Artist Gordon Cheung will be in conversation with ArtReview and ArtReview Asia editor-in-chief Mark Rappolt, on the occasion of his exhibition Tears of Paradise at Edel Assanti, London (through 7 March). Their discussion will focus on ideas raised in Cheung’s recent work in which he witnesses and interprets the emergence of China as a twenty first century global superpower, framing current events in the context of the “Century of Humiliation” and the opium wars.
Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back
The artist’s first institutional presentation outside of Asia, at New York’s Swiss Institute, tells a story of industry and postcolonial culture in spare parts
