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Trip to Sichuan Fine Art Institute 四川美术学院
Hu Just back from a trip to Sichuan, and places I’d long wanted to visit but never before had quite the chance. Among them, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SFAI). With Zhong Biao (钟飙) as host, I found...
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launching Ekphrastic Assimilations 同画项目
I’m taking this moment, after a few months reprieve from work on this blog, to announce the launch of the Ekphrastic Assimilations project. This will involve an exhibition, held at the VALA arts...
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The Other Shore, New and Improved (essay)
A new and better version of my Other Shore essay now up at MCLC Many thanks of Kirk Denton for posting. Zhong Biao: “The Other Shore” Sichuan painter Zhong Biao recently opened his third one-man...
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The Other Shore: Zhong Biao at Klein Sun Gallery in New York
“The Other Shore” opening On view now is Zhong Biao’s exhibition “The Other Shore.” In addition, there is an annex featuring recent work collectively titled “Fountain” 泉 of photographer, installation...
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Zhong Biao “Splitting Time”
Here is a 5 minute video of Zhong Biao speaking at the end of the “Splitting Time” (切开时间) exhibition. The exhibition was held at the Zhong Gallery (中画廊) in Beijing. It was a small-scale operation...
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Zhong Biao, new work
Zhong Biao has opened up some new vistas in his work, something which in itself is not surprising as he’s been developing and changing at least since I began following his work in 2005. This time,...
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Zhong Biao at the Margins of the Avant-garde
Last month at the American Comparative Literature Conference in Seattle, on a panel co-organized by Barrett Watten, Jonathan Stalling and Jacob Edmond, I was presenting on Zhong Biao. Here a brief...
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Zhong Biao Website
“Parting” Finally, Zhong Biao has done himself (and us all) the favor of putting his work online. The new website: artbiao.com, contains more or less the entire corpus arranged by year and is just...
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Zhong Biao short introduction
Here’s a recent version of Zhong’s short bio. Paragraph one, of course, not a problem. The second is another story. Any comments on translation welcome. 钟飙简介...
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Zhong Biao Updates
Visiting with Zhong Biao at his studio in Beijing this month, and taking a brief look at the few pieces not yet sent off to Montenegro for his “Blown Over” exhibition. I discovered in Zhong’s work,...
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Zhong Biao Old and New
A Passerby (过客): has long been one of my favorite Zhong Biao images. It is a painting from almost 20 years ago, long before Zhong shifted from oil to acrylic as paint of choice, and longer still before...
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Zhong Biao selections
I thought I’d repost some of my favorite old Zhong Biao works along with newer work marking among other things changes over time. The image above, ”Today” (今天) (acrylic on canvas 400×280...
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my review of Zhong Biao: The Universe of Unreality
My review of Gary G. Xu’s Zong Biao: The Universe of Unreality just published online by Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center
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The Universe of Unreality, some photos
Zhong Biao’s recent book, Zhong Biao: The Universe of Unreality (Charta), is out (co-edited with Xu Gang), and I’ll be reviewing it for MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture). Much to note in...
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Notes on (and pictures from) the ZhongBiao Suzhou Exhibition
Zhong Biao setting up his exhibition at the Suzhou Art Museum In a word, I’d call Zhong’s new exhibition at the Suzhou Art Museum successful, even highly so, and quite contrary to my expectation. Now I...
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Zhong Biao Suzhou exhibition
Not letting any grass grow under his feet, Zhong Biao is moving from a Biennale-related exhibition in Venice to a solo show at the Suzhou Art Museum 苏州美术馆. Above note appears on Sichuan Art Web , and...
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Zhong Biao is in Venice
Recently received the following announcement from Zhong Biao: The curator is Xu Gang 徐钢. He’s a new figure in the Zhong Biao pantheon, near as I can tell, and professor of Chinese literature at...
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night cities– by Yan Li and me
Spring time and therefore doing some spring cleaning of my hard drive (simply so that I can use it). In process I stumbled across this painting by Yan Li: I think the painting captures well the...
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art documentaries : Chimeras in the mix
Another year another China art documentary, focusing on questions of identity, or, as Wang Guangyi asks in Finnish film director Mika Mattila’s Chimera: “what are our roots?” The question itself...
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