House of oracles : a Huang Yong Ping retrospective / edited by Philippe Vergne and Doryun Chong ; with contributions by Fei Dawei, Hou Hanru, Huang Yong Ping ; texts by Huang Yong Ping translated by Yu Hsiao Hwei.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huang, Yong Ping, 1954-

Vergne, Philippe.

Walker Art Center.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Huang, Yong Ping, 1954-.

East and West in art.

Huang, Yong Ping, 1954---Exhibitions.

Huang, Yong Ping.

East and West in art--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

112, 96 pages, 46 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Zhan bu zhe zhi wu

占卜者之屋

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Walker Art Center ; New York : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

This first monograph to look back over Huang Yong Ping's work to date finally brings the full range of his accomplishments to an international audience. As a contemporary artist in China working with diverse traditions and new and ancient media, Huang has built an artistic universe comprised of provocative installations that challenge the viewer to reconsider everything from the idea of art to national identity to recent history. He was once one of the leading figures of the Xiamen Dada movement--a collective of artists working to create a new Chinese cultural identity by bridging trends in Western modernism with Chinese traditions of Zen and Taoism. He continues to confront established definitions of history and aesthetics with sculptures and installations that draw on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy, juxtaposing traditional objects, iconic images and modern references. House of Oracles echoes that blend by bind

Contents:

Two-minute wash cycle : Huang Yong Ping's Chinese period / Fei Dawei

Change is the rule / Hou Honru

Why am I afraid of Huang Yong Ping? / Philippe Vergne

Writings by Huang Yong Ping

1 Notebook 01, 1980-1989

2 Chance, 1985-1987

3 Xiamen Dada and Chan Buddhism, 1986-1988

4 Discourse-art-power, 1985-1999

5 Notes on augury, 1992-2003

Editor's afterword

Huang Yong Ping: a lexicon / Doryun Chong

Plates

Four paintings created according to random instructions

Wheel

The beard was easiest to burn

Ruben's lion bites Ruben's horse

Mona-Vinci

Dust

The history of Chinese painting and the history of modern western art washed in the washing machine for two minutes

Itchy on the front, numb on the back

Kitchen

Large turntable with four wheels

Manuscript goes through the wall

Trousers with firecrackers

Selection from investigative forms

Roulette wheel with six criteria

Drawing away the national art gallery

The house of oracles

Face/brain

The first phone call to Joseph Beuys after his death

Preparatory drawing for large turntable with four wheels

Untitled

108 cards

Theater of the world

bridge theater of the world

Passage

The wise man learns from the spider how to spin a web

The pharmacy

Da Xian

the doomsday

Palaquin

Globe

Sixty-year cycle chariot

Eight-legged hat

Bank of sand, sand of bank

Python

Travel guide for 2000-2042

Bat project

11 June 2002

the nightmare of George V

Two typhoons

Yong Ping

ping pong

Amerigo Vespucci

Long drawing of the bat project

Three wings

The pole of the East.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota Oct. 16, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006 and at the MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts Feb. 19, 2006-Jan. 8, 2007.

Two separately numbered sections, bound back to front.

Includes bibliographical references (108-111).

ISBN:

9780935640823

0935640827

OCLC:

61178201