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1996
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This essay by Brigitte Hausmann, then curator at the Georg Kolbe Museum, details Zhu Jinshi's conceptual work "The Fangzhen Project" where he sent large piles of fangzhen canvas from Berlin to Beijing and then back to Berlin. The project lasted from 1988 to 1990. The artist had cut up three rolls of canvas to create six by three meter sections and used them to perform other actions before sending off the material. Inspired by Joseph Beuys, Zhu Jinshi intended to create a cross-cultural relationship between the West and China. In the last section of the essay, Hausmann jumps to 1996 when Zhu repeats a similar process with rice paper, a common material in his works. (Nicole Wang '26).
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