Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1993
Format
Photograph
Exhibition Event Title
Two Attitudes of Image 93 形象的两次态度93
Date of Exhibition Event
1993
Location of Exhibition Event
Huashan Vocational School of Fine Arts, Shanghai 上海华山美术职业学校
Materials
Metal, television, video camera, and gypsum powder
Description
Two major components constituted this installation: a television displaying a pre-recorded video of a working fan, and white gypsum powder scattering on the iron sheets grounded on floor. The television airing the running fan is fixated upon a black support that much simulates the one on an actual fan. The televised "fan" heads downward to the scattered powder, as if mimicking the work of the subject it represents. But of course, the digital fan proves to be futile at blowing up the powder. The very futility might play into the artist's aim to add a conceptual layer to the installation, to add a artistic/aesthetic purity to the work, the one that detaches from existing rationales of art history, or even life. (Zhu, 九十年代的观念艺术和艺术中的观念性, 2010, Artnow, available on http://www.artnow.com.cn/Discuss/Special/SpecialArticle.aspx?c=764&ArticleID=27611) (Jerry Wu'23).
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