Zheng Xuewu
Artist & Curator
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About Zheng Xuewu's Work
Print Images
The East
The Century Document
About Century Text
Performance in Installation
Tiger Cage
Meditation
In My Eyes
About Xuewu
Not Being to Being
Articles by Zheng Xuewu
Western Stone
Songzhuang
On Meditation
Maverick & Maestro Charm
Flag-Flying
Installation
Painting
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Century Text
Talk in Meditation
We Came from the River
The reason I chose newspaper to do this work is that I think it carries enough time information. All the contemporary politics, economy, military, culture, science and technology things are all here. When today has become the past and these newspapers are already history books. This appeals to me. I think century text is a special book to record history, which is full of countless things that have happened today, no matter if they are big or small, interesting or boring, of the world or about China. But it is special in that you clearly know that there are many things in there, but you can't read them. Because every roll is tied with the seal, the content at this time is only a presence. It makes you feel a kind of paradox from words and non-words, from reading and not reading.
Century text Performance Part is named as Century text - Dialogue. It is dialogue between today and history, modern and tradition, east and west. I want to give these newspapers material made device works life, let it own today and even futures value of existence.
Centruy Text
For generations, Chinese people have respected Confucius and Mencius thoughts, and The Middle Way. It let Chinese lack of creative thinking, used to qualitative way of doing things, useing hands more than useing brain. Folk arts inheritage has high requirements to handicraft. Craftsmen must have the perseverance of the iron pestle grinding into a mortar. With today's "blundering heart, who can calmly research folk art? And who will make thinking and creation suited for this time to traditional culture with nothing to desire and pursue?
We are from River
We are Tree
We are grass
We are fish
We are living
The River never stopped
Life never stopped
What i am doing on these works is to take the treasures of the troditional culture in my left hand and the masters of yesterday in my right hand and to clasp them together. I then want to blend them to create the Zheng Xuewu of today.
The sense of intimacy and affection for the concrete that is achieved by Zheng Xuewus work is not its only dimension. These compositions can be interpreted as a unity, each with its theme and purpose. Perhaps Zheng Xuewu has a favorite interpretation for each picture; so do I. So, I am sure, does every viewer who pauses before one of his pictures, first arrested by the color and the large shapes, then becoming fascinated by the tiny elements from which the picture is made. But to interpret these works as messages, with meanings and structures, is once again to abandon print, that in-between world of signifying, repeating, combining, and re-combining that Zheng Xuewus work reveals as so rich, so diverse, and so very lively. It is here that the greatest pleasure of this work, and of the lives full of print that we all lead, can be found.
Identity
Samsara
Dialogue 1
Dialogue 2
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First of September | Nine person show, WithSpace, 798 Art Area, Beijing
No Borders Henan | Art Museum, zhengZhou, Henan Province
The Power of Practice | The 4th National Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition, Xian Art Museum, Xian, Shanxi Province
Time-Fable | 798 Space, 798 Art Area, Beijing
Fuse | China Central Plaza, Beijing
No Borders | Zibo International Art Exhibition, Zibo College, Shandong Province
Century | Korea Culture Center, Beijing
Paper-Connection | China Ireland Paper Art Exhibition, North Europe Art Center
Bread is Not Enough | BSC gallery, Beijing
Converge | Installations from China, Australia, and Ireland, Guanyintang Art Salon, Beijing
Congregate-Songzhuang | BSC Gallery, Beijing
1st Zibo International Art Exhibition | Zibo Museum, Shandong
Pathway-State-Whisht-Cleansing | BSC Gallery, Beijing
Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Engraving Masterpieces | Beijing
Our Books, Our Lives | North Europe Center, Beijing
Chinese Contemporary Engravings | Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
The Power of Practice | 800 Museum, Shanghai
Chinese Art in My Eye | WithSpace Gallery, Beijing
Dangcing with the Dragon | Turchin Center, U.S.A
2nd China Printmaking Document | Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
The Drifting | China-Space, Beijing
Korea & China Contemporary Art Exhibition | 798 Space, Beijing
The Power of Practice | China Printmaking Document, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
China-Korea Modern Art Exhibition | Huantie Art Area, Beijing
Beyond the Rainbow | Asia Modern Art Exhibition, Sungsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
Eating | Contemporary Art Group Performance, BIAC, Beijing
QingZhou International Art Exhibition | Qing Zhou Museum
Studio Open | BIAC,Beijing
Noahs Ark | Tsinghua University, Beijing
Seven Pairs of Hands | Picked Art Center, Beijing
Talk | Songshan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition | Gwangju Art Meseum, Korea
Art Museum of the Capital Normal University | Beijing
Art Scene China Warehouse | Shanghai
Space on the Move | Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Go Straight | Nine person show, Beijing International Art Center
Space of Freedom | Six person show, Florence Gallery, Beijing
Exhibition of Five | Peoples University of China, Beijing
Visiting/Assistant Professor
University of Giqihar, Heilongjiang Province
Zibo College, Shandong Province
Appalachian State University, NC, USA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Harbin Normal University, Arts College
Harbin College of Art Teachers
Lectures
Columbia University Neiman Center, NYC, USA
Warren Wilson College, NC, USA
Emory University, GA, USA
Turchin Center for Visual Arts, NC, USA
Guilford College, NC, USA
