Yong Ping
Huang
Yong Ping
Huang
Huang
Chinese, born in 1954
With their striking buzz of sense (and nonsense), installations by Huang Yong Ping boldly combine Chinese and western cultures. Using surprising media such as stuffed bats or snake skeletons, his works constitute real philosophical and political allegories.
A co-founder of the Xiamen Dada group (1985-1989), proclaiming that “zen is Dada, Dada is zen”, Huang Yong Ping was featured in the exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” (Magicians of Earth) at the Centre Pompidou, which launched him onto the international stage. Based in France, he produced a unique and hybrid body of work: “the history of art has to raise doubts. After all, the artist isn’t giving any messages. I mean that it shouldn’t be turned into a joke, a trap, a rhetoric, or a simplistic reading. But if we excavate the meaning of messages too much, we risk falling into nothing”, he explains.
Huang Yong Ping’s work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 exhibition "Mapping the Studio" at the Palazzo Grassi.
A co-founder of the Xiamen Dada group (1985-1989), proclaiming that “zen is Dada, Dada is zen”, Huang Yong Ping was featured in the exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” (Magicians of Earth) at the Centre Pompidou, which launched him onto the international stage. Based in France, he produced a unique and hybrid body of work: “the history of art has to raise doubts. After all, the artist isn’t giving any messages. I mean that it shouldn’t be turned into a joke, a trap, a rhetoric, or a simplistic reading. But if we excavate the meaning of messages too much, we risk falling into nothing”, he explains.
Huang Yong Ping’s work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 exhibition "Mapping the Studio" at the Palazzo Grassi.
