CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART (oct 7, 1987 – dec 20, 2010)
Description:
YONG PING
- Ju Ming Dada (influenced by Duchamp)
- constructed symbols of state power out of fired blocks
- represented the final destruction of these buildings
- state power will eventually decay and become taken over by nature
- all states are vulnerable to time
- created a living arena of the natural world
- anti-art
- performance art
- created a suit out of raw meat to make him look like a body builder
- comments on the training of body-builders (he could recreate it quickly)
ZHANG HUAN
- created a Buddha made of ash that slower disintegrates
- incense ash represents the nation's memory
- ash paintings of everyday farming scenes
- similar to the sand paintings of Buddhist Munks
CAI GUO-QIANG
- explored the properties of gun powder mixed with paint
- previously a set designer
XU BING
- print making
- hand-made books and scrolls of false Chinese characters
- criticism about how and who constructs meaning
- rubbings from the Great Wall
- was a way to record objects without photos
- silkworms spin silk over books
- makes viewers reflect on human behaviour and intervention
AI WEIWEI
- readymade, conceptual art
- inspired by Duchamp
- fascinated with China's cultural heritage
- dropped artifacts
- chandelier of glass crystals inspired by Tatlin
- porcelain sunflower seeds
- invites viewers to look more closely at the "made in China" phenomenon
- effort of hundreds of skilled hands (not machines)
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120JAV
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