ARTS
Tangible art at Arario
Published: Jun 14, 2011 11:50 AM

If you don't feel like battling the crowds at 798, but would like to experience the work of several artists from both home and abroad, then head to Arario Gallery in Jiuchang Art Complex - it's worth the time it will take you to find the gallery, in the west of Wangjing.

The show, namely Almost Tangible, features works varying from visual works to installations, by 10 artists from countries like Switzerland, Ireland and China. Walking into the space, the first thing that catches your eye is Solaris, an LED installation work created by American artist Leo Villareal in 2005. The LED lights and computer programming on this work indicates the artist's signature approach to create illuminated displays.   Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone sent three of his works to the space to celebrate its first large exhibition this year. His Across Dark Stream of Shooting Stars, Breathing The Water and Past? Present? Future? On Such Things are all themed with the juxtaposition of the spiritual and poetic with the banal and the everyday. Revolving around a reflection on spatial aspects and the relationship to transience and time.

At the show, you will see several visual artworks from Chinese artist Li Qing and Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudjonsson. Two video works from Gudjonsson, Crow and Asylum, will allow you into his thinking and world through his broken video narratives. He refused linearity and worked with superimposing cuts. Different from him, artist Li Qing narrates the real aspects of a society of consumption through Drift Floss. The mill girl in the video lives by working for hourly pay at a down coat factory and earns little money. But ironically she needs to pay a lot to get a desired dress.

Where: Arario Gallery, Jiuchang Art Complex, Beihuqu Road, Anwai Beiyuan, Chaoyang district (Take subway Line 13 to Wangjing West stop then take a taxi.) 

When: until August 21 

Contact: 5202-3808, www.arariogallery.com