Zhang Hongtu
In collaboration with Asian Studies and ArtsFest. A world premiere installation will be unveiled on April 7, 2006 in the Packer Memorial Chapel. Zhang Hongtu graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, Beijing, in 1969, and moved to New York in 1982. He has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad, and has received many awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship. He creates paintings and sculptural artwork that mingle past and present, east and west, and challenge viewer’s perceptions of history and art history. His paintings reinvent the work of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists as seen through the aesthetic of Chinese masters of centuries past. His sculptural works challenge the hegemony of American pop culture and meld it with Chinese tradition with creativity and humor. Please visit his website at http://www.momao.com/ [Check out Soy Sauce image no. 19 and On-going projects image nos. 1-13]
