Lot 861
  • 861

Qiu Zhijie

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 HKD
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Description

  • Qiu Zhijie
  • Copy Orchard Pavilion Preface 1000 Times (set of five)
  • each titled in English, signed in Chinese and English, dated 1990-1995 and numbered 1-5, editions of 2/10, 3/10 and 5/10 on the reverse, framed
  • gelatin silver print and DVD
  • each 25 by 58 cm.; 9¿ by 22¿ in.
each: 65 by 149.8 cm.; 25⅝ by 59 in.

Exhibited

USA, New York, Asia Society Galleries and PS1 Contemporary Art Center; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Seattle,Tacoma Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery; Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo; China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Inside Out - New Chinese Art, 1998-2000, plate 8
Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art, The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation : A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), 2002, pp. 150-151

Literature

Lü Peng, 90's Art China 1990-1999, Hunan Fine Art Publishing House, 2000, p. 279
Wu Hung ed., Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West, New Art Media, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 97
Chang Tsong-Zung, Michel Nuridsany, Made by Chinese, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France, 2001, p. 115
Britta Erickson, On The Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter The West, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, USA, 2003, p. 76
Wu Hung, Art and Exhibition - Wu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Art, Lingnan Fine Art Publishing, 2005, p. 51
Lu Hong, Crossing Boundaries: China Avant-Garde Art 1979-2004, Hebei Fine Art Publishing House, China, 2006, p. 250
Gao Song Yin, Qiu Zhijie, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, China, 2007, pp. 62-63
Richard Vine, New China New Art, Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2008, p. 93
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art From China, Tate Liverpool, U.K., 2007, p. 96
Lü Peng, A History of Art in Twentieth Century China, Peking University Press, Beijing, China, 2009, p. 1024
Performance Art in China: Site and the Body, Artist Publishing Co. Taipei, Taiwan, 2010, p. 105

Condition

These works are generally in good condition. Please note they were not examined under ultraviolet light and out of their frames. The DVD is generally in good condition. There is general wear on the plastic DVD case. There is general wear on the DVD, and foxing on its top side.
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