Exhibitions
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
Huang Yong Ping
The History of Chinese Painting and A Concise History of Modern Painting Washed in a Washing Machine for Two Minutes, 1987 (reconstructed 1993)
Ink on wooden crate, paper pulp, and glass
76.8 x 48.3 x 69.9cm
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2001
Installation view: Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 6, 2017–January 7, 2018
Photo: Kristopher McKay © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2017
Zhang Peili
30 x 30, 1988
Color video, with sound, 32 min., 9 sec.
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Zhao Bandi
Young Zhang, 1992
Oil on canvas, 214 x 140 cm
Private collection
Image courtesy ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
Yu Hong
Deng Xiaoping’s Tour in the South of China, “China Pictorial,” p. 2, no. 6, 1992, and 1992, Twenty-Six Years Old, A Still of the Film “The Days,” 2001, from Witness to Growth, 1999–present
Two parts, left: inkjet print, 68 x 100 cm; right: acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Collection of the artist, Beijing
Song Dong
Stamping the Water, 1996 (detail)
36 chromogenic prints, 61 × 40 cm each
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky
Performance view: Keepers of the Waters: Public Art concerning Water, Lhasa, Tibet, August 18–19, 1996
Photo: courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery
Wang Xingwei
New Beijing, 2001
Oil on canvas, 200 × 300 cm
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, By donation
Photo: courtesy M+, Hong Kong
Cao Fei
RMB City: A Second Life City Planning by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei), 2007
Color video, with sound, 6 min.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,
Purchased with funds contributed by the Young Collectors Council, with additional funds contributed by Shanghai Tang 2008.30
Qiu Zhijie
Map of “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” 2017
Ink on paper, mounted to silk, six panels, 240 x 720 cm overall
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,
Gift of the artist with additional funds contributed by the International Director’s Council T31.2017
Photo: courtesy the artist
Wang Guangyi
Mao Zedong: Red Grid No. 2, 1988
Oil on canvas, 147 x 117 cm
M+, Sigg Collection, Hong Kong
Chen Zhen
Precipitous Parturition, 1999
Rubber bicycle inner tubes, aluminum and plastic toy cars, metal, fragments of bicycles, silicone, and paint, length: approximately 26 m, diameter: approximately 150 cm
Pinault Collection, Paris
Installation view: Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
anuary 7, 2018
Photo: Erika Ede
Cai Guo-Qiang
The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century (Looking toward Manhattan), 1996
Realized in New York City, April 20, 1996; approximately 3 sec., gunpowder (10 g) and cardboard tube
Photo: Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio
Lin Tianmiao
Sewing, 1997
Sewing machine, table, and cotton thread, approximately 98 x 80.8 x 43cm overall; color video projection, with sound, 30 sec.
Take A Step Back Collection
Photo: courtesy the artist
Yang Fudong
An Estranged Paradise, 1997–2002
Black-and-white video, with sound, transferred from 35 mm film, 76 min.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Marian and James H. Cohen in memory of their son Michael Harrison Cohen
Yang Jiechang
Lifelines I , 1999
Ink and acrylic on paper, mounted to canvas
230 x 590 cm
Courtesy the artist
Installation view: Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World ,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 6, 2017–
January 7, 2018. Background: Gu Dexin, 2009-05-02, 2009 (detail)
Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2017
Ai Weiwei
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 (printed 2017)
Three gelatin silver prints, each 148 x 133.2 cm
Exhibition copy
Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio
Artworks © the artists, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2018
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