'40+4: Art is not enough. Not enough!' is one of the three curated projects featured in the exhibition 'China China China!!! -Chinese Contemporary Art Beyond the Global Market' held at the Centro diCultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence in 2008.
Proposed by Davide Quadrio, founder of Bizart,Shanghai, '40+4' is an 'anthropological mapping' of the complexreality of today’s artistic scene in Shanghai. Along with documentary filmmakers Lothar Spree and Zhu Xiawen, Davide Quadrio interviewed forty of the city’s major artists, asking a series of pre-determined questions that had been grouped by theme on a deck of cards. These thematic areas included the importance of the artist in Chinese society today, the artist’s relationship with the public, and the influence of the international art market on artistic production. Davide Quadrio’s work proposes a meta-reflection on the social relevance of contemporary art in an extremely complex society undergoing a profound transformation, as is the China of today.
Listed below are the forty artists interviewed by Quadrio. An accompanying DVD (CD.000445) is also available in the library.
Onsite
DING Yi, 丁乙, 
GONG Yan, 龔彥, 
GU Wenda, 谷文達, 
HU Jieming, 胡介鳴, 
HUANG Kui, 黃奎, 
HUANG Yuanqing, 黃淵青, 
JIN Feng, b. 1967, ﹝小﹞金鋒, 
LI Lei, 李磊, 
LI Shan, 李山, 
LI Xiangyang, 李向陽, 
LIANG Yue, 梁玥, 
LIU Dahong, 劉大鴻, 
LIU Jianhua, 劉建華, 
LU Chunsheng, 陸春生, 
LUO Yongjin, 羅永進, 
PU Jie, 浦杰, 
QIU Anxiong, 邱黯雄, 
QIU Deshu, 仇德樹, 
SHEN Fan, 申凡, 
SHI Yong, 施勇, 
SONG Haidong, 宋海冬, 
SONG Tao, 宋濤, 
TANG Maohong, 唐茂宏, 
WANG Nanming, 王南溟, 
WANG Tiande, 王天德, 
WANG Xingwei, 王興偉, 
XIANG Liqing, 向利慶, 
XU Longbao, 徐龍寶, 
XU Zhen, 徐震, 
XUE Song, 薛松, 
YANG Fudong, 楊福東, 
YANG Hui, 楊暉, 
YANG Zhenzhong, 楊振中, 
YU Xiaofu, 俞曉夫, 
YU Youhan, 余友涵, 
ZHANG Da, 張達, 
ZHANG Ding, 張鼎, 
ZHANG Enli, 張恩利, 
ZHANG Haitian, 
ZHANG Peicheng, 張培成, 
ZHOU Tiehai, 周鐵海, 
Chinese - Simplified, 
English
installation,  China
2008
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Background of the Project - Stephen WRIGHT
Art is Not Enough. Not Enough! - Lothar SPREE
Once Again: China! - Davide QUADRIO, 樂大豆
Lost in Understanding: Irrelative to Chinese Contemporary Art - ZHU Xiaowen, 朱曉聞
The Direction of Art in an Era of Collapsing Values - ZHAO Chuan, 趙川
China is So Far Away: Considerations on the Theme of a Difficult Dialogue - Francesca DAL LAGO
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