Huang Yong Ping

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Huang Yong Ping (born 1954) is a contemporary French visual artist of Chinese origin. Huang's work combines many media and cultural influence, but is particularly strongly influence by the intellectual abstraction of Dada and by Chinese numerology traditions. Founder of the Xiamen Dada group in China in the 1980s, Huang's installations have included unorthodox materials such as live snakes and scorpions. Many of Huang's sculptural works encompass a large scale, some tens of meters in dimension.

Major exhibits

The "House of Oracles" retrospective on Huang's work was shown at the Walker Art Center, from October 16, 2005 through January 15, 2006, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art from March 18, 2006 to February 25, 2007, at the Vancouver Art Gallery from April 5 to September 16, 2007, and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing from March 22 to June 8, 2008. The program to this retrospective describes Huang's work as:

Huang's sculptures and installations—drawing on the legacies of Joseph Beuys, Arte Povera, and John Cage as well as traditional Chinese art and philosophy—routinely juxtapose traditional objects or iconic images with modern references.

Huang's work "Bat Project 2" was planned as a massive outdoor installation at the opening of China's First Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art. Two days before the show opening, on November 16, 2002, foreign ministry officials removed the work, then partially completed. The work, which was recreated in part in Huang's "House of Oracles" retrospective, was a full-scale model of the cockpit section and left wing of an American EP-3 spy plane, filled with taxodermically preserved bats. The plane modeled the one that collided with a Chinese fighter jet in March 2001, killing the Chinese pilot. [cite web | title=Huang Yong Ping work banished in China Artworld - Bat Project 2 removed from Guangzhou Triennial | work=Art in America (Jan 2003) | author=Stephanie Cash and David Ebony | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_1_91/ai_96126407 | accessdate=June 16 | accessyear=2006.]

In 1996 Huang Yong Ping took part in Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, in 1997 Huang participated in "Skulptur.Projekte" in Muenster, Germany with his skulpture "100 Arms of Guan-yin".

During 2008, Huang's work is on display at the Astrup Fearnley museum of modern art in Oslo, Norway.This is his first solo show in Norway.Fact|date=April 2008

For his first UK solo show in The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Huang Yong Ping creates a new installation that explores the imperial history between Britain and China in the 19th century, focusing on the Opium Wars. The exhibition takes its title "Frolic" from the name of a ship built to transport goods between British India, China and Great Britain. The exhibition is on from 25 June-21 September 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=7308 Frolic] is on from 25 June-21 September 2008 at Barbican Art Gallery, The Curve, London

* [http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=1530 House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective] is on exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art during 2006.

*cite web | title=Why am I Afraid of Huang Yong Ping? | author=Philippe Vergne | url=http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2459&title=Articles | work= Walker Art Center (2005) | accessdate=June 16 | accessyear=2006

*cite web | title=Huang Yong Ping at Barbara Gladstone - New York | author=Lilly Wei | work=Art in America (May 2002) | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_90/ai_86194965 | accessdate=June 16 | accessyear=2006

*cite web | title=Live-animal sculpture by Chinese-French artist closed | work=Yahoo News Canada | url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070415/canada/afplifestyle_canada | accessdate=April 15 | accessyear=2007