Miao Xiaochun
By: edited by Uta Grosenick & Alexander Ochs ; with text contributions by Gregor Jansen, Wu Hung, Siegfried Zielinski
Contributors: Grosenick, Uta; Ochs, Alexander, 1954-; Jansen, Gregor, 1965-; Wu Hung, 1945-; Zielinski, Siegfried
Publisher: DuMont
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9783832192853
Subjects: Digital art; Artistic Photography; Chinese Art
Description: Summary: Miao Xiaochun (*1964) wurde bekannt durch seine grossformatigen Panoramafotografien, digitale Zusammenschnitte moderner chinesischer Städte oder traditioneller Bauwerke. In neueren Arbeiten beschäftigt sich Miao mit Bildikonen der westlichen Kunstgeschichte, die er wiederum digital umsetzt - wie auf dem Buchcover, das den berühmten 'Jungbrunnen' von Lucas Cranach d. Ä. in chinesischer Adaption zeigt. Mit Texten von Siegfried Zielinski, Professor für Medientheorie an der Universität der Künste Berlin; Gregor Jansen, Leiter des ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Wu Hung, Kunsthistoriker und Kurator zahlreicher Ausstellungen zur zeitgenössischen chinesischen Kunst, lehrt an der University of Chicago.

Miao Xiaochun became well known with his large-format panorama photographs, digital assemblies of modern Chinese cities or time-honoured buildings. A person named 'He' who depicts Miao himself wearing traditional Chinese garments often plays a key role in these works. A further imposing piece is the three-dimensional computer simulation The Last Judgement in Cyberspace which quotes Michelangelo's fresco from the Sistine Chapel. All the figures are replaced by a single virtual model that in turn also depicts the artist. In recent works, Miao occupies himself with the pictorial canon of Western art history which he realizes digitally. See the cover of this book that shows a Chinese adaptation of the famous Fountain of Youth by 16th century German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Notes: Includes an interview with the artist.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-193).

Text in English and German.