Chen Zhen: The Body as Landscape - Softcover

Lum, Kenneth; Vissault, Maite; Min'An, Wang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3939738301 ISBN 13: 9783939738305

Publisher: Verlag Moderne Kunst, 2007

Synopsis

Chen Zhen Preface by Matt Gerald. Text by Ken Lum, Maite Vissault, Wang Min An.

About this title

Synopsis:

Chen Zhen (1955-2000) was among the members of the Chinese avant-garde who chose exile over political repression. In 1986, he left home for Paris, where he began to show pioneering work he called 'open sculpture', which soon found international acclaim. Chen Zhen's pieces often presented utopias of multicultural dialogue, poetic landscapes full of unusual material alliances, hybrids and new connections between Eastern traditions and the Western artistic vocabulary. That fundamentally personal approach, in echoing his own spiritual seeking and cultural homelessness, radiates enormous power. This selection of more than 30 drawings, photographic works, sculptures, and installations made between 1978 and 2000 tracks each major phase of the artist's work. This title was published to accompany an exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, May-September 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verlag Moderne Kunst
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3939738301
• ISBN 13: 9783939738305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96