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PUBLISHER
Blue Kingfisher

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 10 x 11.5 in. / 336 pgs / 315 color.

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Pub Date
No longer our product

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 141   

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ISBN 9789881890658 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $60.00

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Zhong Biao

Text by Zhong Qian.

Zhong Biao (born 1968) seamlessly collages figures and images from both western and eastern culture and history in his realistic, large-scale, self-referential paintings. Michelangelo's "Pieta" is framed by a modern city skyline and Chinese revolutionary soldiers smile and pose beside teenagers wearing iPod headphones.
Zhong Biao

FROM THE BOOK
"The attraction of Zhong Biao’s work lies in his unique perception and observation of image… Temporality has been an integral element of Zhong Biao’s previous works. According to him, 'It actually makes no difference whether it is ancient or modern, western or eastern, our present includes all of our yesterdays…' In fact, Zhong Biao’s experience may not be a universal one, but it may actually more closely resemble the unique existential experience in the process of modernization and urbanization of China.
Urbanization, as the fruit of modernization, produces a particular kind of cultural background and visual experience today: 'It is the misplaced pieces of Paris, New York and London, and sometimes it is a skilful blending of Jerusalem, Borobudur and a Japanese shrine… He fuses together the ancient doorways of Yanjing alongside the seemingly impossible modernity of the Sears Towers (Zhong Ming, 1993).' To me, what Zhong Biao’s work communicates is precisely this feeling of misplacement, contradictory and impossible fusion, and in the direction that lies behind such contradictions lies the 'loss and the confusion' of the soul."

Pi Li, excerpted from Zhong Biao.

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