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10 Artists Who Defined Chinese Contemporary Art

Ai Weiwei’s willingness to confront the Chinese government over censorship, shoddy building practices, and even his own detention—along with his mastery of Twitter and Instagram—has helped him hoover up news headlines outside China. Inside China, he is less well-known, and even in the art world there, it can be hard to find people who wholeheartedly admire his work.

As Ai’s art has turned outwards, focusing on the plight of refugees and the stateless all over the world, other artists have played a bigger role in shaping contemporary art in China, in part by skilfully juggling the competing needs of commercial galleries, international institutions, and government officials.

These are the 10 artists who have shaped the landscape of contemporary art in China over the last several decades, and continue to have an outsize influence. While this time period has been admittedly male-heavy (Cao Fei is the only woman represented on this list), fellow female tech-enthusiasts Miao Ying and Lu Yang can be counted as leaders among China’s generation of emerging artists.

Qiu Zhijie

B. 1969, Zhangzhou. Lives and works in Beijing and Hangzhou.

A one-thousand-time copy of Lantingxu, 1990-1997. Qiu Zhijie Tianrenheyi Art Center

Writing the “Orchid Pavilion Preface” One Thousand Times 书写兰亭序一千遍, 1990-1995. Qiu Zhijie Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

If Qiu Zhijie sleeps at all, it can’t be for long. In the past year, he has made a massive new piece for the Guggenheim Museum survey “Art and China after 1989”; curated the Chinese pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale; and continued to head up the School of Experimental Art at the elite Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in Beijing. He was also instrumental in launching China’s national contemporary art museum, The Power Station of Art (PSA), curating its inaugural show, the 2012 Shanghai Biennale, and giving the institution its English name, the acronym of which is a riff on New York’s MoMA PS1.

Qiu’s embrace of all aspects of the art world is matched by a practice he describes as “Total Art,” which encompasses everything from conceptual calligraphy in works such as Writing the “Orchid Pavilion Preface” One Thousand Times (1990–95) to the investigation of a Nanjing bridge infamous for suicides. A big part of his practice has become idea maps, one of the few forms expansive enough for the breadth of his vision.

Huang Yong Ping

B. 1954, Xiamen. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Installation view of Huang Yong Ping,Tower Snake, at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2009. Photo by David Regen. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

The oldest artist on this list, and the one who has lived outside China the longest, Huang Yong Ping nevertheless continues to make waves in Chinese contemporary art. His Theater of the World (1993), a reptile and insect battle royale that requires exhibitors to replenish the supply of live insects and reptiles, was removed from a show at the Guggenheim after protests that it was cruel to animals—a bank-shot success, given the work’s intention to depict brutality and chaos.

Huang was among the first generation of art students to attend the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) when universities reopened after the Cultural Revolution. When unable to purchase his own copy of Pierre Cabanne’s Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1971), Huang copied a Chinese translation to take back to friends in Xiamen, Fujian Province, where he helped found Xiamen Dada, a blend of ideas from Marcel Duchamp and Chan Buddhism. After his inclusion in the ambitious “Magiciens de la Terre”exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou in 1989, Huang later moved to France, representing the country at the Venice Biennale in 1999. He continues to occupy a distinct niche in Chinese art, often using found objects and animal imagery to comment on modern society.

Yang Fudong

B. 1971, Beijing. Lives and works in Shanghai.

Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, Part I, 2003. Yang Fudong Asia Society

The godfather of video art in China may be OCAT Shanghai museum director Zhang Peili, but its leading proponent right now is Yang Fudong. Whereas Zhang’s early, career-making videos document difficult, arduous performances—painstakingly re-gluing a shattered mirror, for instance—Yang’s sumptuous multi-channel works are light on narrative but look cinematic, shot with a large crew and with careful attention paid to sets, wardrobe, and styling.

Lately, Yang’s aesthetic has lingered in Shanghai’s belle époque era, an international, hedonistic jazz age that preceded the Communist Revolution. Earlier works present a more minimal aesthetic. The five-part series “Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest” (2003–07), shot in black-and-white 35mm film, references the legendary Seven Sages, a group of Daoist intellectuals from the 3rd century, as commentary on the new generation’s struggles to define their roles in modern China.

Yang is also known for his still photography, often of the same subjects that appear in his video works. Among his most famous early photographs is the triptych The First Intellectual (2000), which shows a bloody, battered businessman holding a briefcase and, even more ominously, wielding a brick.

Zeng Fanzhi

B. 1964, Wuhan. Lives and works in Beijing.

7月22日/ On 22 July , 2016. Zeng Fanzhi "Studio" at Qiao Space, Shanghai

Few contemporary Chinese artists fetch as much at auction as Zeng Fanzhi. A member of the Cynical Realism movement, which formed in Beijing in the early 1990s, Zeng’s angst-ridden portraits—like the work of peers Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, and Fang Lijun—address sociopolitical issues in China with humor and irony. The intensity of his work is influenced by artists including Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, and Max Beckmann.

Zeng has continually taken his practice in surprising directions, moving away from his successful and recognizable paintings of masked figures to landscapes inspired by the Northern Wei, Song, and Yuan Dynasties, which he obscures with thick black bracken. He has also experimented with expressionistic techniques such as multi-brush painting, where he paints with two hands at once: The first brush is controlled, while the second makes unguided strokes. This integration of the unconscious in his technique is itself a wry commentary on China’s asymmetric, oft-interrupted liberalization over the past 20 years.

Xu Zhen

B. 1977, Shanghai. Lives and works in Shanghai.

Eternity-Painted Terracotta Statue of Heavenly Guardian, Sleeping Muse, 2016. Xu Zhen 徐震 James Cohan

Under Heaven - 20130503, 2013. Xu Zhen 徐震 Tianrenheyi Art Center

The great ironist of Chinese contemporary art calls everything into question, including his identity, country, and the art industry at large. Xu’s 2005 mockumentary 8848-1.86—which is about seizing the top 1.86 meters of Mount Everest and carting it back to Shanghai—satirizes world governments’ Realpolitik ethos.

In 2009, Xu founded the “art creation company” MadeIn, subsuming his artistic identity as the CEO and producing artworks (“products”) that celebrated their commodification. His sumptuously textural “Under Heaven” paintings (2014–18), for instance, are sold by the square meter, and he has exhibited several editions of his works side by side, obliterating the conventional pretense that each work is unique.

Xu also has a gleeful antipathy for gallery-goers’ photography, painting glaring camera flashes directly onto perfect replicas of famous artworks in his “Light Source”series (2013), and spearing cameras through the lens in his “Focus”installations (2016). Recent mashups of different cultures are occasionally brilliant, such as the European Thousand-Arms Classical Sculpture (2014), where multi-limbed Buddhist figures are suggested by lineups of classical Western sculptures.

Liu Xiaodong

B. 1963, Liaoning. Lives and works in Beijing.

Xiaojun and Xiuling, 2015. Liu Xiaodong Faurschou Foundation

Liu Xiaodong may be China’s greatest living painter, an especial achievement given how popular the medium remains there. Working either en plein air or from snapshots, his portraits, loosely built in thick paint with a wonderful eye for color, draw directly from life. While his style is influenced by Lucian Freud, Liu’s subjects are the lao bai xing (common people), often portrayed wearing unglamorous fashions and viewed under harsh fluorescent lights, in front of smoggy skies and semi-demolished buildings, or in overgrown fields.

Liu’s brand of social realism—painting people as they are—is a powerful counter to the socialist realism perpetrated by Chairman Mao Zedong, which encouraged idealized, ideological renderings for use as propaganda. Liu’s work has a much broader embrace, reflecting the dignity of uncelebrated lives rocked by massive political and economic transformation. Coming from a small industrial town in the northeast of China, Liu received both his undergraduate and master’s degrees at CAFA, where he is now a tenured professor in the painting department.

Cao Fei

B. 1978, Guangzhou. Lives and works in Beijing.

Whose Utopia, 2006. Cao Fei "Cao Fei" at MoMA PS1, Long Island City

Being the youngest—and the only Chinese—artist commissioned to create a BMW Art Car is among the most prosaic ways Cao Fei is exceptional, but the approach she took to the project in 2017 is telling. Leaving the carbon-black paint job untouched, her design is visible only via an augmented reality app. Making the fantastical visible is a recurring theme in Cao’s practice. Notably, she made use of the online world Second Life to create the utopian RMB City (2008–11), a carnivalesque megalopolis inspired by the heady development of China’s rich east coast cities.

Cao also explores the disconnect between people’s fantasy and real lives in video and photography works such as Whose Utopia? (2006), where she asked factory workers to act out expressions of individuality (dancing ballet, playing guitar, and so on), and COSPlayers (2004), where she photographed fantasy roleplayers in the grim, over-industrialized landscapes of southern China. Now, Cao is perfectly positioned to comment on the emerging techno-authoritarian China enabled by ubiquitous e-commerce, oppressive social credit systems, and new identification technologies.

Zhang Huan

B. 1965, Anyang. Lives and works in Shanghai and New York, New York.

To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995. Zhang Huan Galerie Loft

Zhang Huan is one of the most radical artists in contemporary art. After graduating from CAFA in 1993, he helped form the East Village movement, which staged provocative shows often shut down by police. In his performance 12 Square Meters (1994), Zhang covered himself in honey and fish oil and sat naked in a public toilet, allowing himself to be covered in flies—an expression of the poverty and overcrowding prevalent in the country.

As abject as that work is, others are sublime and empowering. Zhang and nine other artists piled their naked bodies atop a mountain to increase its elevation in To Add One Metre to an Anonymous Mountain (1995), effortlessly re-engineering the world. Other outstanding performances include his literal efforts to pull down museums, and the muscular meat suit he made—long before Lady Gaga—for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, a comment on the U.S.’s role as a world power and the political climate of the War on Terror.

Zhang has since shifted his focus from performance to production, creating paintings made with incense ash collected from temples; engaging taxidermists to imprint Buddha figures on cattle skins; and making huge copper sculptures of Buddha body parts reassembled almost at random—a reference to the way Buddha sculptures have been blown up, decapitated, and dismembered across East Asia.

Xu Bing

B. 1955, Chongqing. Lives and works in Beijing.

Book from the Sky 1987–91, 1987-1991. Xu Bing 徐冰 "Xu Bing: Book from the Sky" ay Blanton Museum of Art, Austin

Trained as a printmaker, MacArthur fellow Xu Bing’s greatest preoccupation is language. One of his best-known works is Book From the Sky (1987–91), an audacious text created using 4,000 characters that adhere to the fundamentals of Chinese pictographic composition, but don’t exist in the Chinese language. It’s a work that echoes China’s abrupt transition from traditional to simplified characters beginning in the 1940s. Xu also made a bridge language—a kind of Esperanto of the East—by arranging English words in the style of Chinese pictographs, and later made Book From the Ground: From Point to Point (2012), a complex narrative told entirely using emojis and public signage.

Other great works include his Tobacco Project (1999–ongoing). Here, tiger pelt installations—whose stripes are formed from 500,000 cigarettes—are arranged with either their orange filters or white papers exposed. Xu’s father died of lung cancer, so the piece is hardly a “thank you for smoking.” But considering how frequently conversation in China is accompanied by smoking, the piece also functions as a metaphor for language, which represents a ritual or bond.

Cai Guo-Qiang

B. 1957, Quanzhou. Lives and works in New York, New York.

Cai Guo-Qiang,Sky Ladder, 2015. Photo by Wen-You Cai. Courtesy of Cai Studio.

Installation view of Cai Guo-Qiang: Da Vincis do Povo, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2013. Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Studio

The most bombastic Chinese artist is too big for the art world alone—and now there’s a Netflix documentary about him, too. Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang was released in 2016, long after a leaked video of the events at its center garnered 30 million views online in just two days. After several stymied attempts to realize Sky Ladder (2015)—a 1,650-foot chain of fireworks suspended by a helium balloon—Cai did it in secret, without getting the necessary permissions from Chinese officials and skipping the country immediately afterwards in case of repercussions. Equally audacious, he suspended “exploding” cars (using neon lights arranged to resemble sparks) from the ceiling of the Guggenheim for his solo show there in 2008, and used four barges to fire off daytime fireworks for the opening of a solo show at the PSA in 2014.

Cai also curated the superb inaugural show at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Entitled “Peasant Da Vincis,” the exhibition displayed the inventions of everyday tinkerers from around China making wonderful, weird work—from flying saucers to robots—outside of the market. Long after Zhang Huan and Xu Bing returned to China, Cai continues to live in New York, and he has a canny sense of how Chinese art is perceived both inside and outside of the country.

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californiacoastparent · 8 years ago

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Madeleine McCann’s parents have unveiled to Sunday Evening the extent of the inefficient Spain authorities analysis following their three-year oldis disappearance from the vacation resort in 2007, including the feasible hide of 1 or even more paedophiles breaking into vacation flats and attacking British households in the region.

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McCann and Kate refuse eliminating their child, after she disappeared in da Luz, Madeleine, whose whereabouts remain unfamiliar ten years. Perspective: Channel Seven.

Alternatively Kate McCann were called the primary suspects within their childis disappearance in the Sea Club from openly protecting themselves at that time since it was banned under Colonial regulation avoided.

“The ridiculous point is that Madeleine perished in the apartment by an accident and we concealed her body,” Mr McCann informed Sunday Evening. “Properly, when did she possess the incident and die? ‘Cause the only real time she was quit unattended was whenever we were at supper, so if she perished subsequently, how might we’ve discarded or concealed her body? You understand, when there is an immediate research?

Tthree-year old McCann, who went missing in 2007. Picture: AP

“It Is simply rubbish! And if she perished or dropped, why might we protect up that whenever we were in the condo?”

The McCanns had earlier described that there is just an hour or so where their daughter disappeared, because Mr McCann had observed her sleeping within the apartmentis top space at 9.05pm so when her mom visited examine at 10pm she was eliminated and also the closed screen was available.

their buddies as well as the McCanns had invested six nights at a tapas restaurant across the pool from their apartments had type of sight to the stop of villas where their kids slept.

“We usually speak about the choice we created, that you discussed, you know, ‘do you consider that’ll be OK or not?’ I imply, that never arrived to it,” Mrs McCann said. “It was an incident of, ‘we are able to consume here. The children, you know, won’t be troublesome. We will have them sorted and subsequently we may all eat.’ I imply, it had been merely like that. If there’d been any danger at all that had happened to us, then it simply would not have happened.”

‘Worst parent’s nightmare’: Kate and Gerry McCann about child Madeleine’s disappearance. Picture: Eight

Madeleine was sleeping in one single bed in the leading space, using the twins, Amelie and Sean , cots by her part.

“It was one of these adult moments where I thought we are so fortunate. Take a look at kids that are her.’ Three, we are having a holiday. The youngsters truly enjoyed it, and I there was she a few seconds,” McCann said. “which was the last.”

A mix of two images launched by Madeleine McCannis representative on May 1, 2009 exhibits Maddie McCann in the era of 3 (M), and an ‘age-progression’ picture of her in the era of 6. Picture: AFP PICTURE/ HO

The McCanns’ apartment was about the finish, many available that is the in the door that is street. The was locked but the back to permit simple access to check up on their kids.

“The drapes, which have been shut, just swung open in to the space and also the window was completely up had been pressed right across, and then I simply knew. I simply understood she’d been obtained,” Mrs McCann said. “I went towards the screen. I actually donot understand what I observe or find. You understand, you simply wish you are going to observe your youngster every minute.

” in my own head that somebody had obtained easily type of hoped that perhaps she was hiding in a cabinet or anything her. I do not know why you realize, I understood I whizzed around the apartment in about 10 seconds. Again, I actually donot very know.

Composite pictures displaying three- year old Madeine McCann having a computer-generated age-progression picture of the kid that is absent as she may appear today. Picture: Teri Blythe/AP

“after which I simply legged it out the rear of the apartment and the moment I noticed Gerry and our buddies in the desk, I imply, I simply screamed, you understand, ‘Madeleineis removed! Somebodyis obtained her!’.”

McCann strongly remembered as soon as as “Kate was obviously distraught and it had been type of disbelief. ‘She can not be gone. She cannot possibly. How might she be-gone?’ experienced my mind as we both ran.”

McCann WOn’t quit searching for her Madeleine. Picture: Eight

“She cannot have now been taken. You imagine it generally does not occur… but Kate stated, ‘She Is eliminated, Someoneis obtained her!”

Alternatively Portuguese authorities handled it until 4.30am, through which period Maddie might have been smuggled almost across Italy, as significantly as Port Algeciras like a kid who’d wandered down and didn’t try a manhunt, and into Northern Africa.

Statements are called by McCann about them doing homicide ‘ridiculous’. Picture: Eight

As well as in not shutting the apartment as a crime-scene off, dozens of individuals trampled through the rooms and the yard and ruined essential hints or any recoverable proof along the way.

“There’s no proof that the kid was kidnapped. On the opposite, no touch, there are suggestions the parents were negligent and you will find hints there hid of your body,” stated ex-guide investigator Detective Goncalo Amaral via a translator. ” This point in 2007 of view, that she was useless.”

Ex-examining official Goncalo Amaral called the McCanns whilst the primary suspects in the assumed homicide of McCann. Picture: Eight

Det. Sure of the McCanns’ shame as posting a guide he went as far, after he was removed the situation, that recommended MI5, the English Secret Assistance, assisted hide the physique of Madeleine.

When requested by Sunday Evening writer Rahni Sadler “Did you destroy your child?”, Mr McCann responded: “Number. No. Never.

Outdated Scotland Yard detective Colin Sutton stated anything would be known by a in the Portuguese resort. Picture: Eight

“and also you know, there’s nothing with any logic that might, you know… You would need to start with why? How? When? Who? And there is simply, you know, no response to these issues – thereis nothing to recommend anything. So no – that is an emphatic ‘no’.”

Yard investigator Andy Redwood discovered have now been an event that was isolated.

The Andy Redwood of Yard thinks Maddie McCann continues to be living. Picture: Eight

“About The proof, we genuinely believe that there’s possible that Madeleine is living,” he informed Sunday Evening.

There have been 12 crimes between where Madeleine vanished when into the qualities of British households smashed, 2004 and 2010, within a. Into mattress with or, the burglar possibly got on six of these events sexually assaulted a young kid that was female.

The places where assaults of kids from British households on vacation in Spain, happened over numerous decades. Picture: Eight

“What we are able to observe listed here is man that has got an extremely , , bright that is young, feminine kids, who he’s approaching although within their mattresses while on their vacations,” Det-Insp. Redwood stated.

Before Madeleine vanished, there were many sightings of men loitering in the region: A neighbor documented bogus charity collectors door-banging rentals; A schoolgirl noticed a reasonable-haired man casing the McCannis apartment from numerous instructions; A British holidaymaker additionally reported seeing a dubious man lurking outside their condo; Two males were observed about the balcony from the McCann’s and four hrs before Madeleine vanished, an unknown guy was seen loitering within the stairwell.

The household was managed by family pal Clarence Mitchell on Sunday Evening. Picture: Eight

“There have been numerous offenses within the Algarve there have been tried split- kids that were ins where have been asleep in some cases and they fled from the kidis room,” stated the buddy of the McCann Mitchell.

Within the weeks before Madeleine vanished, there is a four fold increase within the within the quantity of robberies, there were two robberies within the apartment stop, where the McCanns remained.

Forensic specialist David Barclay claims the situation might never be resolved, atleast not with no body. Picture: Eight

” I believe the Colonial police and the Colonial Visitor Board would have now been quite keen to not function burglaries that’s number went on in Praia da Luz and additional cities about the Algarve,” stated Professor Barclay, forensic specialist. “and Also The reality that random paedophiles around getting kids out-of vacation flats going, would likely have been a significant disincentive to households arriving due to their holidays. So that would n’t be want to featured by them.

“I think an explanation why the Met were able to discover more attacks on children than we would been told.”

Madeleine is nanny in the creche of the Sea Team apparently created the declare that the resort was regarded therefore hazardous nannies received rape alarms and informed to not move outside alone.

Outdated Scotland Yard detective Colin Sutton informed Sunday Evening: “There’s a worker, someone who labored within the Sea Village complicated, who, it is experienced, has some information or some knowledge, which may help.

” Madeleine McCann didnot vanish into her own. Somebody got to know what understands the reality.”

Teacher Barclay: “it may be solved if the physique of Madeleine is found and there is evidence either about the body or within the area where the physique is found that may indicate someone.

“But normally, I actually donot think it may actually be solved. There is simply no physical proof whatsoever that we are able to utilize at the moment to even eliminate some of the ideas.”

The parents of Maddie nevertheless proceed to function to maintain their childis memory alive.

“Individuals wish to believe that something similar to this cannot occur to them because the perpetrators have not there can not be fault, you-can’t state, ‘Oh, that is it’,” says McCann.

“You’venot got an experience, you’venot got a title, you’venot got one to blame but, you realize, while you state, itis every guardianis worst headache,” claims Mrs McCann. “I am talking about, it is handled everyone.”

However they state that they’ll never stop looking on her.

“I actually donot think any guardian might and that I do not believe we might actually achieve a place where we believe ‘oh well, we have completed everything today’,” explained Mrs McCann. “You know, as the situation remains because it is, you know, Madeleineis out there and she wants us to locate her.”

from california coast parent http://www.californiacoastparent.com/madeleine-mccanns-parents-deny-killing-or-being-negligent-of-their-daughter-on-sunday-night/

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