Zhang Hongtu is featured in (De)constructing Ideology: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond exhibition at The Wende Museum in California, from November 13, 2022 to March 12, 2023.

 

 

The Wende Museum is an art museum, a historical archive of the Cold War, and a center for creative community engagement based in Culver City, CA.  The (De)constructing Ideology: The Cultural Revolution and Beyond exhibition examines the visual culture of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, with a focus on ceramics produced in Jingdezhen.  The exhibition also looks at the afterlife of the movement through contemporary art, wherein Chinese artists have appropriated and adapted the iconic images from this period for their own use today.


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ART AND IDEOLOGY: A CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST ZHANG HONGTU

Zhang Hongtu, one of the most important contemporary Chinese artists, weaves elements from Chinese and Western art. Join us for a conversation between the artist and Wende Museum’s assistant curator, Jamie Kwan. Zhang will speak about his experience living through the Cultural Revolution and its effect on his art, especially his iconic “Material Mao” and “Long Live Chairman Mao” series. 

Zhang Hongtu was born and raised in a devoted Chinese Muslim family. Zhang entered the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in Beijing in 1964 and graduated in 1969, but due to unrest during the Cultural Revolution, remained at the school until 1973. In 1980, he went to the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, to study wall paintings, which left a lasting influence on his art practice. He moved to New York in 1982 and received the painting prize from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1991. He has exhibited internationally, and his work is housed in renowned institutions and private collections, such as the National Museum of Art, Beijing, China; Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou, China; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, among many others.

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