Rowena Chiu - The Glass Magazine

Derek Jarman: When yellow wishes to ingratiate it becomes gold at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery

August 3, 2021

UPON entering Derek Jarman’s exhibition at Amanda Wilkinson’s eponymous first floor gallery in Soho, London, a visitor may be mistaken in thinking they have stumbled across a repository of reliquaries from anot...

The fourth in our series on meditative art – Glass profiles Roger Hiorns’ Seizure at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Rowena Chiu

June 4, 2020

Art, Feature

Glass presents the fourth in our online series on meditative art installations from across the world IN 2008, Roger Hiorns requisitioned a derelict postwar council flat on Harper Road in Elephant and Castle, S...

The third in our series on meditative art – Glass profiles Wolfgang Laib’s Wax Room at The Phillips Collection

Rowena Chiu

April 23, 2020

Art, Feature

Glass presents the third in our online series on meditative art installations from across the world. WOLFGANG Laib has been making quietly resonant works out of organic materials such as milk, pollen, rice and...

The second in our series on meditative art – Glass profiles Walter De Maria’s Large Red Sphere at the Türkentor

Rowena Chiu

April 16, 2020

Art, Culture, Feature

GLASS presents the second in our online series on meditative art installations from across the world. The Türkentor in Munich is a neoclassical gatehouse in grounds that were formerly the Prinz-Arnulf barrac...

The first in our series on meditative art – Glass profiles Christian Boltanski’s Animitas at Jupiter Artland

Rowena Chiu

April 9, 2020

Art, Feature

Glass presents the first in our online series on meditative art installations from across the world ANIMITAS is a permanent installation by French artist Christian Boltanski commissioned by Jupiter Artland in ...

Glass encounters Francesco Clemente: Pastels at Levy Gorvy, London

Rowena Chiu

January 30, 2020

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

FRANCESCO Clemente: Pastels is a long-anticipated survey of the New York-based artist’s forty year oeuvre of pastel works on paper curated by Bill Katz. Entering the West Gallery of Levy Gorvy’s London space, v...

Glass encounters Craigie Aitchison and the Beaux Arts Generation at Piano Nobile Gallery

Rowena Chiu

November 21, 2019

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

PERHAPS one of the most British of British painters, Craigie Aitchison entered the Slade School of Fine Art in the autumn of 1952, accompanied by his beagle named Somerset. Even as a student, Aitchison’s acute ...

Glass visits Leonor Antunes: the Frisson of the Togetherness at the Whitechapel

Rowena Chiu

February 9, 2018

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

ANTUNES’ first solo project in London, the Frisson of the Togetherness, borrows its title from British architect Alison Smithson’s description of how young people bring together elements of style to define thei...

Glass reviews Rachel Whiteread’s show at Tate Britain

Rowena Chiu

November 28, 2017

Art, Exhibitions, Feature

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THE first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993, Rachel Whiteread’s work explores the overlooked and unexamined, breathing life into neglected space whilst underlining absence. Glass visits a survey spanning th...

A Monumental Vision – Glass visits the Schindler House in West Hollywood

Rowena Chiu

September 7, 2017

Architecture, Design, Feature, Travel

INCONSPICUOUSLY nestled on Kings Road in West Hollywood is the Schindler House, built by Rudolf Schindler between 1921-22, when the site was rural farmland. Recognised as one of the precursors of contemporary a...

Glass meets artist Christopher Page on the opening of his show at UNIT9, London

Rowena Chiu

March 8, 2017

Art, Feature

CHRISTOPHER Page’s installation, Exterior. (Morning.), conceived for UNIT9 project space in east London is an immersive site-specific environment that draws from Baroque quadratura –illusionistic ceiling painti...

Glass visits Robert Therrien’s enchanting exhibition of works from 1975-1995 at Parasol Unit

Rowena Chiu

November 23, 2016

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Through The Looking Glass – Glass visits Robert Therrien’s enchanting exhibition of works from 1975-1995 at Parasol Unit No title (blue oval), 1983. Photograph: Douglas M Parker Studio A PAINTED w...

Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977. © The Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo- John Cliett

Glass meets Patti and Bill Dilworth, guardians of Walter De Maria’s Broken Kilometer and New York Earth Room

Rowena Chiu

September 30, 2016

Art, Feature

INCONSPICUOUSLY nestled within the streets of New York’s Soho, Dia Art Foundation commissioned and has been quietly maintaining two mammoth installations by Walter De Maria since the late 1970s. The text on Dia...

Great Plains – Glass visits the architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio in Illinois

Rowena Chiu

March 28, 2016

Architecture, Design, Feature

“ORGANIC buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.” Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Llo...

An Arcadian vision – Glass visits Philip Johnson’s Glass House, the last work of an eccentric architect

Rowena Chiu

August 11, 2015

Culture, Feature, Glass Design

The quintessential architect’s playground, The Glass House estate was built by Philip Johnson in a span of some 50 years, between 1949 and 1995. An ever-accumulating landscape that bridged the Ancient, Classica...

China on my mind

Rowena Chiu

June 6, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture

Contemporary Chinese artists track the growing contradictions and conflicts between old and new China, testing the perimeters between traditional and contemporary art, whilst all the time explorin...

Talking shop

Rowena Chiu

July 31, 2012

Avant Art, Feature

Kiosk was set up in 2005 on Spring Street in Soho, New York. Half museum, half store, it has since atttracted a quiet following of customers interested in meticulously sourced artefacts from around the worl...

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