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A wry, idiosyncratic humour is evident in Zhang Peili’s early conceptual works. By 1994, disturbed by the frenzied commercialism of the art market and the intensifying global commodification of Chinese art, Zhang abandoned painting altogether.
Zhang Peili’s video works are conceived as installations. He often takes banal events and transforms them into highly stylized meditations on society. Since the early 1990s, Zhang Peili has participated in many important international art exhibitions. His works have been collected by institutions in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.
Zhang Peili, one of the most respected conceptual Chinese artists working primarily in new media art throughout his artistic practice, has been known for his skepticism of the mainstream, be it on the social, political, or aesthetic level. In recent years, Zhang Peili has entitled many of his solo exhibitions using correlative conjunctions.
266 Follower s. Considered the father of video art in China, Zhang Peili has been producing incisive, internationally acclaimed works since the 1980s, building a career that ushered in and encompasses the entire history of Chinese video art. Keenly critical of his …. Discover and purchase Zhang Peili’s artworks, available for sale.
Never exhibited and thought lost, the reemergence of Flying Machine (1994) prompts an exploration of the relation between painting and video in the oeuvre of Zhang Peili. Given Zhang’s significance as a leading conceptual painter in the 1980s, then as a media art pioneer and educator in the 1990s and 2000s, Zhang Peili: From Painting to Video ...
Zhang Peili Archive 張培力檔案. This archive contains over 400 digital images of the artist’s works, as well as sketches and manuscripts on many of his video and interactive installations. Zhang Peili is a pioneer of video and new media art in China. His work 30x30 from 1988 is generally considered to be the first video work in the ...
Considered the first Chinese artist to work in video, Zhang Peili (born 1957) is a pioneering figure in the history of contemporary art. Zhang’s distinctive videos focus on the repetition of actions—breaking a mirror, reading, washing, looking out the window, and dancing—that are familiar yet rendered disorienting through Zhang’s use of perspective, close-ups, and framing.
