artasiapacific nov/dec 2009 p 88
zhang huan: standing on the shoulders of giants
Author; Angie Baecker coeditor of Hans Ulrich Obrist: The China
Interviews (Ram Publications, 2009 and Making History: Wu Hung on
Contemporary Art (Timezone 8, 2009)
Zhang Huan redefined contemporary Chinese art during the 1990s (Beijing East Village early 1990s which was Dashanzhuang - the ramshackle collection of some 65 farmhouses bordering a garbage dump - collaborated with Rong Rong - rejecting the mainstream artist colony at Yuanmingyuan - also Ai Weiwei whose father was poet Ai Qing - Ai also was in the Stars, the first avant-garden art collective in China - at the same time as Zhang's 65KG, Ma Liuming was performing his Fen-Ma Liuming's Lunch.
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