To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain 1995

ZHANG HUAN born 1965, Chinese

To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain 1995

gelatin silver print
100.5 x 150.5 cm (sheet)
signed, dated, numbered and titled in Chinese characters on label attached verso: To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain/ Zhang Huan 1995/ ap 5/5.

edition: Artists Proof 5/5 (edition of 15)

Provenance:
Barry Friedman, New York
Christies, New York, 25 March 2014, lot 191
Shannon Bennett, Melbourne
Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 10 November 2021, lot 76
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
48th Venice Biennale, Venice, 13 June - 17 November 1999 (another example)
Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, 5-28 October 2002 (another example)
Zhang Huan, Kunstverein, Hamburg, 30 November 2002 - 9 February 2003; Museum Bochum, Germany, 5 April - 15 June 2003 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.53, another example)
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, 22 July - 21 August 2005; The Albright Knox Art Gallery and University of Buffalo Art Galleries, New York, 21 October 2005 - 29 January 2006 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.178, another example)
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society Galleries, New York, 6 September 2007 - 20 January 2008 (illus. exhibition catalogue pp.102-103, another example)

Reference:
Zhijian, Q., 'Performing Bodies: Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, and Performance Art in China, Art Journal, New York, 1999, vol.58, no.2, p.60 (illus., another example)
Outeirino, B., Zhang Huan: Pilgrimage to Santiago, Xunta de Galicia, Spain, 2001, p.178 (illus., another example)
Berghuis, T., Performance Art in China, Timezone 8, Hong Kong, 2006, p.26 (illus., another example)
Lu, S., Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture, University of Hawaii Press, Hong Kong, 2007, p.81 (illus., another example)
Chiu, M., Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know, AW Asia, New York, 2008, p.56 (illus. another example)
Mann, S., Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, p.96 (illus., another example)

Estimate: $12000 - 18000

Result Hammer: $8500

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