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...It is being billed as the great unseen exhibition, showcasing a generation of artists — including Geng Jianyi, Yang Fudong, Liu Wei, Hu Jieming, Xu Zhen, Liang Yue, Chen Xiaoyun, Yang Zhenzhong and Xiang...
...For “12 Square Meters”, he soused his body in fish oil and honey, sat in a public toilet, and endured throngs of intoxicated flies....
...The mesmerising and defiantly uncommercial allure of a light projection by Geng Jianyi viewed through holes cut into a booth testified to his words....
...He began acquiring art on his arrival in China in 1979, but stresses that he adapted his approach to acquisitions in the 1990s....
...As FAW chairman, he oversaw the acquisitions of Haima Auto in 1998 and Tianjin Auto in 2002....
...They include Qiu He, the deputy party secretary of Yunnan Province, who is linked to Mr Hu’s power base in the Communist Youth League, and Xu Jianyi, head of state-owned China FAW Group, where Mr Jiang worked...
...He studied at the fine arts department of Hebei Normal University, and was inspired by the works of another Chinese painter, Geng Jianyi, whose faces are more grimacing than laughing, representing a deep...
...He set out to create what he calls a “document” of contemporary Chinese art, one that did not then exist in China, or indeed anywhere else....
...That, he reckons, is progress....
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