Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini presents Asiana, A Survey of Contemporary Asian Art, features artist/curator Liu Jian’s selection of paintings, photography, prints, and video drawn from a vibrant group of both emergent and established Asian artists. Asiana offers viewers a powerful, exhilarating, and defining dialogue on a vital slice of Asian art today.

Featured works include delicate, meticulous works by the young Chinese master Pointillist Liu Ming, soft and powerful “chiaroscuro” paintings by the revered Korean artist Kwang Sung Park, as well as three ephemeral, and alluring portraits by the accomplished artist Zhang Ping.

A selection of shocking photographs by extraordinary Chinese-born performance artist and photographer Zhang Huan are also on view. Zhang Huan’s well-known work “Family Tree”, a photographic suite of nine images, recently realized a record value of $180,000+US at a London Auction house. In April 2007, Zhang Huan joined one of New York’s most prominent galleries Pace Wildenstein.

Additional photographic works on display include a selection from “vision artist” Maleonn’s photographic series; “Unforgivable Children” and “Chinese Story” accompanied by the ethereal and playful photographs of emerging Chinese photographer Liu Ren. Korean artist Jooyeon Park’s richly commentarial photographic record of Seoul street scenes and two multi-channel video pieces are also included in the exhibition. Various other esteemed Asian artists' acutely visionary works will be contributing further enhancing the gallery's exciting cross media survey of ASIANA.

On the Curator

Liu Jian began his curatorial work in 2000, and in the same year mounted an international exhibition for the Shanghai Art Museum. In 2004, he co-curated an exhibition of female painters for the Dou Lun Art Museum of Shanghai, and, in 2005, Jian selected a second exhibition for the Shanghai Museum. More recently, Liu Jian himself contributed works to the Shanghai Abstract Art Biennale.