Xu Tan
Xu Tan was born 1957 BirthWuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Lives and works in HomeShanghai and Guangzhou.
Categories: Installation art Multimedia
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In 1994, Giovanne said that avant-garde is a myth of system. Yesterday, Lao Wu said that the biggest problem of contemporary art was that young people were happily jumping around while old people enjoyed spending their money.
Xu Tan was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1957. In the early 1990s he joined the "Big Tail Elephant Group" in Guangzhou with Lin Yinlin, Chen Shaoxiong and Liang Juhui. The aim of this group is to develop critical strategies for negotiating the rapidly changing economic and cultural life in China.
Xu arrived carrying slides and a slide projector. He’s a Big Tail Elephant, one of four in a group known for their aggressive social criticism. An easy-going bear of a man with a ready laugh, he did not have the air of a determined faultfinder…
Xu Tan mag’s offensichtlich gerne heiß. Am liebsten mag er es, wenn den Besucherinnen und Besuchern seiner Ausstellung der Dampf ins Gesicht schlägt und das Wasser aus allen Poren treibt…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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