Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wu Hung
• Luchia Meihua Lee
• Kuiyi Shen
• Alexandra Chang
• Michael FitzGerald
• Morgan Perkins
• Lilly Wei
• Jerome Silbergeld
• Julia F. Andrews
• Eugenie Tsai
• Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
• Tom Finkelpearl

Titel

WALL, GATE, HOLE: THREE RECURRENT MOTIFS IN ZHANG HONGTU’S ART

Ist Teil von

• Zhang Hongtu, 2016, p.37

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Two actual walls have played pivotal roles in Zhang’s conceptualization of these works: the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall that divided the East and West during the Cold War. He created one of his first “wall images” in late 1989 (Fig. 1). It is the design for a poster that features a sphere in the middle, whose identity as a globe is suggested by the text written in bold capital letters above and below: “CAN MAN SAVE THIS WORLD FROM POLLUTION BY WALLS?” The image reconfirms the question rather than responding to it: layers of solid bricks