Title
Madeln Curved Vase- Blue and White Vase with Design of Figures
2014
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Date
- 2014
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- Porcelain
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 15.0 x 15.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Roger Pietri and DG Wilson 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 237.2014
- Copyright
- © Xu Zhen
- Artist information
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Xu Zhen
Works in the collection
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About
The art of Xu Zhen plays provocatively with the notion of collision: from cultural ideologies and global histories to the act of creation and power of commerce. These central tensions relate closely to the climate of the early 2000s -- a time of unparalleled economic development in China and rapid globalisation. This was the era in which Xu Zhen emerged on the contemporary international art scene as China’s representative at the 2001 Venice Biennale at the age of twenty-four.
In 2009 the artist founded MadeIn, an ‘art creation company’ that echoes China’s positioning as a global centre for the manufacturing of goods while also exploring the contested terrain between commercial production and artistic authenticity. This work – along with its companion 'Famille-Rose Olive Vase with Bat and Peach Design' -- resembles traditional Chinese porcelain in its materials and surface embellishment but takes on a new demeanour with its neck appearing to have bent or wilted.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Xu Zhen: A MadeIn Company Production, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, , 19 Jan 2014–20 Apr 2014
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Kevin McGarry, Flash Art, 'Company of Man - Xu Zhen/MadeIn Company', pg.80-87, Milan, May 2014-Jun 2014, (colour illus.).
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Frieze no.163, London, May 2014, (colour illus.).
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