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 u Shanzhuan (1960 Fujian) is one of the most influential artists in the avant-garde movement. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as a long-haired conceptual artist known for his experimental works with language and the use of big character posters, a kind of precursor to the better known works of Gu Wenda and Xu Bing, which also toyed with language and meaning. Wu was part of the red humor group, engaged in performance art, created installations, appeared at the famed no u turn exhibition in 1989, he created a“Big Business” performance that involved selling shrimp; and later left for Europe, where he spent more than a decade in Germany and Iceland before returning to China in 2005. His works are filled with satire, language tricks, symbols and radical games. He often posed nude in his art works, for a while with his former wife, Inga Thorsdottir. His work is filled with absurd imagery and fantastical language. |
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Sell is creation, Acrylic on Canvas, 2006
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News Coin, 2006, Double-sides iron cast, Diameter 53cm, thickness 5cm
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Buy is creation, 1992-2005, Installation
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Red Series, 1986, Installation
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SMS and Its Enemy, sketch A4×50
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Colors come into exploitation
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Making your own Objectionality
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Showing China from its best sides
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Showing the news from its best side(s) Detail
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Solo Exhibitions:
2001
Today No Water, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
Thing's Right(s) ¨C New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA (with Inga Svala Thorsdottir)
1999
Thing's Right(s) ¨C Cuxhaven 1999, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Germany (with Inga Svala Thorsdottir)
Vege-Pleasure, Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong (with Inga Svala Thorsdottir)
1998
Vege-Pleasure, Ingolfsstraeti 8 Gallery, The Reykjavik Art Festival 1998, Iceland (with Inga Svala Thorsdottir)
1996
Please Don't Move, Bahnw?erhaus, Gallery der Stadt, Esslingen, Germany (with Inga Svala Thorsdottir)
1991
Today No Water, 22 Bar, Reykjavik, Iceland |
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