‘12 square meters’, 1994
Chromogenic print
Signed and numbered from the edition of 15.
Literature:
⦁ Richard Vine, New China New Art, Munich, Prestel, 2008, ill. p.82.
⦁ Zhang Huan, Altered States, cat. expo., New York, Asia Society, 2007 – 2008, ill.
⦁ Britta Erickson, On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Stanford.
⦁ Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2004, ill. p.27.
⦁ Zhang Huan: A Pilgrim in Santiago de Compostela, cat. expo., Barcelona, Cotthen Gallery, 2001, ill. p. 195.
⦁ Exposure: Recent Acquisitions, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, O.R.S. Ltd., cat. expo., Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, 2000 – 2001, ill. p. 35.
⦁ Gao Minglu, Inside Out: New Chinese Art, cat. expo., San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – New York, Asia Society Galleries – Long Island City, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998, ill. pl. 28.
‘I prefer to put my body in physical conditions that ordinary people have not experienced. It is only in such conditions that I am able to experience that relationship between the body and the spirit. (…) And the body is the only direct way through which I come to know society and society comes to know me. The body is the proof of identity. The body is language.’
(Zhang Huan: A Pilgrim in Santiago de Compostela, cat. expo., Barcelona, Cotthen Gallery, 2001, p. 32 – 39.)
