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Art 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2023

Dear esteemed art enthusiasts, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming art extravaganza-the 2023 Shanghai 021 Art Expo. This exhibition promises internationally renowned artists, galleries, and collectors at the Shanghai International Art Center.

The exhibition space has been meticulously designed with different areas showcasing each artist’s unique works. Each space is also connected to create a unified sensory experience. The artworks featured in this year’s 021 Art Expo are related to childhood wonder, purity, and the art of healing and soul, all guides the audience to delve deeper into the profound meanings behind each piece.

You can’t miss the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations with these exceptional artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts. Share your passion and insight about art.

 

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West Bund Art and Design Shanghai 2023

Dear all the art connoisseurs, such a pleasure to pronounce that we are about to embark on a journey of 2023 Shanghai West Bund Art and Design Expo!The expo will gather all the art and design elites from all the world. it’s a fusion of diverse cultures and exploration of different forms of art and design!

The curation aims to exhibit the diversity and unpredictable potential of contemporary art materials. Self-illuminating glass sculptures and so on hope to convey the “warm and powerful texture” to art connoisseurs with unique taste.

This time, we invited the artists: Alejandro Monge, Fernando De Ana, Kaja, Ryaskartstyle, Edoardo Cialfi and Cai Yixiu to liven up the exhibition! Also, you might bond with deeper understanding of the stories behind art and design by artist Cai Yixiu himself and gain fresh perspectives on this exhibition.

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Art Taipei 2023

The 30th anniversary of Art Taipei, the Taipei Art Fair, was grandly held at the Taipei World Trade Center, bringing together renowned galleries, artists, and art enthusiasts from around the world. TING TING ART SPACE showcased the works of 16 distinct artists, creating a unique visual feast and adding a vibrant touch to the exhibition!

The booth primarily presented contemporary art using various mediums, such as self-illuminating cast glass, layered wire sculptures, and sculptures breaking through the two-dimensional limitations. It aimed to discover and reunderstand the values within diverse cultures from different perspectives, offering a refreshing and immersive experience.

TING TING Art Space collaborated with internationally acclaimed emerging artists like Moisés, Katharina, Ryaskartstyle, Alejandro, Edoardo, and others, presenting a space for artistic exchange that combines innocent childlike charm, surreal futuristic sensations, and the healing tranquility of emptiness. This collaboration not only conveys the core values of the artists but also guides viewers to delve into the profound meanings behind each artwork, immersing them in this art extravaganza.

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Kiaf Seoul 2023

This year, TING TING Art Space participated for the first time in the Korea International Art Fair (Kiaf). Kiaf Seoul brings together top galleries and institutions from around the world and is held concurrently with the international art fair brand Frieze at the COEX Center in Seoul. TING TING Art Space is honored to be part of this event, contributing a distinctive touch to the internationalization of global art.

Adhering to the central idea of sharing contemporary aesthetics with the world, TING TING Art Space presented a joint exhibition featuring eight artists during Kiaf Seoul 2023, injecting fresh artistic nutrients into the exhibition. The booth primarily showcased captivating works from artists worldwide, spanning countries such as Spain, Slovenia, Russia, Israel, Italy, and more. It is believed that this exhibition in Seoul will yield significantly different experiences and provide viewers from diverse cultural backgrounds with a new, frameless, and unrestricted exhibition experience.

We are looking forward to TING TING Art Space’s continued participation in various international art events, anticipating the infusion of fresh ideas and a continued contribution to the creativity and vitality of the global art scene!

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Nicolás Romero 2023 Solo Exhibition

By creating a microcosm of a supermarket in the venue with Nicolás Romero’s art works, we generate the feeling of a daily life activity such as grocery shopping. While pushing a shopping cart and wandering through the refrigerators and shelves picking out groceries, entering the exhibition simultaneously feels like stepping into an art bazaar, pamphlet, and basket in hand. By building a bridge between viewers and the artist, the exhibition allows viewers to experience a future where “art is life” and “life is art.”

 
Nicolás turns the image of Gundam into items that appear in his daily life, redefining a new identity of Gundam characters. In other words, the images of Gundam which Nicolás depicts are composed of items which he either consumes, desires or those which don’t belong to him. Such daily items play a protective role in his life, just as whenever Gundam appears in animation, it is in the form of a giant defending its territory.

 

The pieces created for this exhibition present an integration of all forms of resistance and describe some specific moments from the past. Nicolás invites viewers to look at the relationship between past and present, identity and migration, resistance and change in a globalized world.

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Italian artists group exhibition

It is our pleasure to announce the gathering of works from four Italian artists: Cane, Antonio Cugnetto, Giorgio Tentolini, and Luigi Franchi for an exhibition taking place at the end of this year. The venue will be divided into two areas where on the first floor, the works of Luigi and Cane will showcase the fantasy of surrealism. On the second floor, Antonio Cugnetto and Giorgio Tentolini’s works will present the collison of classicalism and modernity.

Luigi Franchi

Zino, stage name of Luigi Franchi, was born in Teramo in 1973. Involved and interested in contemporary society, from consumerism to globalization, from pop culture to youth fashions, his journey has been characterized by the use of different materials mostly belonging to non-artistic environments such as Lego bricks, PVC balls, 3D printing. The constant search for new formal solutions to talk about today’s society and the curiosity to experiment with different languages to test their expressive potential are the basis of his work.

Koons Dog, 2023, Symbiosis,print onPlexiglas,gold leaf
M&M, 2021, Digital print on plexiglass and Lego, 70 x 50 cm

Giorgio Tentolini

Giorgio Tentolini was born in Casalmaggiore (Cremona) in 1978, he trained in Graphic Arts at the Toschi Art Institute in Parma.Each of his works is born from a precise investigation of Time as memory and identity, in a careful and slow reconstruction that takes place with the study of light and the engraving of layers of different materials, fabrics, papers, PVC. Tulle and adhesive tape are the current medium of his search for the meditative lightness that its layers give back to the image, a metaphor for places and memories, dreams and visions. A pictorial work living the reality of sculpture.

Torso di Apollo, 2021, mesh cut handmade, 120 x 160 cm
Capitolium, 2021, mesh cut handmade, 125 x 85 cm

Antonio Cugnetto

Born in Lamezia Terme in 1983, after graduating from the Liceo Artistico in Catanzaro, he moved to Florence where he graduated in Contemporary Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence in 2007.Curator Carolina Lio once commented on Antoni’s work: His creation is playful but ironic, a stylized little man, as in a children’s cartoon or cartoon, seems at first glance to be part of a childish and carefree scene , yet a second glance at the work reveals the grotesque details of its violence. Antoni’s work reveals the hypocrisy of everyday life, both serious and not-so-serious, often confined to our repressed unspoken intentions or realms of thought. And his choice them in a poor and childish language makes them all the more poignant.

Instigate, 2023, Recycled, plastic and rubber, 25 x 43 x 25 cm
Instigate, 2019, Oil on cardboard, 50×35 cm

Cane

Riccardo Nannini aka Cane comes from a working-class family in Toscana. While studying for his bachelor’s degree in design at the University of Milan, he often participated in street sit-ins and protests, which led to the creation of a wave of street art. He contacted with many famous street artists (Bros 、 Abbominevole 、 Ozmo), joined Antonio Colombo Gallery and became new contemporary artist in Milan. The year 2009 was an eventful year in his life. What started as a tragedy turned into an opportunity  to face a new life. He began to think about the issues he had encountered throughout his life: freedom of will, human nature and social pressure. He lived frugally  and took the time to redefine his creative style and narrative abilities.

A Birthday Party, 2022, Acrylics on canvas, 114×195 cm
Nobody knows who started the fight, 2019, Acrylics on canvas, 60 x 90 cm
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Dima Kashtalyan

Currently living in Poland, the 35-year-old Belarusian artist Dima, whether through his illustrations or street art, consistently showcases a unique style that is both wild and refined. He categorizes his art as pointillism or stippling, a technique that uses hand-drawn dots as the smallest units of an artwork.

What Dima wants to say in his work is closely tied to issues of modern society and individual life. He cleverly picks familiar everyday objects as the main subject matters of his work to evoke symbolic qualities and resonances. For example, he might depict a fox with a city growing out of its head or a bird carrying a turtle shell on its back. This approach not only invites viewers to think about the meaning of the work, but also creates dramatic visual impact. 

Dimension wise, he prefers to work on large canvases. This allows him to meticulously refine every detail so that even up close, viewers can appreciate the precision and depth of his work. Dima’s work is not just visual pleasures but also intellectual feasts, with each piece whispering profound insights into the world.

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Katharina Arndt 2023 Solo Exhibition

First Asian Solo Exhibition at Ting Ting Art Space

East German female artist illustrates her thoughts on the absurdity of modern filters and how consumerism fits in our society

Katharina Arndt was born in 1981 East Germany right before the two sides united. Even though from her birth till the unification in 1990, Katharina only experienced about ten years of communist society. This childhood life experience shaped her values and perspective, making her sojourn in Barcelona, Spain quite a culture shock and making her reflect on the different social culture.

For years, Katharina lived between Berlin and Barcelona. The two places are entirely different in national spirit, artistic cycle, and cultural sentiments. All of these factors and perspectives from the past communist East Germany made Katharina’s artistic perception, source of inspiration and her chosen media each possess their unique meaning and depth.

She grew up in a system and environment that did not have the concept of consumerism and a consumerist system but only consisted of people’s communes; years later, when Katharina was freely enjoying the Western consumerist products, such as beaches, sunshine, shopping etc., she could not help but start to reflect on this crossover of her social experiences from two opposite societies. She then took a step further and discussed the shallowness of human nature, and the behaviors and living attitude limited by all sorts of restrictions created by social media.

Showering under sunlight in Barcelona, lazily drinking iced alcohol or beverages on the beach, smoking from time to time… people are always taking pictures: of the sky, of the light, of the beach, of the food and alcohol, of themselves or each other… nonstop. After taking the pictures, people add on filters to embellish. Yet this heavenly sight, a series of filtered and perfect behavior and photos, yet when we put down our phones and look around, it is then when we discover the beaches covered in all kinds of leftovers, cigarette butts, and trash created by our behaviors.

Katharina ARNDT, Barceloneta Beach, 450 x 190 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023

Katharina consciously chose to use a more childlike brush stroke, meant to remain a distance from the real world; therefore presenting things as they genuinely are.

Lines seemingly simple and rough are actually well thought out and designed. Katharina’s personalized artistic interpretation abandons complicated figurative description and depicts the objects through focused and conceptual strokes.

Katharina uses lots of manmade materials (e.g. PVC film, painted paper and fiberglass), glossy acrylic and paint marker as her creative medium, meant to use the smooth texture and visualization to mock our world now that is filled with plastic and over-materialized.

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Giorgio Tentolini

Giorgio Tentolini was born in Casalmaggiore (Cremona) in 1978, he trained in Graphic Arts at the Toschi Art Institute in Parma, to graduate in design and communication at the University of Reggio Emilia. After stages with artists such as Marco Nereo Rotelli, he began a very personal research with installations on a photographic basis, for which he immediately obtained significant recognition. His paintings are influenced by his work as a photographer when he used to break down images in chiaroscuro levels.

Each of his works is born from a precise investigation of Time as memory and identity, in a careful and slow reconstruction that takes place with the study of light and the engraving of layers of different materials, fabrics, papers, PVC. Tulle and adhesive tape are the current medium of his search for the meditative lightness that its layers give back to the image, a metaphor for places and memories, dreams and visions. A pictorial work living the reality of sculpture.

Through the stratification of memories and experiences, the image resurfaces in this intangible substance, made possible only by losing oneself in a vision that does not follow the cognitive parameters of perception, raising doubts and questions about the true consistency of human being and the impossibility of fully grasping the essence of reality.

 

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Alejandro Monge

Born in 1988, studied Fine Arts, Sculpture and Visual Design at the Zaragoza Academy of Fine Arts. Currently focusing on sculpturing.

The portraits painted by Alejandro Monge transcend the visual depth of two-dimensional works. The volume and depth of his creations make them almost sculptural, striving to break through two-dimensional space. The chiaroscuro is reminiscent of Caravaggio; John Singer Sargent was his greatest influence.

Although Alejandro Monge specialized in sculpture during his visual arts training, the painted parts in his art are stunning in a hyperrealistic way that is reminiscent of photography and tries to trick the eyes of the observers. Afterward, he began to focus on the creation of sculptures and installations, one of which revolved around realistic banknote sculptures. Monge recreates them on paper and acrylic paint, stacking them in large piles, often in order to incinerate them. By destroying his own work, he satirizes his criticism of the omnipotent domination of today’s social and economic values, and this series has attracted extensive coverage and attention in the international media.

Alejandro Monge reflects on destruction as a new form of creation. While busts are invaded by contemporary classical elements, they still burn in the purest Baroque style or iconic objects reflecting contemporary events. With this, Monge presents an eclectic exhibition that combines different techniques and materials to generate an unusual aesthetic challenge. Each piece takes a long time to create, and he invests his body and soul, creating an emotional and psychological feedback between the artist and the piece.