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How strange that the beauty of the season is a sign of decay, death, and hibernation? There is profound melancholy in knowing that the changing colors foreshadow the arrival of a long, cold winter.

You are invited to a comprehensive retrospective exhibition for Zhang Hongtu. The opening will be from 3 to 6pm on October 18 at the Queens Museum.
Zhang Hongtu,   Ode to the Sound of Autumn, Mixed-media and oil on Canvas, 2011

[ Ode to the Sound of Autumn: I asked the young servant, "What is this sound? Please go out and look." the boy replied, "The stars and moon are bright, the bright river is in the sky; in the four directions there are no sounds of people, the sounds are from the trees."
I said, "Oh, how sad! This is the sound of autumn. How has it come already?] - Ouyang Xiu(1007-1072) 歐陽修〈秋聲賦〉

This painting is alive; wind blows through the trees, bending their branches and sending leaves dancing across the landscape. Even the sky has caught the restlessness of autumn change. But city buildings creeping between the trees and crowding the skyline make it impossible to perceive autumn's full beauty.

Zhang Hongtu 張宏圖
October 18, 2015 - February 28, 2016
Queens Museum, New York
 
Zhang Hongtu's retrospective exhibition at the Queens Museum includes over 100  works installed in 6 galleries at the museum. In addition, his pieces the Big Red Door as well as the Great Wall with Gates grace the sunken area of the museum. We also invite you to play on the cut-out ping pong table.

There will be a shuttle between the Willets Point/Mets Stop and the Queens Museum from 2:30 to 6:30 pm.


Great Wall With Gates, pigment print, 2015
  • 3:30-4 pm: Play table tennis on Zhang Hongtu's work Ping Pong Mao with Olympian Tahl Liebowitz
  • 4 pm: Zhang Hongtu Gallery Tour with exhibition curator Luchia Meihua Lee
Ping Pong Mao, mixed media installation, 1995

Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World
Edited by Luchia Meihua Lee and Jerome Silbergeld,and  co-published by Duke University Press and Queens Museum, Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World is a 340-page book with 120 color plates; it will accompany Zhang Hongtu's retrospective exhibition. In it, eleven articles by twelve experts analyze Zhang's background, the culture in which he grew up, and his pursuit of freedom in New York. They examine the impact of Western art and the psychological effect of Mao' s phantom on Zhang. The book will encourage readers to consider these hybrid art worlds as places for cultural, psychological, and socio-political exploration and transformation.

contributors: Julia F. Andrews, Alexandra Chang, Tom Finkelpearl, Michael Fitzgerald, Wu Hung, Luchia Meihua Lee, Morgan Perkins, Kui Yi Shen, Jerome Silbergeld, Eugenie Tsai, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Lilly Wei.


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