Hong Hao

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ART . RedBox Studio .cn – Do a Book: Group exhibition and installation at White Space, Beijing

[...] Chang, 张能杰 Rutherford Chang, 陳龍斌 Chen Longbin, Ain Cocke, 郭鸿蔚 Guo Hongwei, 洪浩 Hong Hao, 黄敏  Huang Min, Ravikumar Kashi, 孔国桥 Kong Guoqiao, 梁志和 Leung Chiwo, 刘任Liu Ren, [...]

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Hong Hao was born in Beijing in 1965 and in 1989 he graduated from the printmaking department at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, where he currently resides. Each series of his works are have been widely exhibited since the 1990s and range from his ‘Selected Scripture’ silkscreen prints of maps of social change, to photo collages of scanned collected objects, as well as digital works reinterpreting classical paintings. He often works with found materials, in which he destructs the functional property of the things in favor of deliberately creating a synthesized aesthetic. His work is exhibited internationally in major art institutions and biennales and featured in prominent private and public collections, including, the Museum of Modern Art New York, British Museum, Boston Museum Of Fine Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, National Gallery of Canada, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, the New York Public Library, and the Federal Reserve (Washington DC).

Contemporary Art series (2004)
当 代 艺 术 系 列
Pencil on paper 纸上铅笔
21 x 29.7 cm / 8.2 x 11.7 in each
Unique
Portfolio of 115

Copyright Hong Hao, Courtesy of Hadrien de Monteferrand Gallery

“Contemporary art’ series is a full scale facsimile of pages from the Chinese-language edition of the History of Contemporary ([Western]) Art freehanded in pencil on paper. The artist has fashioned a faithful copy of the book, word for word, keeping faithful to the font and placement of all text. Images are omitted for viewers to focus on the content and/or the painstaking effort of each hand drawn character, hinting at the labor involved to produce a facsimile of a mass-manufactured medium. Consistent with the systematic and repetitive systems of his artistic practice, Hong Hao has not created an art book, rather, his work challenges our use of language and our belief in books.