27.  Art Now

 

Concept: postmodernism

Objects

The global art market:

Wang Guangyi 王廣義 (b. 1956, Harbin).  Great Castigation Series:   Coca-Cola 大批判：可口可乐 1993. Oil on canvas, 6'5” x 6'5” (10-37).

Site-specific art of the 1980s and 1990s:

The Yuanmingyuan  圆明园

•  Star Group at the Yuanmingyuan. 1981. See Wang Keping 王克平.  Silence. 1979.   Wood sculpture. (fig. 10-36)

The Great Wall 长城

•  21st Century Group (Sheng Qi [b. 1965 Anhui] and others).  Concept 21:   Taiji.   1988. Performance on the Great Wall.   Active in Beijing 1986-89.

•  Xu Bing 徐冰 (b. 1955 Chongqing, Sichuan Province).   Ghosts Pounding the Wall. 1990-91. Rubbing on paper. Installation view from exhibition at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

•  Cai Guo-Qiang 蔡国强 (b. 1957 Quanzhou City, Fujian Province). Project for Extraterrestrials No. 10:   Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters .   1993.   Polytechnic Event. (fig. 10-46)

Beijing 北京

• Zhan Wang 展望 (b. 1962 Beijing).   New Map of Beijing, Rockery Remolding Plan. 1997. (fig. 10-10).
• Song Dong.   Leaking.   1995. Mixed-media installation, Beijing.

Summer Palace 颐和园

• Wang Jin 王晋 (b. 1962 Shanxi Province).  A Chinese Dream. Polychloride costume.

  compare with Manchu Palace Guard's Ceremonial Armor. Silk, satin. 1900-1910

Coffins? Spaces of Death

• Zhang Huan 張洹 (b. 1965 Anyang, Henan Province).   Metal Case Performance.   1994.
• Chen Shun-chu 陳順築(b. 1963 Penghu, Taiwan).   Family Parade. 1995-96. Installation with framed photographs (fig. 10-15).

Images of Mao

• Wang Guangyi. Mao Zedong: AO (Triptych) 毛泽东—AO 三联. 1988. Oil on canvas; 150 x 120 cm.
•       compare with Warhol.  Mao. 1974 installation.
• Liu Dahong 劉大鴻 (b. 1962).  Four Seasons: Spring 四季：春 1991. Oil on canvas; 70 x 40 cm. (fig. 10-1)
•             compare with Liu Chunhua. Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan. 1967.
• Liu Wei 劉煒 (b. 1965 Beijing).  New Generation 新生代. 1992. Oil on canvas; 150 x 100 cm.
  • compare with photograph of Mao poster at a commune, Fall, 1978.
• Yu Youhan 余友涵 (b. 1943, Shanghai).  The Waving Mao 招手的毛泽东. 1990. Acrylic on canvas; 145 x 130 cm.
• Li Shan 李山 (b. 1952 Heilongjiang Province). The Rouge Series, No. 31 胭脂系列 31. 1992. Acrylic on canvas; 100 x 200 cm.
  • compare with photographs of Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood icon

Writing and Author(ity)

•  Song Dong 宋冬 (b. 1966 Beijing).   Printing on Water. 1996.   Performance on Lhasa River, Tibet (10-45).

•  Gu Wenda 谷文達 (b. 1955 Shanghai). Pseudo-character Series:  Contemplation of the World. 1984.   Ink on paper. detail. One of three hanging scrolls, each 9 x 6 ft.

•  Qiu Zhijie 邱志傑 (b. 1969 Fujian Province).  Writing the “Orchid Pavilion Preface” One Thousand Times. 1986/1997.   Installation with video documentation and ink-on-paper calligraphy; installation approx. 16 ft 6 in. x 16 ft. 6 in.