Huang yong ping biography of michael
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Interview with Huang Yongping (Full Version), 訪問：黃永砅（完整版）
This interview was conducted at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong on 3 March 2008.
Biography:
Huang Yongping (b.1954, Xiamen, Fujian) is a Paris-based artist.
In 1977, Huang entered the Department of Oil Painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art), as one among the first group of students to enroll there since the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, for his thesis project, Huang produced a series of paintings made with industrial paint sprayers.
After graduating, Huang became a secondary school teacher in Xiamen. There he organized a number of experimental art events, including the ‘Five-Person Exhibition’ (1983), the ‘Xiamen Dada Exhibition’ (1986) in which the Huang and his artists colleagues burned their own artwork, and an exhibition of scrap material at the Fujian Provincial Museum (1986). For the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ in 1989, Huang exhibited
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Cai Guo-Qiang, Chen Zhen, Huang Yong Ping: Cosmologists of Chinese Contemporary Art (PhD Dissertation)
This dissertation traces the transnational praxes of contemporary Chinese artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Chen Zhen, and Huang Yong Ping. Initially trained in painting, these three artists reinvent Chinese metaphysics in France, Japan, and the United States through site-specific practice to transgress cultural and linguistic limitations brought on by identity politics characteristic of 1990s art. Rooted in a mid-1980s fascination with metaphysics, the three artists materialized ephemeral, idiosyncratic cosmologies in their respective sites of “spiritual exile” to contest reified identity. While contemporary Chinese art has been well studied in surveys that create taxonomies to map out artist groups and movements, I suggest that closer analyses of these individual cosmologies, projected through particular biographies and iconographies, are necessary to nuance studies of kinesisk contemporary
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Asia Art Archive
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To listen to full presentation click here for part 1 and part 2, courtesy of the International Program at MoMA
To celebrate the co-launch of MoMA’s recent publication Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents and AAA’s archive and website project Materials of the Future: Documenting Chinese Contemporary Art in the 1980s, MoMA and AAA came together to engage visiting speakers in the field, including Huang Rui (Artist); Huang Yongping (Artist); Jane DeBevoise (Chair, AAA); Lin Tianmiao (Artist); Sarah Suzuki (Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, MoMA); and Wu Hung (Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago), to name a few. We have included a selection from the evening’s discussions, in which Jane DeBevoise speaks with Huang Yongping about his work and practice in the 1980s.
Jane DeBevoise (JD): To begin, I’d like to give a short introduction to Huang Yongping, who has joined us here