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Zhang Huan is one of today’s most acclaimed artists but he will always be known for a 1994 performance piece called 12 sq. metres, in which he sat naked, drenched in fish oil and honey, in a filthy public toilet in Beijing’s East Village artists community. Flies swarmed over the artist for an hour while …

In short, 20 tonnes of incense-ash shipped in from China, pressed and moulded into the form of Buddha which will slowly deteriorate to a p...

Zhang Huan, ‘Skin (20 Self Portraits)’, 1997, silver gelatin print, each 40.4 x 50.7 cm

Zhang Huan, Seeds of Hamburg #12

Parler librement est un acte créatif. En l’absence de corps et d’instrument, la voix est le seul moyen d’exprimer ses idées. La protection de la liberté d’expression est inscrite dans l’ADN des États-Unis et sauvegarde l’exutoire créatif le plus basique et le plus estimé de cette nation.To speak freely is a creative act. Without bodies or instruments, only voices are left to express invention. The protection of free speech, written into the DNA of the United States, enshrines perhaps the…

Fast-forward 20 years later, and China now possesses the second-largest art market after the U.S. . In the October 28, 2013 New York Times, Barboza, Bowley and Cox reported that China’s auction revenues reported revenue of $8.9 billion, and China’s native Poly Auction house has risen to become the third-largest auction house in the world, behind Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

With Family Tree, made less than two years after his move to New York, Zhang offered his face as a surface on which words, names, and stories connected to his cultural heritage are, literally, written

Gallery’s collection of photography that has been amassed over the past 50 years is displayed in new show called The Extended Moment