Huang Yong Ping, born in 1954, is a Chinese avant-garde artist of the 1980s, when he founded the Xiamen Dada movement. He then carries out radical actions cultivating a taste for paradox, deconstruction and contestation by the absurd.
Exiled in France after Tiananmen, he participated in the exhibition...
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Huang Yong Ping, born in 1954, is a Chinese avant-garde artist of the 1980s, when he founded the Xiamen Dada movement. He then carries out radical actions cultivating a taste for paradox, deconstruction and contestation by the absurd.
Exiled in France after Tiananmen, he participated in the exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre, at the Centre Pompidou in 1989. Since then, he has been one of the major actors in contemporary art: Venice Biennale, Lille 3000, Ocean Snake in the Loire Estuary, are among his most famous works.
His project for Monumenta is a symbolic landscape of today's economic world. Like the vapours that rise from the valleys in Chinese painting showing the permanent mutation of energies and substances, like the first industrial landscapes of the Impressionists who presented the optical effects of the transformation of the environment by the machine, Huang Yong Ping represents inside the Nave of the Grand Palais, the modification of the world, the metamorphoses of political, and economic powers, the rise of new geographical regions, the decline of old empires and the appearance of new candidates for power and the violence that these ambitions cause.
Strategies, tactics, politics, the art and art of war, the desire for power and wealth, ruins, the birth or rebirth of societies: each of the countries, each of the multinationals that participate in the endless successions of greatness and decadence seek to carry, even for a few moments, an Empire.
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