Huang Yong Ping

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Huang Yong Ping (born 1954) is 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.

[edit] 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, and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art from March 18, 2006 to February 25, 2007. The exhibit is on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery from April 5 to September 16, 2007. 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. Bats are a Chinese symbol of longevity, and in this work are meant to further symbolize a future where America is depopulated of its current inhabitants and repopulated with pure Han Chinese, becoming part of the Middle Kingdom. The plane modeled the one that collided with a Chinese fighter jet in March 2001, killing the Chinese pilot.^[1]

Huang Yong Ping took part in 1997 in "Skulptur.Projekte" in Muenster, Germany with his skulpture "100 Arms of Guan-yin".

[edit] References

1. ^ Stephanie Cash and David Ebony. Huang Yong Ping work banished in China Artworld - Bat Project 2 removed from Guangzhou Triennial. Art in America (Jan 2003). Retrieved on June 16, 2006..

[edit] External links

• House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective is on exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art during 2006.

• Philippe Vergne. Why am I Afraid of Huang Yong Ping?. Walker Art Center (2005). Retrieved on June 16, 2006.

• Lilly Wei. Huang Yong Ping at Barbara Gladstone - New York. Art in America (May 2002). Retrieved on June 16, 2006.