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ZHOU Tiehai, <Ten Years Ago>, Mixed media on paper, 173x232cm, 1989
[China] ZHOU Tiehai Ten Years Ago
Zhou Tiehai is considered “the most genuine conceptual artist” in China, his rebellious position to art since 1989 has added an audacious exploration on the boundary of contemporary art. Zhou Tiehai’s radical enthusiasm persistently translates an independent artist’s understanding on art, life and the world. His work Ten Years Ago from the 1980s, for example, a work was a collage of graffiti on old newspapers, satirical and frank. From 1994, he showed no qualms that his works of art are completed by his assistants under his guidance, conceptual proposals are challenging goals he had set as a conceptual artist, as well as displaying an attitude towards the art market closely associated with his own interest. He always voiced contentious “tones” to the development of contemporary Chinese art that delineates a parallel chronology vis-à-vis the development of contemporary art. |
