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Zheng Guogu
Cross Back and Forth Quickly
ShangART / timezone 8 2003
Monograph
Softcover, 384 p
20,2 × 27,8 x 1,7 cm
Texts in Chinese and English
Born in 1970 in Yangjiang, China, Zheng Guogu co-founded in 2002 the the Yangjiang Group artists’ collective. Moving between calligraphy, painting, sculpture, performance, photography, video, and installation, his work is inspired by daily experience, mass media, and local culture, intentionally – and often provocatively – blurring the boundaries between art and life. It is also inflected by his deep knowledge of traditional Chinese art, and Buddhist and Daoist philosophy. An ongoing project involves the transformation of 40,000 square metres of land on the outskirts of Yangjiang, which he has developed as a kind of post-modern literati garden, habitat and exhibition space: Zheng designed and built radically innovative structures and adapted existing buildings, a project which involved him in lengthy negotiations with farmers and local government authorities. His independent work, and his work with the Yangjiang Group, has been exhibited widely within China and internationally, including in Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2017.
Published by ShangART gallery in association with timezone 8, this early monograph features photo clippings of his works together with a myriad of excerpts, quotes and essays written by, and transcripts of phone discussions and interviews with, a number of noted critics and curators, among whom are Li Xianting, Hou Hanru, Zhi Qi, Hans Van Dijk, Karen Smith and Chen Tong.
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