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ICS & Art History Event: Zhang Hongtu, "Artist's Talk: Zhang Hongtu"

photo of Zhang Hongfu
November 5, 2015
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Wexner Center for the Arts, Film/Video Theater (1871 North High Street)

Institute for Chinese Studies presents, in collaboration with Wexner Center for the Arts:

"Artist's Talk: Zhang Hongtu"

Zhang Hongtu, Artist

Flyer:   Zhang Hongtu flyer

Abstract:
New York–based artist Zhang Hongtu has long used Western art history to comment on his native China’s past and present. His Bird’s Nest in the Style of Cubism (2008), featured in the Wexner Center’s fall exhibition After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists, adopts the style of analytic cubism to critique Beijing’s hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympics (and was seized by Chinese authorities on its way to an Olympic-themed exhibition). A major retrospective of Zhang’s work opens this fall at the Queens Museum of Art.

Ohio State History of Art Professor Julia Andrews, a leading scholar in Chinese contemporary art, joins Zhang for the talk.

Artist's website: http://www.momao.com/

Bird's nest in the style of cubism, 2008. Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist. abstract painting with chinese characters

Painting by Zhang Hongtu on June 4, 2008: Bird's Nest in the Style of Cubism

Sponsor: Wexner Center for the Arts
Co-sponsor: Institute for Chinese Studies

This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.