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Michael J. Hatch on Curatorial Dilemmas at the ICCA and UCCA

Earlier this month, two shows opened in two of Beijing’s larger and higher-profile contemporary art venues, both located in a dug-up 798 Art Zone now in the throes of pre-Olympic construction. Community of Tastes at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art and Stray Alchemists at its neighbor the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art take rather divergent views on what an “international” show is and ought to be here in Beijing, the capital of Chinese contemporary art. Both also offer sites of reflection on two critiques constantly leveled upon the Chinese art world: that its curatorial concepts are weak; and that work by Chinese artists is somehow shallower, less mature than, or derivative of work by their foreign counterparts.

The newly opened Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (or ICCA) is a private art center with a grand vision, seeming to spring from a similar mold to the UCCA

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