Materials of the future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art From 1980-1990

Huang Rui 2007-11-11
He Xiangning Art Museum,
Shenzhen

Conducted in Mandarin

"There is no comparison between the Beijing of those days and the city today… In those days, if you got 30 people together in one room, everyone would have known each other. In this regard there were those like Chen Kaige, who had just gotten into the Film Academy. There were others who wrote poems, classical poems and Red Guard-type poems. Perhaps you’ve never heard of this. There were also poets who wrote in new ways, like Beidao, Mangke, Duoduo, Yanli and people like that. All these people came together very naturally. As long as you were a rebel, you would be able to communicate easily."

Biography:

Huang Rui (b.1952, Beijing) is an artist, curator and writer, based in Beijing.

Huang was one of the principal organizers of the Stars Group and 'Stars' exhibition in 1979. The 'Stars' exhibitions, of which the second took place in 1980 at the National Art Museum of China, were groundbreaking for introducing new artistic forms and subject matter in the post-Mao era. In 1984, Huang moved to Japan and was mostly a painter throughout the 1980s. In the '90s, Huang began to experiment with installation, performance, photography and printmaking.

After returning to Beijing, Huang established his studio and the 798 Space Gallery in the 798 (Dashanzi) Art District in 2002. Since 2004, he has been on the organizing committee of the Dashanzi International Art Festival and an active force in the development of this art zone.

Huang Rui 2007-11-11 He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen

Huang Rui 2007-11-11
He Xiangning Art Museum,
Shenzhen