Schoeni gallery Hong Kong plans online archive for website
Posted by artradar on May 4, 2009
ART ARCHIVE WEB
Head of Schoeni gallery Nicole Schoeni told Art Radar that as part of the revamp of the website, there are plans to digitise their artist literature to form an on-line archive, “though it may take a while given that there is 16 years’ worth of material” she warned with a laugh.
Zhang Lin Hai
Nicole’s father Manfred Schoeni along with Johnson Chang of Hanart were pivotal in the nineties in bringing Chinese contemporary art to the international stage. For example Schoeni held the historically important 8+8+1 exhibition in 1997 which showcased the works of 15 contemporary Chinese artists many of whom are now internationally famous including Yue Min Jun, Zeng Fan Zhi, Zhang Xiao Gang, Guo Jin and Yang Shao Bin.
Harnessing the web to share historically important art materials with a global audience is, perhaps surprisingly, still an unusual initiative. While museums are making big strides, few galleries as yet are making materials pubicly available even when this would help promote current exhibitions. No doubt this will change and we look forward to the day when research , images and interviews, previously locked down in print publications such as catalogues, are released to a wider web audience as a matter of course.
In the meantime, Schoeni is also making its first forays into the world of video documentary with a just-released video of Chinese artist Zhang Lin Hai’s recent show ‘Stunned Speechless at Today Museum in Beijing.
Zhang Lin Hai’s work often features a repeated signature motif of a bald male child against hauntingly bleak backdrops. This motif was born out of his own experiences of being adopted as a child and witnessing the devastation of the Cultural Revolution.
Nicole Schoeni is featured in the video which shows the artist supervising the installation of his work in the museum space.
Related links: Schoeni Gallery, Zhang Lin Hai
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marina said
Good afternoon.
I am an artist from Russia. Resident of the exhibition halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
I have a weekend in HK for 10 days, and I would like to show their pictures here,
I have a eight small paintings in the style of pop-art. That’s interesting. If possible, I expect an answer by email.
Thanks in advance.