SCOPE London art fair takes place this October at Lord's Cricket Ground, not far from Regents Park, and within walking distance of Frieze. SCOPE London will present 50 international exhibitors as well as special events and museum-quality programming.
The SCOPE Foundation will hold its second edition of Museum Presents, a non-commercial exhibition space in the SCOPE London 2008 hall. Museum Presents focuses on emerging contemporary art market trends concentrating on emerging talent from India, North Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia; SCOPE's second edition of Museum Presents will feature China. The exhibition will present a selection of contemporary Chinese art from the Saatchi Gallery, including the work of Zhang Yuan, Li Yan and Yin Zhaohui.
Zhang Yuan, 'Brilliance', 2007
Oil on canvas, 210 x 280 cm
Zhang Yuan's paintings, rendered in the thinnest grey pigments over chalky white backgrounds, convey a dream-like state, where unrelated images converge as subconscious narrative suggestions, creating their own associations and tangents through the viewer's instinctive response.
Li Yan, 'Accident No.6', 2007 (detail)
Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 cm
Li Yan's Accident series Nos. 5 & 6 deal with the phenomenon of horror. Approaching painting as a forensic activity, Li's works are comprised of groups of small canvases to reconstruct disaster scenes as elaborate narratives. Following the format of media reportage, each painting contributes a different perspective to the drama, presenting 'evidence' as fragmented info bytes for viewer scrutiny and re-assemblage.
Yin Zhaohui, 'Untitled (Fingers)', 2007
Oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Working from photographs rather than from life models, Yin Zhaohui appropriates photography's mechanical aesthetics in his paintings of the body. Devices such as greyscale palette, forced lighting effects, and areas of intensified or diffused focus reinforce an unnatural perception of distinctly human features - such as the hands and face - creating a jarring sense of the uncanny.
'The Revolution Continues: New Art from China' is the inaugural exhibition at the new Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, and runs until 18 January 2009. Free admission to all shows at the Saatchi Gallery - including temporary, curated exhibitions - has been enabled through the Gallery's corporate partnership with the leading contemporary art auction house Phillips de Pury & Company.
SCOPE London
Lord's Cricket Ground
London
16-19 October |
