2020 Paris Asia Now: Les Salons Hoche

Written by Mind Set Art Center

Mind Set Art Center, Double Square Gallery, Project Fulfill Art Space and Chi-Wen Gallery are going to jointly take part in the sixth edition of Asia Now Paris Asia Art Fair 2020. The presentation is curated by Chi-Wen Huang (the founder of Chi-Wen Gallery) entitled “Taipei Focus”, comprising artists Yu Cheng-Ta, Su Misu, River Lin, Su Hui-Yu, Zhang Xu-Zhan, LIN Guan-Ming and Jin-Hua Shi. When most art events pause or shift to online viewing room for the influence of COVID-19 pandemic, Asia Now will still take place at 9 avenue Hoche, Paris 8e from 21-24 October as scheduled and collaborates with Ocula to connect with audiences around the world. This art fair would undoubtedly bring Paris vigorous colors during this challenging period.

 

Clothing Project was performed in 2004 by Mind Set Art Center’s artist SHI Jin-Hua when he was an artist in residence in New York MoMA PS1. The project consisted of the measurement of the perimeter of the art institution. He first collected clothes donated by PS1 employees and fellow visiting artists. He put on seventy-seven pieces of the clothes after numbering each of them and took a photograph of each layer that he had on. Subsequently, the seventy-seven pieces of clothes were cut into strips and sewn into a “tape measure” to measure the perimeter of PS1. In the end, the perimeter of the center was equivalent to the length of 21 pieces of clothes sewn together. This project converted metric units into clothes worn by people. The 21 pieces of clothes which used to be wrapped around the artist were then surrounding PS1, revealing the relationship and roles between art institutions and artists.

 

Asia Now was founded in 2015 by French senior art collector Claude Fain and his daughter Alexandra Fain. It is the only art fair emphasis on the representation of Asian contemporary art in Europe and runs concurrently with Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain and Paris Internationale every October.