Huang Yong Ping
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Huang Yong Ping (born 1954) is a contemporary French visual artist of Chinese origin. Huang's work combines many media and cultural influence, but is particularly strongly influence by the intellectual abstraction of Dada and by Chinese numerology traditions. Founder of the Xiamen Dada group in China in the 1980s, Huang's installations have included unorthodox materials such as live snakes and scorpions. Many of Huang's sculptural works encompass a large scale, some tens of meters in dimension.
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[edit] Major exhibits
The House of Oracles retrospective on Huang's work was shown at the Walker Art Center, from October 16, 2005 through January 15, 2006, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art from March 18, 2006 to February 25, 2007, at the Vancouver Art Gallery from April 5 to September 16, 2007, and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing from March 22 to June 8, 2008. The program to this retrospective describes Huang's work as:
Huang's sculptures and installations—drawing on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera, and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy—routinely juxtapose traditional objects or iconic images with modern references.
In 1996, Huang Yong Ping took part in Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, in 1997 Huang participated in "Skulptur.Projekte" in Muenster, Germany with his skulpture "100 Arms of Guan-yin".
During 2008, Huang's work is on display at the Astrup Fearnley museum of modern art in Oslo, Norway. This is his first solo show in Norway.[citation needed]
For his first UK solo show in The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Huang Yong Ping creates a new installation that explores the imperial history between Britain and China in the 19th century, focusing on the Opium Wars. The exhibition takes its title Frolic from the name of a ship built to transport goods between British India, China and Great Britain. The exhibition is on from 25 June-21 September 2008.
[edit] Controversy
Huang's work Bat Project 2 was planned as a massive outdoor installation at the opening of China's First Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art. Two days before the show opening, on November 16, 2002, foreign ministry officials removed the work, then partially completed. The work, which was recreated in part in Huang's House of Oracles retrospective, was a full-scale model of the cockpit section and left wing of an American EP-3 spy plane, filled with taxodermically preserved bats. The plane modeled the one that collided with a Chinese fighter jet in March 2001, killing the Chinese pilot.[1]
The 2008 exhibition of his piece, Theatre of the World, at the Vancouver Art Gallery met with Animal Rights protests and legal threats due to its reliance on the violent interaction between insects in an enclosed space. The work was part of House of Oracles, his travelling retrospective exhibition.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Stephanie Cash and David Ebony. "Huang Yong Ping work banished in China Artworld - Bat Project 2 removed from Guangzhou Triennial". Art in America (Jan 2003). http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_1_91/ai_96126407. Retrieved June 16, 2006.[dead link].
- ^ "CTV.ca". http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070410/exhibit_bc_070410/20070410?hub=Entertainment. Retrieved May 8, 2009..
[edit] External links
- Gladstone gallery (530 West 21 Street, Chelsea, New York City) is showing a new large-scale installation, shaped as a huge coiled snake skeleton. Viewers can climb from the tail to the head on a bamboo ramp, through the arches of the skeleton. From 1 May until 31 July 2009.
- Frolic is on from 25 June-21 September 2008 at Barbican Art Gallery, The Curve, London
- House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective is on exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art during 2006.
- Philippe Vergne. "Why am I Afraid of Huang Yong Ping?". Walker Art Center (2005). http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2459&title=Articles. Retrieved June 16, 2006.
- Lilly Wei. "Huang Yong Ping at Barbara Gladstone - New York". Art in America (May 2002). http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_90/ai_86194965. Retrieved June 16, 2006.
- "Live-animal sculpture by Chinese-French artist closed". Yahoo News Canada. Archived from the original on April 22, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070422092106/http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070415/canada/afplifestyle_canada. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
- http://www.fundacionnmac.org/english/coleccion.php?id=70 [Huang Yong Ping at the NMAC Foundation]
