Art of Change is the first catalogue to trace out a very particular seam of performative Chinese art from the late 1980s to the present, as manifested in the work of eight artists: Liang Shaoji, Wang Jianwei, Xu Zhen/MadeInCompany, Gu Dexin, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Chen Zhen and Yingmei Duan. Often working on a grand scale, they invite the audience to engage with overwhelming, theatrical, yet ephemeral experiences--works which transform over time, like Xu Zhen’s Actions of Consciousness, in which concealed assistants make colorful sculptures, and toss them into the air from inside a sealed white cube. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, this book explores the political, social and cultural conditions shaping contemporary Chinese sculpture.

Art of Change: New Directions from China

Arts & Photography

Rosenthal, Stephanie

Hill, Katie

Lu, Carol

Tinari, Philip

Yao, Pauline

History & Criticism

Hayward Gallery Publishing

<p>In the West, the evolution from Modern to Contemporary art has been in motion for a century; a similar evolution in China, from state-sponsored Realism to the creation of a myriad of forms and movements, began just 25 years ago with the dissolution of The Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s. The eyes of the international art world are now trained on this transformation, which is discussed here in depth by critic and writer Carol Lu, and in interviews with the artists who are making it happen, including Yin Xiuzhen, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Xin Danwen, Mu Chen and Shao Yinong, Zhang Wang, Weng Feng, Li Song Song, Shi Jingsong, Chi Peng, Zhang Hui, Liu Wei, Miao Xiaochung, Shi Guorui, Jin Jiangbo, Liu Jianhua, Leung Mee Ping, Bai Yiluo and Wang Gonxin. This richly illustrated volume surveys recent trends in contemporary Chinese art with a focus on installation art and staged photography. All of the works presented here were made after 2000, and many of them were in fact commissioned by Holland's Groninger Museum for its part in the multi-tiered exploration of Chinese culture being mounted in the Netherlands in 2008.</p>

New World Order: Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China

Van Der Zijpp, Sue-An

nai010 publishers

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