Artwork
Standard Translation 2008-2010
LED installation
LED scrolling text screen
Standard Translation discretely replaces the existing LED signage of the Fairfax Reading Room with a higher resolution, full colour screen. Multilingual phrases bleed across the screen in disorientating colour. The work extends the artist’s long history of fragmenting and dissolving meaning through a distant mechanical analysis of form and media.
State Library of Queensland location: Level 3
Shanghai Library: Level 1
About the artist
After Zhang Peili graduated from Zheijiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1984 (now teaching in China Academy of Fine Arts), he started to actively engage himself in the creation of contemporary art in the 1980s. He created the first ever video art work in China in the 1990s. The major exhibitions he entered include: 4th Lyon Biennale, 1997; Cities on the Move, Austria, France, 1997, 98; Sydney Biennale, 1998; 3rd Shanghai Biennale, 2000. In 1998, he had a solo exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Lives and works in Hangzhou.
Artist’s C.V.
Born in 1957 in Hangzhou, China
Lives & works in Hangzhou, China
Education
1984 BA obtained from the Oil Painting Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou , China
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Govett–Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.
2008
Tilton Gallery, New York.
A Gust of Wind, BOERS–LI Gallery, Beijing.
Mute, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China.
2007
Best Artist (Tilton Gallery, New York ) 07 Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai Exhibition Centre.
2006
Phrase, Currents/Art & Music, Beijing.
2000
Artist Project Rooms (Art & Public, Switzerland) Arco2000, Madrid.
1998
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.
1999
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1997
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
The Art Center, Centers of Academic Resources Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
1996
Video Forum / Art27’ 96, Art & Public, Basel, Switzerland.
1993
Maison des Cultures du Monde, Galerie du Rond Point, Paris.
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Intramoenia/ Extra Art, Casties of Puglia, Italy.
Bourgeoisified Proletariat, Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai.
Yi Pai – Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing.
Timelapse, National Art Museum of China, Beijing.
Avant-Garde China: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, nagoya，Japan.
A Gift to Marco Polo, A Collateral Event for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice International University, Island of San Servolo, Venice.
Blackboard, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai.
eARTS BEYOND, 2009 Shanghai eArts Festival, Shanghai.
2008
Insomnia, Bizart, Shanghai.
Where Are We?, Beijing Center for the Art, Beijing.
Beijing-Athens: Contemporary Art from China, Technopolis of the City of Athens, Greece.
Homesickness, T Space,Beijing.
Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groninger Museum, Holand.
Avant-Garde China: 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo.
2007
We are your future (Video Box), 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow.
Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria.
China on Ward: The Estella Collection: Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966-2006, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk, Denmark.
85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
Forms of Concepts, 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Arts, Wuhan, China.
2006
European Media Art Festival 2006, Osnabrueck, Germany.
China Power Station Part 1, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Create History: Commemoration of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China.
2005
L’ART DE PRODUIRE L’ART, Le Fresnoy-Studio National, France.
Le invasioni barbariche, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Shaun Gladwell / Tracey Moffatt / Zhang Peili, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
Archaeology of the future, The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, The Nanjing Museum, China.
2004
Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennale 2004，Shanghai Art Museum.
“Light as Fuck!”: Shanghai Assemblage, The National Museum of Art, Norway.
BEYOND BOUNDARIES, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai.
Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography & Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum.
China, Video Generation, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
Dialogues…: Gu Dexin, Wang Gongxin, Zhang Peili, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China.
2003
Z.O.U-Zone of Urgency, La Biennale di Venezia (50a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte), Venice.
Happiness: a survival guide for art and life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
10th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva.
Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Pairs.
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, China.
OPEN SKY, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai.
2002
PAUSE, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea.
MOIST, 4th Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Beijing.
The Third Space in The Fourth World, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai.
2001
TELEVISIONS, Kunst Hall, Wien.
Living in Time, Nationlgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
China Art Now, Singapore Art Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore.
Compound Eyes: Contemporary Video Art from China, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
2000
Open Ends: Art at the MOMA Sine 1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
media-city Seoul 2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea.
Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum, China.
Passe-murailles Nouvelles: scenes de l’art contemporain chinois, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France.
1999
APERTO over ALL, La Biennale di Venezia (48a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte),Venice.
ZEITWENDEN ausblick, Global Art Rheinland 2000, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s –1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York.
“Skin-Deep”: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 1999, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan.
Cities on the Move 4, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.
Cities on the Move 5, Hayward Gallery, London.
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.
1998
Every day, 11th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney.
Zhang Peili and Gu Wenda, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery(U.B.C), Vancouver.
Cities on the Move 2, Cape Mussee d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France.
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.I Contemporary Art Center, New York.
1997
La 4e Biennial d’ Art Contemporaine de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Cities on the Move 1, Group Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Art, Vienna Secession, Austria.
Immutability and Fashion: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midstof Changing Surroundings, Kirin Art Space Harajuku, Tokyo; Kirin Plaza, Osaka; Altium, Fukuoka, Japan.
Uncertain Pleasure, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Another Long March, Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties, Chasse Kazerne, Breda, the Netherlands.
W2.Z2 – Multi medium Slide Show, The Gallery of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
New China, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.
Chinese Photograph and Video Art, Max Protetch, New York.
1996
4 Points de Rencontre, Chine, 1996, Galerie de France, Paris.
OE uvres Choisies, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland.
Image and Phenomena, the Gallery of Zhejiang Academy of fine Arts, Hangzhou, China.
China – Aktuelles aus 15 Ateliers, Perfomances Installationen, Munich, Germany.
1995
Open Your Mouth, Close Your Eyes: Beijing – Berlin Art Communication, The Art Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing.
Configura 2, Dialog Der Kulturen, Galerrie am Fischmarkt, Erfur, Germany.
PIER SHOW 3, Red Hook, New York.
China, Artistic Avant-garde Movements, Centro d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
1994
Out of the Center, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.
Gaze – L’lmpossible Transparence, Parc Floral de Paris, Carre Arts, Paris.
1993
Passaggio a Oriente, La Biennale di Venezia ( 45a Esposizione Internazionale d’Art”, Venice.
China Avant-garde, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin-Kunsthal, Rotterdam-Museum of
Modern Art, Oxford-Kunsthallen Brandt, Klaedefabrik, Odense.
China’s New Art – post-89, City Hall, Hong Kong.
Mao goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Artedomani – Punti di Vista, Installations in the former 18th Century San Matteo hospital,
Incontri Internazionali d’arte, Spoleto, Italy.
Gran Delubro-I’Arte, ex Convento di San Carlo, Erice, Italy.
1992
Gu Dexin, Huang Yangping, Zhang Peili, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris.
Recent Works – Art Show by Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi Since1991, Diplomatic Missions Restaurant, Beijing.
1991
I don’t want play cards with Cezanne and other works, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, USA.
Garage Show, Education Congress Hall, Shanghai.
1989
Documentary Exhibition on Chinese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Gallery, Japan.
China Avant-garde, China National Gallery, Beijing.
1988
Chinese Oil Painting, Shanghai Exhibition Hall.
1987
Beyond the open door, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, U.S.A.
1986
Performances and street installations with the “Pool Society”, Hangzhou, China.
1985
New Space 85, Exhibition hall of the Zhejiang Academy of fine Arts, Hangzhou, China.
Collections
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France.
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
- Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
- Annie Leung Art Foundation, Hong Kong.
- Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation. Switzerland.
- La Fudación Helga de Alvear, Spain.
- Asia Society, New York.
- Sammlung Goetz, Germany.
Publications
2005
- Nine Lives/The Birth of Avant-garde Art in New China” by Karen Smith, Published by SCALO, P358-403.
- “MIRADAS Y CONCEPTOS”/ EN LA COLECCIÓN HELGA DE ALVEAR,
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Archaeology of the future”/ The Second Triennial of Chinese Art, The Nanjing Museum, China.
2004
- Pictures of the exhibition “Techniques of the Visible”/ Shanghai Biennale 2004，Shanghai Art Museum.
- Pictures of the exhibition “Light as Fuck”/ Shanghai Assemblage,The National Museum of Art, Norway.
- Pictures of the exhibition “BEYOND BOUNDARIES”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai.
- “ China Art Now” by Michel Nuridsany, Published by Flammarion. P130-137.
- Pictures of the exhibition “Zooming into Focus”/ Contemporay Chinese Photography & Video from the Haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum.
2003
- “Video Art” by Michael Rush, Published by Thames & Hudson,P142.
- “MODERNITÉS CHINOISES” BY Jean-Marc Decrop/ Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Published by SKIRA.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Alors, la Chine?”, Centre Pompidou, Pairs.
- Pictures of the exhibition “Z.O.U-Zone of Urgency” La Biennale di Venezia (50a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte),Venice.
- Pictures of the exhibition “Happiness: a survival guide for art and life”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- Pictures of the exhibition “The First Guangzhou Triennial”, Guangzhou Museum of Art, China.
2002
- Pictures of the exhibition “ PAUSE” / Gwanju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea.
- Pictures of the exhibition “MOIST” /4th Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Beijing.
2001
- Pictures of the exhibition“TELEVISIONS” Kunst Hall, Wien.
- Pictures of the exhibition “ Living in Time” Nationlgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fÜr Gegenwart, Berlin.
- Pictures of the exhibition “ China Art Now” Singapore Art Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore.
- Pictures of the exhibition “ Compound Eyes”/ Contemporary Video Art from China, Eart Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
2000
- Pictures of the work, “90s Art China” by Lu Peng, Published by Hunan Arts Publishing House, p28, 29, 158,181,281.
-Picture of the work, ARTEiN (Italian art magazine), Ottobre/ November 2000.
- Picture of the work, Flash Art, Ottobre/ November 2000.
- Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “ARCO 2000”, p 475.
- Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “media-city seoul 2000”, p147.
- Picture of the work and article “Zhang Peili” by Mathieu Borysevicz, ART Asia Pacific, (Issue? ) p95.
- Picture of the work, ART Asia Pacific, Issue 27, p56.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Shanghai Biennale 2000”, Shanghai Art Museum, p 259,260,261.
1999
- Pictures of the work and article “Zhang Peili” by Lydia Yee, Catalogue of the exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia-48a Esposizione Internazional d’art, p138,139 .
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “ZEITWENDEN ausblick”- Global Art Rheinland 2000, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, p 294, 295, 296
- Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Skin-Deep”- Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, p12.
- Pictures of the work and article “Zhang Peili-Endless dancing and other works” by Clair Roberts, Catalogue of the exhibition “Beyond the Future” -Third Asia -Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, p44, 45.
- Pictures of the work and article “Zhang Peili” by Jin Yuqing, Catalogue of the exhibition “Fukuoka Triennial”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, P 40,41,42,43.
- “Zhang Peili” by Holland Cotter, The New York Times (Friday, May 14, E37,Art in Review).
1998
- Pictures of the work and article “Zhang Peili” by Hou Hanru, “Cream”- contemporary art in culture, Published by PHAIDON, p440, 441, 442, 443.
- Pictures of the work and article “Zhang Peili” by Huan Du, Catalogue of the exhibition “Every day”- 11th Biennial of Sydney , p 232,233.
- Picture of the work, ART Asia Pacific (Issue 20), p29.
- Picture of the work, Flash Art (international edition, November- December 1998), p58.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Inside Out: New Chinese Art”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Asia Society Gallery, New York, p18, 33,159.
1997
- Pictures of the work and article “Zhang Peili and His Work” by Sheng Tian Zheng, Catalogue of the exhibition “ Zhang Peili ”.
- Pictures of the work and article “Zhang Peili” by Harald Szeemann, Catalogue of the exhibition (La 4e Biennial d’ Art Contemporainl de Lyon France), p130, 131.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Immutability and Fashion”- Chinese Contemporary Art in the Midst of Changing Surroundings, Kirin Art Space, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan, p28,29,40.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Another Long March”- Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties, Fundament Foundation, Breda, the Netherlands, p49,81,116,117,120,121.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Uncertain Pleasure-Chinese Artists in the 1990′s “, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
1996
- Pictures of the work and article “ Zhang Peili” by Juliane Noth; “Mit dem Western Im Krieg?”(In War with the West?)by Zhang Peili, catalogue of the exhibition “China- Aktuelles aus15 Ateliers”, Munich, Germany, p92,93,133,134,135.
1995
- “Zhang Peili – Le Monde est un chaos” by Kim Bo, Technikart, Mai-Juin.
- “A Studio Visit With Zhang Peili” by Joan Lebold Cohen, Asia-Pasific Sculpture News. Volume1 Number 4 Autumn,1995.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition ( Des del Pais del Centre: avantguardes artistiques xineses, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona), p11, 57.
1994
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Out of the Centre”, Pori Art Museum, Finland.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “Gaze, L’lmpossible Transparence”-Carre des Arts, Paris.
1993
- Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition ( La Biennale di Venezia-45a Esposizione Internazional d’arte), p546.
- Pictures of the work and article “ Zhang Peili” by Hans van Dijk, Catalogue of the exhibition (“China Avant-Garde”, Oxford University Press), p210, 211,212, 213,214,215.
- Pictures of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “China’s New Art Post-1989” (Hanart TZ Galley, Hong Kong), p145,146,147.
- “Zhang Peili” by Francesca Dal Lago; “Comme un gaut” by Olivier Kaeppelin, Catalogue of the exhibition (“Zhang Peili Chine”, Galerie du Rond-Point, Paris).
- Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition (“Gran Delubro, L’Arte” Erice, Edizioni Carte Segrete, Italy), p58.
- “Zhang Peili: La China, si proche” by Michel Nuridsany, La Figaro, 19/1/1993, France.
- “Zhang Peili” by Philippe Piguet, Le Monde, 2/15/1993.
- “Zhang Peili- Galerie du Rond Point” by Ami Barak, Art Press, no.178, Mach, France.
- Picture of the work, Flash Art (Italian edition), no.175, May.
- “Zhang Peili at Crousel-Robelin Bama,” by Guy Brett, Art in America, no.11, November.
1992
- Pictures of the work, “The History of China Modern Art” by Lu Peng, Published by Hunan Arts Publishing House,
1991
- “Zhang Peili-The Modern Hurger Artist” by Fred Martin, Fine Art Magazine (U.S.A.) No, 2,1991. November.
1988
- Picture of the work, Catalogue “Chinese Oil Painting 1900-1985, Fine Arts in China”, Published by Jiangsu Arts Publishing House, no35,
1987
- Picture of the work, Catalogue of the exhibition “ Beyond the Open Door” Asia Pacific Art Museum, Pasadena, U.S.A
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标准翻译 Standard Translation 2008-2010
LED装置
“标准翻译”通过电脑多语翻译同一语句，以令人眩目的颜色在屏幕上流动。本作品延续了艺术家长期通过对媒体及其形式的机械化分析, 从意义上进行粉碎和融化。