Lot 145
  • 145

ZHANG HUAN (B. 1965) | To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond (Close Up), 1997

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Zhang Huan (b. 1965)
  • To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond (Close Up), 1997
  • Sheet: 47 5/8 by 66 1/2 in. (121 by 168.9 cm.); Framed: 48 by 67 1/2 in. (121.9 by 171.5 cm.)
  • Executed in 1997, this work is number 8 from an edition of 15.
c-print; signed, titled, numbered and dated in Chinese and numbered '8/15' on the reverse

Provenance

Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Max Protetch Gallery, 'Zhang Huan, Works from 1994-1998,' 1999 (another example exhibited)
Bochum, Museum Bochum Kunstsammlung, 'Zhang Huan,' April - June 2003 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Xunda de Galica and Cotterm Gallery eds., 'Zhang Huan - Pilgrimage to Santiago, Santiago de Compostela,' 2001, pp. 162 and 163, another example illustrated in color
M.Chiu, K. Bu, E. Hartney, Z. Huan, Eds., 'Zhang Huan: Altered States,' Milan, 2007, p.37, another example illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is window matted and cornered to the backing board. There is an undulation to the sheet. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

One of the crucial artists from China’s post-1989 avant-garde, Zhang Huan’s visceral performance pieces encourage dialogue between body and landscape.  The present photograph from Huan’s noted 1997 work depicts a group of day labourers standing in a pond in Beijing Park.   In an attempt to literally raise the water level, Huan hoped to confront a Chinese saying about the effect one person can have on his or her environment.  The recording of this piece is currently on display in the exhibition ‘Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan,’ at MoMA PS1 through September 3.