the first of our What's Not To Like Bulletins.

To say why we like it would take too long. So here it is. In bullet points.

• FEELINGS ARE FACTS - Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong; leave your comfort zone and enter a stifling, discomforting, impenetrable fog of pure colour and light.
• GOLDEN GHOST - Surasi Kusolwong: finders keepers - mine a field of tangled yarn for buried gold necklaces.
• UCCA 798 Art District No.4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing
• Until 20 May 2010

• NUMBER SEVEN, PLUS OR MINUS TWO - Tony Oursler
• Winking eyeballs, burning cigarettes, weeping ragdolls.   
• Faurschou Beijing 798 Art District, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Caoyang District, Beijing
• Until 30 May 2010

• BEAUTY | FLOWERS IN PHOTOGRAPHY - Dietmar Busse, Thomas Florschuetz, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Martin Klimas, Vera Mercer, Erik Niedling, Christian Rothmann, Miron Schmuckle, Luzia Simons, Margriet Smulders, Michael Wesely
• Not a single calla lily in sight. Ambiguous, portentious...who said colour is vulgar?
• Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijing, 255 Caochangdi, Airport Service Road, 10005, Beijing
• Until 30 May 2010
• **Part of Caochangdi Photo Spring 2010 Arles in Beijing**

Whose Quality Control? Exhibition

Young curator Tang Kwok Hin invited five emerging artists to collaborate with twenty-five students from the Hong Kong School of Creativity.  Questioning who set the rules for quality control, the participants exchanged ideas and created works critiquing the standards that frame our behaviours and choices.

Curator: Tang Kwok Hin

Artists: Lo Chi Kit, Tong Ying Tung, Yenti, Lee Kai Chung, Fong Sam Yu, Silas, Lee Chun Fung.

Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity.

17 April - 9 May 2010

10am - 7pm

Containers As Evidence of Presence - Solo Exhibition by Tang Kwok Hin

Amelia Johnson Contemporary is extremely proud to present the first solo exhibition of young Hong Kong artist, Tang Kwok Hin.

Tang Kwok Hin is a rising star of the Hong Kong art scene.  His work is attracting interest from collectors and curators alike and he is fast becoming one of the most talked about Hong Kong artists of his generation, with a reputation for creating thought provoking work heavily infused with a local flavor. In 2009, he won First Prize at the Hong Kong Biennale.

For his first solo exhibition, entitled Containers as Evidence of Presence, Tang explores the idea that nothing can exist independently of anything else, even something as intangible as the air is defined by its material container.  Containers give protection to the things being contained, at the same time they offer conditions of existence: sometimes they need to be opened, for instance, a gift box or a treasure chest; sometimes they are hidden or out of sight.  ​The works in the exhibition depict the artist's fascination with the interdependent relationship of containers and the contained.     

Opening reception 29 April in the presence of the artist.

Exhibition runs until 30 May 2010.

Amelia Johnson Contemporary

G/F 6-10 Shin Hing Street, NoHo, Central, Hong Kong

www.ajc-art.com