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Chinese Painting from No Name to Abstraction: Collection Ralf Laier

Chinese Painting from No Name to Abstraction: Collection Ralf Laier

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ISBN10: 3947127324
ISBN13: 9783947127320
Publisher: Holzwarth Pubn
Published: Jun 7 2022
Pages: 220
Weight: 3.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 9.70 Depth: 12.00
Language: English

On the birth of contemporary art in China

The No Name and the Beijing abstractionists are at the heart of Ralf Laier's collection, presented here for the first time. The No Name group comprised a circle of underground artists--including Zhang Wei, Ma Kelu, Li Shan and Zheng Ziyan--that formed during the Cultural Revolution. They defied the Chinese government's official sponsorship of Socialist Realism, subversively painting landscapes and scenes of everyday life instead. After the group's breakthrough exhibition in 1979, Zhang and Ma soon pivoted toward abstraction alongside a new cohort of artists, such as Feng Guodong, Qin Yufen and Zhu Jinshi, incorporating Chinese ink painting into their minimalist color planes and gestural abstractions.

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