"“As globalization's effects reverse across Asia and the world,” says Dee, “and as America enters a set of post-empire challenges-working artists are more keen than ever to exhibit in New York right now, as a place that tackles these geopolitical divides. Independent represents a commission opportunity for gallerists and exhibition platform where cultural references have the potential to be debated in their complexity and depth.”"
"Tseng Chien-Ying (b. 1987) is making his U.S. debut with a presentation with Kiang Malingue, New York, with works created both in Taiwan and at the artist residency 99Canal in New York. Tseng said that the residency has been “transformative.” The departure from his daily routines in Taiwan and the emotional tenor of New York itself, coupled with the necessity of having to source new materials and thus experiment with new techniques, has had a profound effect on his his work."
"“Rather than a complete departure from my work in Taiwan,” says Tseng, “I see the works made in New York as an extension or mutation of the same psychological world, shaped by a different environment and emotional climate.” Nevertheless, this new body of work still engages with the themes of Tseng's ongoing practice, including mythology, desire, power, and the dichotomy between beauty and violence."
Independent’s 17th edition includes at least six galleries presenting solo booths dedicated to Asian artists, ranging from emerging figures making U.S. debuts to major 20th-century Korean abstraction. The concentration signals a wider art-world inclination beyond fair walls, tied to globalization’s changing effects across Asia and the world and to America’s post-empire challenges. Working artists are increasingly drawn to New York as a place that addresses geopolitical divides. Independent is positioned as a commission opportunity for galleries and exhibition platforms where cultural references can be debated with complexity and depth. Tseng Chien-Ying’s U.S. debut with Kiang Malingue includes works made in Taiwan and at the 99Canal residency in New York, which he describes as transformative and as shaping new techniques while extending his existing psychological themes of mythology, desire, power, and beauty versus violence.
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