This book documents Zhan Wang's thematic solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in May 2008. It is a comprehensive collection of works and archival materials related to Zhan Wang's thinking about his celebrated stainless steel Artificial Rock series and other multimedia installations involving stainless steel objects. Included in this catalogue are essays by the exhibition curators and newly commissioned text about the exhibition and its adjoining symposium 'Sculptural Intervention'. This volume also brings together key writings about Zhan Wang's work from the past ten years, an interview and chronicles about his public projects. Artist's CV included.

Alternative title

zhang wang yuan lin wu tuo bang

Access level

Onsite

Location code
MON.ZHW2
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2009

No of pages

334

ISBN / ISSN

Nil

No of copies

1

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Essays about Garden Utopia

Expansive Sculpture - HUANG Du, 黃篤

Making, remaking, expanding - Lisa G. CORRIN

What is a Contemporary Garden Utopia? - ZHU Qingsheng, 朱青生

Objects of Desire and Conception: On the Art and Aesthetic of Zhan Wang's Artificial Rocks - WANG Chiachi Jason, 王嘉驥

World-Making and Mirror-Reflection: Zhan Wang's Art in Time and Space, Between Worry and Wandering - KAO Chienhui, 高千惠

Double Imitation and Nature - WANG Minan, 汪民安

Selected Essays

Contemporary Rocks - Karen SMITH

The Art Experimentation of Zhan Wang - WU Hung, 巫鴻

Material Illusion: Adrift with the Conceptual Sculptor Zhan Wang - Britta ERICKSON, 林似竹

Return to Craftsmanship, Return to Material - GAO Minglu, 高名潞

Is Realism an 'Artificial Mountain'? - YIN Jinan, 尹吉男

A Story about a 'Stone': Zhan Wang's Art Practice - LV Peng, 呂澎

Interviews

A dialogue about Artifice and Reality: Xie Suzhen in conversation with Zhan Wang

Appendix - Chronicles of Four Projects in Public Spaces

Zhan Wang: Garden Utopia
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