Xiang Jing participates in Chazen Museum of Art major exhibition: Tradition and Innovation: The Human Figure in Contemporary Chinese Art, and her important work is collected by the Museum

2015-04

This exhibition includes around 20 pieces of artwork across different media by contemporary Chinese artists. These works present different possibilities and meanings of “human figure” in the context of contemporary art. Four of Xiang Jing’s works from her four artistic phases are shown in the exhibition. Other participating artists include Liu Xiaodong, Yu Hong, Su Xinping, Li Songsong, etc. Xiang Jing’s important work Are One Hundred Playing You? Or Only One? (2007) is collected by Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, United States) permanently, and is now on display in its Permanent Collection (Gallery 17) at the Chazen.

Chazen Museum of Art opened in 1970 to further the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s mission of education, research, and public service. The Chazen is home to the second largest collection in Wisconsin: more than 20,000 works include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographsand decorative arts. The permanent collection covers diverse historical periods, cultures, and geographic locations, from ancient Greece, Western Europe, and the Soviet Empire, to Moghul India, eighteenth-century Japan, and modern Africa. The collection continues to grow thanks to artwork donations and purchases.

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