Wu Shanzhuan

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

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現藏者直接購自藝術家本人

Jean Marc Decrop and Christine Buci-Glucksmann Eds., Modernités Chinoises, France 2003, p. 71, illustrated in colour

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Jean Marc Decrop與 Christine Buci-Glucksmann編著，《Modernités Chinoises》（法國，2003年），頁71，載彩圖

In these illustrated texts which have the appearance of dazibao (political and social placards of the Cultural Revolution), Wu Shanzhuan evokes the world of slogans of the Maoist period, but deals instead with everyday trivial matters, creating an effect both absurdly satirical and humoristic.

Wu Shanzhuan is a key figure of the Chinese conceptual movement of the 1980s. In 1986 he created the seminal installation, Red Humour International, and during his successful career he has developed experimental works that focus on language and employ big character posters. Wu, along with Xu Bin, Gu Wenda and Yang Jiechang, challenged and experimented with Chinese calligraphy as a symbol of power and tradition. His work, as typified by the present work, is filled with satire, language tricks, symbols and radical games.

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《今天下午停水》看似文革時期寫滿政治和社會標語的「大字報」，讓人聯想到昔日標語口號鋪天蓋地的毛澤東時代。不過，吳山專所畫的主題是日常瑣事，營造出一種荒謬諷刺又幽默的效果。

吳山專是 1980 年代中國概念藝術運動的重要人物。 1986 年，他創作了劃時代的裝置作品《國際紅色幽默》，並在碩果纍纍的創作生涯中，創作出以語言和大字書寫的海報為中心的實驗作品。他亦曾聯同徐冰、谷文達和楊詰蒼，挑戰漢字書寫所象徵的權力和傳統，並在作品中將之加以試驗。吳山專的作品，包括是次欣呈的代表作，均充滿諷刺、語言技巧、圖案符號和文字遊戲的特色。