Lot 811: QIU ZHIJIE | Copy orchard pavilion preface 1000 times (set of 5)

gelatin silver print and DVD

each 65 by 149.8 cm.; 25⅝ by 59 in.

gelatin silver print and DVD

This work is generally in good condition. Please note that they were not examined out of their frames.
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USA, New York, Asia Society Galleries and PS1 Contemporary Art Center; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Seattle,Tacoma Art Museum and the Henry Art Gallery; Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo; China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Inside Out - New Chinese Art, 1998-2000, plate 8
Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art, The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation : A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), 2002, pp. 150-151

Lü Peng, 90's Art China 1990-1999, Hunan Fine Art Publishing House, 2000, p. 279
Wu Hung ed., Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West, New Art Media, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 97
Chang Tsong-Zung, Michel Nuridsany, Made by Chinese, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France, 2001, p. 115
Britta Erickson, On The Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter The West, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, USA, 2003, p. 76
Wu Hung, Art and Exhibition - Wu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Art, Lingnan Fine Art Publishing, 2005, p. 51
Lu Hong, Crossing Boundaries: China Avant-Garde Art 1979-2004, Hebei Fine Art Publishing House, China, 2006, p. 250
Gao Song Yin, Qiu Zhijie, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, China, 2007, pp. 62-63
Richard Vine, New China New Art, Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2008, p. 93
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art From China, Tate Liverpool, U.K., 2007, p. 96
Lü Peng, A History of Art in Twentieth Century China, Peking University Press, Beijing, China, 2009, p. 1024
Performance Art in China: Site and the Body, Artist Publishing Co. Taipei, Taiwan, 2010, p. 105

Private Asian Collection