Asian Art at Expo Chicago 2015
By Paul Laster
Expo Chicago, which opened to the public on September 17, returned to the Navy Pier this year with 140 exhibitors from 16 countries. The fourth edition of the fair featured five Asian galleries—Base Gallery and MA2 Gallery from Japan, Chambers Fine Art and Pearl Lam Galleries from China, and White Cube from Hong Kong—while many more domestic exhibitors featured Asian artists and those of the Asian diaspora at their stands.
Two special exhibitions—Israeli artist Nevet Yitzhak’s immersive video installation Off the Ruling Class (2015), which was commissioned and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and “Spaces of Consumption in Everyday Life,” a multiple booth display of works by Chinese artists from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing—solidified the fair’s aim to have a cultural exchange with Asia.
