{"id":27449,"date":"2016-12-07T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=27449"},"modified":"2016-12-06T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:38:05","slug":"xu-zhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/xu-zhen\/","title":{"rendered":"xu zhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27450\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27450\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XuZhen.jpg\" alt=\"xuzhen\" width=\"584\" height=\"3069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XuZhen.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XuZhen-57x300.jpg 57w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XuZhen-195x1024.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GASP! Ceramics? No. Cake frosting? No.\u00a0Brace yourself, it&#8217;s OIL PAINT! Both of these stunning pieces are from a series titled <em>&#8220;Under Heaven&#8221;<\/em>, which could not be more accurate! I saw the\u00a0heavenly work of Chinese artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/2016-09-08_xu-zhen\/thumbnails#artworks\" target=\"_blank\">Xu Zhen<\/a>\u00a0when I was at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbasel.com\/miami-beach\" target=\"_blank\">Art Basel Miami Beach<\/a> last week. It took my breath away, obviously. I wanted to touch it<em> (ok, and maybe taste it)<\/em>, but I controlled myself. Here&#8217;s an Instagram\u00a0video I took, getting up close and personal with that circular piece&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNfVjqgg3a3\/\" target=\"_blank\">oh. my. word. oil paint?! work by xu zhen &#8220;under heaven&#8221; #artbaselmiami #artbasel<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A video posted by the jealous curator (@thejealouscurator) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-12-01T21:29:12+00:00\">Dec 1, 2016 at 1:29pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GASP! Ceramics? No. Cake frosting? No.\u00a0Brace yourself, it&#8217;s OIL PAINT! Both of these stunning pieces are from a series titled &#8220;Under Heaven&#8221;, which could not be more accurate! I saw the\u00a0heavenly work of Chinese artist Xu Zhen\u00a0when I was at Art Basel Miami Beach last week. It took my breath away, obviously. I wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27454,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27449\/revisions\/27454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}