Interview with Karen Smith
By Olivier Krischer
ZHANG DALI, July(4), cyanotype on cotton duck, 280 X 237 cm, 2011. From Zhang Dali’s exhibition "World’s Shadows" at Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, 2011. Courtesy the Commercial Press.
During a busy Art HK week in late May, amid the myriad exhibition openings and talk events, long-time Beijing-based critic and writer, Karen Smith, was in Hong Kong to launch her latest book, As Seen 2011: Notable Artwork by Chinese Artists, just published by the Commercial Press. We met in a cavernous backroom at the Kee Club, to talk about how the book—a collection of 40 individual exhibition reviews of shows held through 2011, in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou—came about, and on shifts in the Chinese art scene.
