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Xu Zhen (Chinese 徐震), born in 1977, lives and works in Shanghai.〔(Xu Zhen: Lonely Miracle: Middle East Contemporary Art Exhibition )〕 ==Biography== Xu Zhen is a leading figure among the young generation of Chinese artists. His extensive body of work, which includes photography, installation art and video, entails theatrical humor as well as social critique, neither entirely serious nor obviously ironic, evoking moments of complexity. His projects are informed by performance as well as conceptual art. Executed with a critical intelligence, low-tech subtlety and often in forms of theatric pranks, Xu’s work focuses on human sensitivity and dramatizes the humdrum of urban living.〔http://www.distanz.de/en/books/new-publications/detail/backPID/new-publications/products/xu-zhen.html〕 Xu Zhen’s earlier representative individual works include: the video Rainbow (1998), where a man’s back is beaten until it burns red, and yet the hand doing the beating is abstracted; an intuitive sense of the body and of life is hence clearly seen. This work made him the youngest Chinese artist to have participated in the main thematic exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The video Shouting, created in 1998, where on the crowded streets of Shanghai, Xu Zhen suddenly bursts out screaming—the fright and bewilderment in the crowd’s faces, turned backwards, were fully captured. The installation ShanghART Supermarket (2007) recreates a convenience store on-site: the shelves are crammed full of empty products, while the items, sold at their ordinarily marked prices, only have the external shells of their packaging.〔http://thelongmuseum.org/en/exhibition/overview/436dxA〕 His recent pieces survey art ancient and new while fusing Chinese and Western cultures into monumental installations or into new art forms. European Thousand-Hand Classical Sculpture (2014) assembles 19 different Western classical sculptures of various forms; borrowing from the shape of the Thousand-Hand Guanyin (Bodhisattva) in Buddhist iconography, the work dumbfounds the audience’s visual perception.〔http://thelongmuseum.org/en/exhibition/overview/436dxA〕 Physique of Consciousness (2011) comprises movements derived from dance, gymnastics, spiritual and cultural rituals. The whole series is composed of more than two hundreds steps and moves inspired from a hundred ceremonies, worships and traditions accumulated through the History of Humanity. Xu Zhen’s curatorial experiments and engagement with an alternative art space BizArt (closed in 2010) complements and extends his conceptual practices. Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen has actively organizes various art activities and co-curated together with other artists major exhibitions in Shanghai (Art For Sale, 1999; Fan Mingzhen & Fan Mingzhu, 2002; Dial 62761232-Courier Exhibition, 2004; 38 Solo Exhibitions, 2006; The Real Thing: Contemporary from Art China, Tate Liverpool, 2007; Bourgeoisified Proletariat, 2009; My Communism - Poster Exhibition, 2011, etc.). He is also one of the initiators of the contemporary art forum on internet Art-Ba-Ba in 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Xu Zhen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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