NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 V OLUME 14, NUMBER 6 INSI DE Artist Features: Bingyi, Huang Rui, Ma Yanling, Zheng Chongbin Conversations: David Diao, Liang Kegang, Sun Yuan, Wei Jia, Zhang Hongtu US$12.00 NT$350.00 P R I NTE D IN TA I WAN 6 VOLUME 14, NUMBER 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 C ONTENTS 38 2 Editor’s Note 4 Contributors 6 Becoming Landscape: Diffractive Unfoldings of Light, Space, and Matter in the New Work of Zheng Chongbin Maya Kóvskaya 44 22 Seeing the Unseen World: The Art of Bingyi Amjad Majid 38 A Conversation with Wei Jia Daniel Chen 44 A Single Artwork: A Conversation with Zhang Hongtu De-nin Deanna Lee 58 Huang Rui: Painting with Words 66 Jonathan Goodman 66 This Actually Happened—On Objectivity Without Universality: A Conversation with David Diao David Xu Borgonjon 76 Tangled Up in Blue: Women in the Art of Ma Yanling Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky 76 87 The Traditional and the Contemporary— Musings About Art and Philosophy: A Conversation with Liang Kegang Alice Schmatzberger 94 Unlived by What Is Seen: A Conversation with Sun Yuan Anthony Yung 107 Chinese Name Index Cover: Zhang Hongtu, Little Monkey (detail), 2013, ink and 94 oil on rice paper mounted on panel, 123.19 x 116.84 cm. Courtesy of the artist. We thank JNBY Art Projects, D3E Art Limited, Chen Ping, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Li, and Stephanie Holmquist and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu. 1 Vol. 14 No. 6 Editor’s Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art PRESIDENT Katy Hsiu-chih Chien LEGAL COUNSEL Infoshare Tech Law Office, Mann C. C. Liu FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum Yishu 71 presents the work of a diversity of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace artists, yet two central themes have made MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian EDITORS Julie Grundvig themselves evident in this issue—first, Kate Steinmann aesthetics and ideas that navigate between the Chunyee Li EDITORS (CHINESE VERSION) Yu Hsiao Hwei East and West, and, second, the relationship Chen Ping between the traditional and the contemporary Guo Yanlong CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde in visual art. The first is exemplified by WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li featured artists who were raised in mainland ADVISORY BOARD China—Zheng Chongbin, Wei Jia, and Zhang Judy Andrews, Ohio State University Melissa Chiu, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Hongtu—and who have either lived or spent John Clark, University of Sydney extended periods of time in the US, enabling Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. them to fuse considerations developed in the Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator West with those from the East in their artwork. Fan Di’an, Central Academy of Fine Arts Huang Rui, a seminal player in the evolution of Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh contemporary art in China, has, since early in Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome his career, employed a vast number of Western Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop Katie Hill, University of Westminster styles in his work without relinquishing Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive concepts embedded in Chinese thought. David Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator Diao, on the other hand, has spent most of Lu Jie, Long March Space his life in the US and appropriates New York Charles Merewether, Director, ICA Singapore Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand school–style painting to explore his family’s Philip Tinari, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art home in China before they took flight to the Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic and Curator West when he was a youth. 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The views expressed in Yishu are Keith Wallace not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 典藏國際版(Yishu)創刊於 2002年5月1日 典藏國際版‧第14卷第6期‧2015年11–12月 社 長： 簡秀枝 法律顧問： 思科技法律事務所 劉承慶 創刊編輯： 林蔭庭（Ken Lum） 總 策 劃： 鄭勝天 2 編者手記 主 編： 華睿思 (Keith Wallace) 編 輯： 顧珠妮 (Julie Grundvig) 4 作者小傳 史楷迪 (Kate Steinmann) 黎俊儀 網站編輯： 黎俊儀 6 化景：鄭重賓新作中光、物與空間 中文編輯： 余小蕙 的衍展 陳 萍 Maya Kóvskaya 郭彥龍 行 政： 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 22 冰逸的藝術：探視不可見的世界 顧 問： 王嘉驥 Amjad Majid 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) 巫 鴻 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 38 韋佳訪談 范迪安 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) 陳兆倫（Daniel Chen） 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) 胡 昉 侯瀚如 44 始终如一：與張宏圖的對話 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) De-nin Deanna Lee 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. Yao) 高名潞 58 黃銳：以字作畫 費大爲 楊天娜 (Martina Köppel-Yang) Jonathan Goodman 盧 杰 Lynne Cooke Okwui Enwezor Katie Hill 66 真有此事：客觀並非普遍 Charles Merewether 與刁德謙訪談 Apinan Poshyananda 許大衛（David Xu Borgonjon） 出 版： 典藏藝術家庭股份有限公司 副總經理： 劉靜宜 高世光 76 糾纏在鬱悶中：馬嬿泠作品中的女性 行銷總監： 林素珍 發行專員： 許銘文 Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky 謝宜蓉 社 址： 台灣台北市中山北路一段85號6樓 電話: (886) 2.2560.2220 傳真：(886) 2.2542.0631 87 傳統與當代─ 關於藝術與哲學的思考： 電子信箱：[email protected] 對話梁克剛 Alice Schmatzberger 國際版編輯部：Yishu Editorial Office 200-1311 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2P3, Canada 電話: (1) 604.649.8187 94 不在圖像中行動：孫原訪談 電子信箱: offi[email protected] 翁子健（Anthony Yung） 訂閱、投稿及廣告均請與國際版編輯部聯系。 設計製作： Leap Creative Group, Vancouver 創意總監： 馬偉培 107 中英人名對照 藝術總監： 周繼宏 設 計 師： 黃健斌 印 刷： 台北崎威彩藝有限公司 本刊在溫哥華編輯設計，台北印刷出版發行。 一年6期。逢1、3、5、7、9、11月出版。 網 址： http://yishu-online.com 管 理： Design Format 國際刊號： 1683-3082 售 價： 每本12美元 / 9歐元 / 350台幣 訂 閱： 由於過去12年來郵費的大幅上漲， 我們不得不對定價中的郵資部份作 相應的調整。 一年6期 （含航空郵資）： 94美元（亞洲）/ 104美元（亞洲以外地區） 兩年12期 （含航空郵資）： 180美元（亞洲）/ 198美元（亞洲以外地區） 封面：張宏圖，「小猴子」，2013，宣紙、 一年網上下載： 49.95美元 水墨和油，123.19 x 116.84 公分，藝術家提供 一年6期加網上下載： 134美元（亞洲）/ 144美元（亞洲以外地區） 感謝JNBY、 陳萍、李世默夫婦、賀芳霓 （Stephanie Holmquist）和Mark Allison 、 版權所有，本刊內容非經本社同意不得翻譯和轉載。 D3E Art Limited對本刊出版與發行的慷慨支持 本刊登載內容並不代表編輯部與出版社立場。 Contributors Daniel Chen is the Associate Director of Maya Kóvskaya is a curator, writer, and Kwai Fung Hin, an established Hong Kong independent scholar who focuses on art gallery with a focus on modern and contemporary art. In 2009, she received her contemporary Asian art. Previously based in Ph.D. from the University of California, New York City, Chen has curated exhibitions in Berkeley. She moved to Beijing in 1996 and both New York and Hong Kong, with a focus in 2009 established a second home base in on contemporary Chinese ink artists. He has New Delhi. An award-winning independent also co-produced several large-scale public art scholar and the recipient of the inaugural projects in Foshan, China, and in Hong Kong Yishu Award for Critical Writing on through which artists engaged directly with Contemporary Chinese Art (2010), she has the local community. Previous to his work as authored, co-authored, edited, translated, a curator, he was a professional musician and and contributed to many books and articles composer. He holds a B.Mus.