{"product_id":"64133-zhao-gang","title":"Zhao Gang","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the age of only 18, Zhao Gang, son of Manchurian intellectual, was the youngest member of the legendary Star Group, who also belonged in addition to Huang Rui also Ai Weiwei, an emerging avant -garde group in China, which was so influenced and unsuccessful in 1979 against the control of art the party protested. He later studied in Europe and the United States, accepted American citizenship and is considered one of the special \"representatives of his generation who really understand both East and West and speak Chinese and English as a mother tongue\" (Phil Tinara) and thus also As a passionate painter on subtle, rebellious, sensitive, frenetic, mischievous and absurd, the visual language of the East and West merges into a hybrid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2018 he took part in the overview exhibition \"Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World\" in the Guggenheim Museum, which showed the crème de la Crème of contemporary art. The publication gives an overview of six central exhibitions in recent years and takes a retrospective view of his work and life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZhao Gang, born in Beijing in 1961 as the son of Manchurian intellectual, left China for studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht and at Vassar College, where he, in 1984, graduated as one of the \"Class of 88\". He received his MFA (graduation in art) at Bard College. After over two decades he lived in New York, he returned to Beijing in 2006. Among other things, he took the Yokohama Triennale (2005), Performa, New York (2007) and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;\"\u003e\"Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World\"\u003c\/span\u003e in the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49755246002440,"sku":"9783775754125","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775754125_c997577e-b7e2-4637-bd22-51d005d560ca.jpg?v=1744150622","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/64133-zhao-gang","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}