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476:" In 2000 I started the series AK-47. At the time I thought I was expressing the violence to which people are subjected to in society because of inequality. The Slogan series is a continuation of AK-47, and it is also the result of my observation of our own surrounding society. Our era is full of dramatic events and fast changes, in the main avenues and narrow alleys slogans are pervasive and ever changing. These slogans are standard sentences taken from government documents that have come to dominate our public space. Their aim is to educate us, tell us how we must behave just like a parent talking to an elementary school child – in the same way the parents of the People lecture their immature children. " 416:" Urban expansion and its ambiguous spread fill us with excitement, unease and disquiet. Each and every corner of the city is a chaotic mess. Mounds of garbage are piling up and people eat, shit and sleep amongst the refuse. Children look for toys in the debris. River water runs ink black and stinks like hell, while plastic bags hang from tree branches and play catch on the grass, nodding and waving in the breeze like severed heads and hands. Men in pressing business suits enter the main gates of fancy hotels, while rivers of filth run from the hotels’ rear. " 372:" Formally, I have been deeply influenced by Wu Guanzhong. I was shocked the first time I saw Wu’s paintings, he used red to paint green trees. We were all shocked and thought he was colorblind. We told him the tree was green and he replied: “The tree is green, but can’t we paint it with other colors? You should paint with the color that expresses your inner most feelings.” It was then that I realized that the portrayal of natural setting landscapes and objects didn’t have to correspond to their actual form but could refer to my inner emotions. " 141: 25: 407:. After returning to China in 1995, he witnessed the demolition of old alleys and neighborhoods, the forced relocation of the inhabitants and the propaganda to convince the citizens that “modernization” is good and necessary. He then started to wander the streets by night, on his bicycle with a spray can, leaving on the walls condemned to demolition a head profile and his signature AK-47 and 18K. 455:
from portrait photos Zhang Dali found in a pile of abandoned photo studio archives, sold in bulk at the flea market. The acronym is not painted on the faces, but it is used to portray the faces themselves: violence is not “on” people, it is the very material with which people are made of, not a washable coating, but integral part and connecting tissue of their existence.
471:, the capital was invaded by gigantic banners and boards of government propaganda slogans. Even though this feature has always been a part of Chinese urban and rural landscapes, so much so to become invisible to the passer-by eyes, in 2008 their presence was so ubiquitous to make Zhang Dali ponder on their meaning and on the subtle message implanted in people's head. 535:" Shadows are very intriguing and differ greatly in form. Besides shadows’ ability to prove existence of material objects, shadows also carry their own intrinsic value and existence, not only as a reproduction or copy of the world of material things, but also as a type of “anti-matter” marking the space material objects occupy under the sun. 562:) created in 2015 and 2016, represent a new stage of research and elaboration on the relevance of the human body as representative of a society and its dominant ideology. Bodies of common people, migrant laborers are shown to the public as classical statues made of marble, material associated to deities and heroes of the past. 565:
In this new form, they transmigrate from impermanence to permanence, at the same time detaching from their daily reality of ignorance and suffering. Zhang Dali captures the spark of eternity presented in the life of each and every person. It is not the appanage granted to royals and nobles, Sublimity
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in 1842 and quickly abandoned in favor of other more sophisticated photographic techniques. The characteristics of the cyanotype attract Zhang Dali for two reasons: it can not be altered or manipulated; it captures the image in a specific instant and it cannot be reproduced. The object and its shadow
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From the year 2000, he started a series of portraits emerging from the chromatic contrast of "AK-47"s' shades. The paintings are acrylic on vinyl, a material widely used for advertisement boards, a feature becoming an integral part of the Beijing’s urban landscape in those years. The faces are copied
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This series of oil on paper paintings are representative of Zhang Dali's last university years (1986–1987) and of his search for contamination between eastern and western art. Zhang Dali has already decided that he wants to be a “contemporary artist” and not a Chinese traditional painting artist. The
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was created in a seven-year span, from 2004 to 2011. Zhang Dali poses questions about the influence of new technologies on the visual mass culture and as a form of exercised power. The research on the history of image manipulation takes him to collecting thousands of illustrated volumes, magazines,
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This work consists of the archive created by Zhang Dali after seven years of researching and cataloging. It is made of 133 panels, each comparing images as published with different manipulations and/or their original negative. Image manipulation was born with photography itself. All over the world
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Zhang Dali's research on human bodies as a collective depository of an era continues in this series of sculptures, cast in fiberglass from migrant workers. From 2004 to 2010, he has reproduced the bodies of farmers coming into the city in search of work; they became the document of both a specific
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The material world shapes and controls our nervous system, and can make us feel agitated and troubled. When we keep calm and quiet we realize that the world under our control is only a small part of the universe, certainly not the whole. The shadows I document exist only for a very short time but
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In a project that will last a decade, Zhang Dali not only establishes a dialogue with the city's inhabitants, he also asks questions about the legitimacy of modernization, about the costs for the historical and cultural heritage, and the price of physical and psychological suffering. His graffiti
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These paintings in red, black and white are executed with oil colors, typical of western art, but on vertical paper with the dimensions and shapes, typical of Chinese traditional scroll painting. The subject is figurative, precise elements can be recognized, but at the same time not realistic. It
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constitute an intrinsically bound couple and only in a precise instant. Zhang Dali has experimented with large size cyanotypes covering subjects such as natural landscapes, vegetations, and human bodies. This is one of the techniques the artist is still expanding and combining other materials.
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demands us to reflect on the present condition of a People who had lost the values of the wise men and heroes of the past, a People reduced to a sub-human state, cogs in a machine on which they have no control on, lacking ideals and without a purpose that goes beyond daily subsistence.
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seems like the representation of a dream, of a spiritual aspiration, of harmony between the natural and human worlds. The well-defined lines and the choice of colors refer to graphic art, which was also an essential part of Zhang's curriculum at the academy.
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in 1947. All over the world, the name AK-47 has become a symbol of wars, insurrections and gang criminality. Zhang Dali started to use this tag during the nineties in his graffiti as a synonym of the violence permeating the fast urbanization process.
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education he received at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Beijing includes the study of European and Chinese classic art, and the study of the most influential movements of western art in the twentieth century, from Bauhaus to Pop Art.
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were the spark which became a great conflagration in the public debate on the significance, modes and finality of urban modernization. With his graffiti, Zhang Dali turned into a public intellectual renown in China and all over the world.
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throughout the 1990s. His works cross a multitude of techniques including painting, sculpture, photography, and installations. In the four decades of his career his works were shown in more than 300 exhibitions all over the world.
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period in the history of urbanization and a migration of unimaginable proportion. From the first exhibitions, the sculptures were hung upside down, to express the absence of control these people have on their lives. The name
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as a freelance artist (1987–1989) and started to show his works in independent exhibitions. He spent the years 1990–1995 in Italy, where he came into contact with graffiti art. He was the only graffiti artist in
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images are manipulated, in China such practices have been particularly pervasive since the foundation of the People's Republic and is exposed in this work in its political and aesthetical significance.
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and newspapers from the years 1950s to 1980s. He had access to the archives of some of the most known state publication houses, where he compared negative films and images published in those years.
221: 395:, graffiti art presented itself as a means of dialogue between the artist and the people moving in the urban landscape. His first graffiti were painted in Bologna, and other European cities: 248:) characters painted by the city authorities to indicate that a building is scheduled for demolition. The appearance of these images became the subject of media debate in Beijing in 1998. 1112:“RE-INK: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Wash Painting 2000 – 2012”, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, Hubei, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 300: 264: 242:
From 1995 to 1998 he spray-painted over 2000 giant profiles of his own bald head on buildings throughout Beijing, placing the images alongside chāi (
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through the photogram technique I capture them, so they can exist for a much longer time, in front of our eyes, and under our gaze. "
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In more recent years, his works were shown in large retrospective exhibitions such as: "From Reality to Extreme Reality" at the
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Maurizio Marinelli, 'Walls of Dialogue in the Chinese Space', China Information, No. 18, 2004, pp. 429–462. Available at:
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This is a series of portraits emerging from the repetition and color shade contrast of Chinese characters, similar to the "
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Maurizio Marinelli, 'Civilising the Citizens: Political Slogans and the Right to the City', Portal, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2012,
1035:“Sudden Change of Idea – Chinese and German Conceptual Art Comparative Research Exhibition”, United Museum, Wuhan, China 89: 1785: 1435:“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC 1417:“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 61: 1847: 1693: 1670: 108: 1411:“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, International Center of Photography, New York, NY 1302:“Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers”, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME 68: 1320:“The Avant-Garde in the ‘80s and ‘90s of the Last Century in China”, Groningen Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands 1190: 667:“From Reality to Extreme Reality - Zhang Dali Retrospective Research Exhibition”, United Art Museum, Wuhan, China 446:, from whose name comes the abbreviation of AK (Avtomat Kalashnikova) and was produced for the first time in the 1752: 1432:“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1183:“Scenes from Within: Contemporary Art from China", Blackbridge Hall Gallery, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA 1174:"Guanxi: Contemporary Chinese Art”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 268: 46: 1239:“From New York to Beijing: Graffiti - Blogging in the Street - Blade and Zhang Dali”, C-Space, Beijing, China 251:
He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York,
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Zhang Dali's encounter with graffiti first occurred in Europe. From 1989 to 1995, while he was living in
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Zhang Dali Demolition & Dialogue published by Courtyard Gallery, Beijing. Editor: Meg Maggio, 1999
1224:“Zhang Dali: A Second History”, 41st Edition of Les Recontres d’Arles,” Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France 1171:“Start from the Horizon: Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Since 1978”, Sishang Art Museum, Beijing, China 1121:"Aura and Post Aura", The First Beijing Photography Biennale, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China 1062:“Chinese photography - twentieth century and beyond” Three shadows photography art centreBeijingChina 57: 1542:“Unveiled Reality-Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Chulalongkom University Museum, Bangkok, Thailand 1215:“The Original Copy: Photography of a Sculpture, 1839 to Today”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1271: 1264:"Calligraffiti: ‘Writing’ in Contemporary Chinese and Chicano Art", Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA 1155:“Faking It: Manipulating Photography Before Photoshop”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1087:“Chinese Contemporary Photography”, ArtScience Museum &Singapore Photography Festival, Singapore 985:“Working on History. Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution”, State Museum, Berlin, Germany 642:“Permanence and Impermanence – New Works by Zhang Dali”, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China 1056:“Grain to pixel - A story of photography in China”, Shanghai center of photography, Shanghai, China 723: 1401:“Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition”, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands 1109:“Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art”, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT 1084:“West Says East Says – Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition”, United Museum, Wuhan, China 35: 1426:“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1342:“All of our Tomorrows: The Culture of Camouflage”, Kunstraum der UniversitĂ€t, LĂŒnenburg, Germany 424: 322: 1842: 1370:“Radar: Selections from the Collection of Kent and Vicki Logan”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1124:"World's Shadows", Photo Phnom Penh 2013, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 963:“The Fuck Off Generation: Chinese Art In The Post-Mao Era”, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, USA 1180:“Speech Matters”, The 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 889:“Wash Painting Exhibition by Zhang Dali”, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China 598: 342: 657:“A Second History”, MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1837: 1414:“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Asia Society, New York, NY 794:“A Second History”, Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 468: 260: 1780: 1763:
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8: 443: 1245:“Reshaping History - Chinart from 2000-2009”, National Conference Center, Beijing, China 82: 1289:“Transforming Traditions”, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO 1202:“The Evolving Art”, Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 1103:“Voice of the Unseen: Chinese Independent Art 1797/Today”, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy 1738: 1115:"Individual Growth – Momentum of Contemporary Art", Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China 755:“Pervasion: Works by Zhang Dali (1995-2008)”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 716: 661: 608: 1689: 1666: 1218:“Exhibition Exhibition”, Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy 1815: 1492:“Contemporary Chinese Photography”, Finland Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland 1158:“The Unseen”, The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 935:“Bubble-Profile of Time”, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China 1730: 1199:“Self Camera”, Changwon Asia Art Festival, Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon, South Korea 982:“Street generations(s) 40 years of urban art”, La Condition Publique, Lille, France 932:
Shenzhen International Beach Sculpture Festival, Golden Sand Beach, Shenzhen, China
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and PĂ©kin Fine Arts in Beijing. He is represented by PĂ©kin Fine Arts in Beijing,
276: 187: 182: 1508:“Artistes Contemporains Chinois”, Musee des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France 1332:“Re-Imagining Asia: Asian Coordinates”, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany 1292:“From Style Writing to Art – Street Art Group Show”, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China 1212:“Is the World Real?”, 6th Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China 1149:"OMEN 2012 – Chinese New Art," Shanghai Art Museum (Meishuguan), Shanghai, China 1118:“Incarnations”, Institut Confucius des Pays de la Loire d’Angers, Angers, France 1041:“ART PARK”, Art Beijing, Agricultural Exhibition Center of China, Beijing, China 966:“Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan 1758: 1632: 1127:“Spectacle Reconstruction – Chinese Contemporary Art”, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary 926:“A Fairy Tale in Red Times”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 1810: 972:“Herbstsalon ’18 – BrĂŒcken Fremder FlĂŒsse”, MDR TV Station, Magdeburg, Germany 525:
is a type of photogram, a photo produced without a camera. It was invented by
1831: 1536:“HSIN: a visible spirit”, Cypress College & BC Space Gallery, Cypress, CA 1457:“Festival Internazionale di Roma”, L'Officina-Arte del Borghetto, Rome, Italy 1305:“Five Years of Duolun”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 1227:“A Decade-Long Exposure”, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China 1090:“Photography in the Post Media Era”, Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China 1038:“The Persistence of Images”, Red Brick Factory Art District, Guangzhou, China 526: 304: 256: 1483:“Courtyard Gallery August Group Show”, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 1261:"Quadrilogy: Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity", DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany 995:“Audacious – Contemporary Artists Speak Out”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA 1546: 1065:“A new dynasty - created in China”, Denmark Aros Art Museum, ARhus, Denmark 654:“Zhang Dali – World’s Shadows”, Ludwisburg Kunstverein, Ludwisburg, Germany 447: 420:
Zhang Dali, Demolition – Continuing Dialogue, February 1998 in Zhang Dali,
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Golden Panda Photography Awards, Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
1311:“Logan Collection”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1270:“Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers”, 742:“Zhang Dali: A Second History”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 1769:
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941:“Graffiti-The Prose of Freedom”, China Check Art Museum, Beijing, China 758:“Il Sogno Proibito della Nuova Cina”, Palazzo Inghilterra, Turin, Italy 745:“Zhang Dali Solo Show”, Magda Danysz / Bund 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China 604:"AK-47 Di Zhang Dali", Art City, S. Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy 1559:“Chinese Artists Group Show”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 1511:“Thought Brand Meat Mincer”, Dongsi 8 Tiao Performance, Beijing, China 685:“Zhang Dali-permanent exhibition”, Automne Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium 140: 1786:
Zhang Dali - Magda Danysz Gallery & 18 Gallery - Paris - Shanghai
904:“The Logic of Painting”, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China 879:“Zhang Dali: Pitture a Inchiostro”, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy 522: 400: 338: 1081:“Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, China 695:“Second History”, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Shenyang, China 24: 1588:“La Formazione della Terra”, Goethe Institute Gallery, Turin, Italy 1467:“New Photography from China”, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 1348:“China Now”, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 810:“New Works by Zhang Dali”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 1489:“Contemporary Chinese Photography”, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland 1470:
1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
1130:“Spectacle Reconstruction”, Budapest Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary 1681: 1611:“Collettiva Di Artisti Cinesi”, Il Sigillo Gallery, Padova, Italy 1044:“Photomonth”, Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japonskiej, Krakow, Poland 1032:“Community Implant Plan”, Chengdu Jinjiang Museum, Chengdu, China 614:"Beside City! Be Cityside!", Hefei Financial Harbor, Hefei, China 392: 346: 296: 230: 214: 169: 1562:“Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Lehman College, New York, NY 1539:“The World Is Yours!”, Design Museum Performance, Beijing, China 1286:“Collision”, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China 859:“Dialogue and Demolition”, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 1360:“Past Forward”, Oriental Vista Art Collections, Shanghai, China 1326:“Exquisite Corpse: China Surreal”, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China 1133:“Chinese Photography”, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium 1100:“FUCK OFF 2”, The Groeniger Museum, Groeningen, The Netherlands 1022:“Chinascape: From Rural to Urban”, Spazioborgogno, Milan, Italy 781:“Chinese Offspring”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY 404: 396: 272: 206: 1713: 1398:“The Game of Realism”, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China 1376:“Fever Variations”, 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea 1317:“Zhang Dali and Shen Shaomin”, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY 1177:“New Photography 2011”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 938:
The 8th Dali International Photography Exposition, Dali, China
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exists in everyone and transforms the bodies into monuments.
330: 312: 288: 224:, where he graduated in 1987. After his studies, he moved to 210: 1106:“The Nature of Things”, Gallery Magda Danysz Shanghai, China 1053:“The Civil Power”, Beijing Minsheng Art MuseumBeijingChina 1345:“Unexpected: Out of Control”, Ku Art Center, Beijing, China 1283:“Images from History”, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 869:“Rivoluzione e Violenza”, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy 705:“Zhang Dali Retrospective”, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY 357: 280: 1059:“Paradise Bitch” , White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia 998:“Utopias Heterotopias”, Wuzhen Silk Factory, Wuzhen, China 944:“180 Years of Photography in China”, Moca, Yinchuan, China 797:“Zhang Dali: A Second History”, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL 1329:“Go China!”, Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands 1323:“Guang Hua Road”, Michael Schultz Gallery, Beijing, China 1196:“Relationship”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China 1010:“Busan Biennale”, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea 957:
Nord Art 2018, Kunswerk Carlshuerre, Buedelsdorf, Germany
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NordArt 2019, Kunstwerk CarlshĂŒtte, BĂŒdelsdorf, Germany
771:“The Road to Freedom”, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China 1739:
Archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art, Cornell University
1221:“Four Dimensions”, Hong Kong Photo Festival, Hong Kong 1013:“Vile Bodies”, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia 910:“Apnea”, NL Museum (online exhibition), Beijing, China 807:“Sublimation”, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China 1621:“Pittura su Carta”, Galleria Comunale, Ferrara, Italy 1451:“The Logan Collection”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1280:“The Very Condition”, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China 907:“Four-Dimensional Scenery”, K-Gallery, Chengdu, China 836:“Headlines”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 547:
Zhang Dali, World’s Shadows, Artist’s Statement, 2011
1441:“Me! Me! Me!”, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China 1047:“De/constructing China”, Asia Society, New York, USA 960:“Art From The Streets”, ArtScience Museum, Singapore 856:“Dialogue”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 442:
AK-47 is the name of an automatic rifle designed by
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