No Snow on the Broken Bridge: Film and Video Installations by Yang Fudong

Obrist, Hans Ulrich; Yang Fudong; Ziba De Weck Ardalan

ISBN 10: 3905701855 / ISBN 13: 9783905701852

Published by JRP|Ringier, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Snow on the Broken Bridge: Film and Video Installations by Yang Fudong
• Publisher: JRP|Ringier
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3905701855
• ISBN 13: 9783905701852
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Though he trained as a painter at the China Academy of Fine Arts, Yang Fudong, one of the most interesting and influential young artists emerging from China today, has always preferred film. His videos and photographs combine and accumulate perspectives, investigating identity through ancient mythology, personal memory and lived experience. His subjects, often in their late 20s and early 30s, seem confused and appear to be hovering between the past and present, or perhaps China's past and present. That split gives them an expectant quality, as if something is going to happen that never quite does. Yang Fudong seeks, through vignettes, a poetics of place and people as an alternative to the politics of power. No Snow on the Broken Bridge includes in-depth coverage of the recent title piece and an overview of his oeuvre to date. Texts by Ziba de Weck and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

About the Author

Yang Fudong was born in Beijing in 1971. His work has been shown in the Carnegie International and the Shanghai Biennale, and at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the International Center of Photography. In 2005 it appeared at, among other venues, the Venice and Moscow Biennales and the Tate Modern, with solo shows at Amsterdamis Stedelijk Museum and Kunsthalle Wien.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist was born in 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1993, he founded the Museum Robert Walser and began to run the Migrateurs program at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where he served as a Curator for contemporary art. He presently serves as the Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.