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Art Chinois | Huang Yong Ping & Shen Yuan
Chinese-born, Paris-based artist HUANG YONG PING's retrospective HOUSE OF ORACLES will open at the Vancouver Art Gallery April 5 - September 16, 2007.
The highly regarded artist is renowed for balancing East and West in his life-size sculptures of elephants and tigers, an airplane fuselage festooned with bats, even a Shanghai bank building re-created with 18 metric tons of sand. The exhibition will feature more than 40 works, as well as "significant early works from the artist's career, reflecting his interest in ideas on chance, creative process and divination."
In addition, Huang Yong Ping's wife, SHEN YUAN, will open her own solo exhibition at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2 West Hastings Street) from April 6 - May 5, 2007. Artist talk on Saturday, April 7, 11am (INFO)
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HUANG YONG PING
Born in Fujian Province, China in 1954, Huang Yong Ping formed the Xiamen Dada group in 1986. One of the most radical of the Chinese avant-garde artists’ groups active at the time, members were inspired by their interest in the work of Marcel Duchamp, Dada and the role of chance in art. The group’s subsequent activity, particularly Huang Yong Ping’s artistic production, are often considered among the first post-modern works in Chinese art and are credited for opening new channels for other Chinese artists, who until that time were predominantly influenced by the conventions of Socialist Realism.
Since his participation in the seminal exhibition Magiciens de la Terre at the Pompidou Centre in 1989, Huang Yong Ping has lived and worked in Paris and exhibited extensively around the world.
* VAG Public Lecture: Melissa Chiu: House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 | 7:00 PM
UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St, Vancouver | Robson Square Theatre
$10 per person, $5 Members, seniors and students.
Join Melissa Chiu, director and curator of Contemporary Asian Art at the Asia Society Museum, New York, to discuss Huang Yong Ping’s work in the context of the growing community of acclaimed Chinese contemporary artists living and working outside of China. (www.vanartgallery.bc.ca).
* Review of HOUSE OF ORACLES from The New York Times: www.nytimes.com
* Photos of his work @ the Institute of Visual Arts www.iniva.org
* Article "Huang Yong Ping work banished in China - Artworld - Bat Project 2 removed from Guangzhou Triennial" in Art in America: here
* HOUSE OF ORACLES coffeebook: www.amazon.com/.
The Dinosaur's Egg by Shen Yuan
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