Zhang Huan (ART) - Softcover

"One of the foremost artists in China's new wave, Zhang Huan creates personal and politicised work that encompasses performance art, photography, painting, installation and sculpture. Zhang Huan is a monograph assessing the impact of his explorations of identity, transgression and spirituality. It takes in his early, often extreme, performance art in China and New York - My New York for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, saw him donning a suit sewn from raw beef, imitating the bodybuilders he had seen who tried to adopt an appearance of strength to hide their real weakness and unease - and takes us up to his laboriously created, deeply affected ash paintings and sculptures, created with incense ash collected from Shanghai temples."-Metro On the Contemporary Artists Series "The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about."-Artforum "The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art."-Time Out "A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists."-The Sunday Times "Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment."-The Art Book

"Zhang Huan è uno dei più apprezzati e innovativi artisti della Cina contemporanea. Negli anni 90, grazie a una seri di performance coraggiose e anticonformiste, ha portato l'allora nascente scena artistica cinese alla ribalta sul palcoscenico internazionale. Nelle sue opere più recenti Huan continua il suo viaggio attraverso la tragicità della condizione umana e la spiritualità buddista, passando dalla fotografia alla pittura, fino alla scultura monumentale. Questa monografia rappresenta la prima restrospettiva completa dell'intera carriera dell'artista, dagli inizi sperimentali del famoso "East Village" di Pechino ai successi newyorkesi, fino al riotrno a Shanghai, dove oggi dirige uno studio con più di 40 assistenti."