Zhang Huan: Altered States - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 888158641X ISBN 13: 9788881586417

Publisher: Edizioni Charta Srl, 2007

Synopsis

Language: English - 180 pages - color and b/w illustrations - Edizione in lingua inglese - English Edition - Zhang Huan è noto soprattutto per la provocatoria produzione dei primi anni, una lavoro di foto-performance a Pechino che trattava la relazione tra la resistenza fisica e la tranquillità spirituale. A partire dal suo trasferimento a New York, la sua opera esplora spesso incroci culturali, e le sue più recenti sculture e installazioni di grandi dimensioni risultano distintamente introspettive e in qualche modo religiose. Zhang Huan: Altered States include testi su ogni fase dell'affascinante carriera dell'artista a Pechino, New York e Shanghai, dai noti esperti di arte contemporanea, così come la prospettiva stessa di Zhang Huan la sua opera e la sua concezione dell'arte.

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Review:

One of the foremost artists in China's new wave, Zhang Huan creates personal and politicised work that encompasses performance art, photography, painting, installation and sculpture. Zhang Huanis a monograph assessing the impact of his explorations of identity, transgression and spirituality. It takes in his early, often extreme, performance art in China and New York - My New York for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, saw him donning a suit sewn from raw beef, imitating the bodybuilders he had seen who tried to adopt an appearance of strength to hide their real weakness and unease - and takes us up to his laboriously created, deeply affected ash paintings and sculptures, created with incense ash collected from Shanghai temples.
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About the Author:

Interview: RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, critic and curator who pioneered the study of performance art. Author of several seminal books, including Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979) and Performance: Live Art from the 1960s (1998), she is the Founding Director of ‘Performa’, a non-profit organization for the development, commission and presentation of performance art.

Survey: Yilmaz Dziewior is a critic and curator based in Hamburg, where he is professor in art theory at the Hochschule für bildende Künste. Formerly Curator at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and Director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, where he organized an exhibition of Zhang Huan’s work in 2002, he is currently Co-Curator of the 7th Biennial Exhibition of Visual Arts in Limerick (2009). His writing has been published in Artforum, Camera Austria and Texte zur Kunst, as well as in numerous exhibition catalogues.

Focus: Robert Storr is Dean of the School of Art at Yale University. Formerly Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he directed the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in 2004 and the Venice Biennale in 2007. He was a contributing author to Phaidon’s Alex Katz (2005), Louise Bourgeois (2003) and Raymond Pettibon (2001), and writes regularly for numerous journals and magazines, including Art in America, Frieze and Parkett.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edizioni Charta Srl
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 888158641X
• ISBN 13: 9788881586417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200