tag:zhanghuan.blog.co.uk,2009-11-14:/MokoFeed2009-11-14T14:38:33+01:00tag:zhanghuan.blog.co.uk,2007-10-04:/2007/10/04/zhang_huan_the_saatchi_gallery_art_galle~3082918/akshayzhanghuan2007-10-04T11:24:49+02:002007-10-04T11:24:49+02:00 <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span><a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_huan.htm" title="Zhang Huan - Artwork - The Saatchi Gallery"><u>Zhang Huan</u></a></span></strong><span><a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_huan.htm"><u>:</u></a><span>     </span></span><span><a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_huan.htm" title="Zhang Huan - Artwork - The Saatchi Gallery"><u>Zhang</u></a> is considered one of the most influential artists who belonged to the group 'Beijing East Village," a kind of art colony located in the rural outskirts of Beijing. There artists would perform works exploring issues surrounding consumerism, sexuality, gender and personal suffering in or around their homes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_huan.htm" title="Zhang Huan - Artwork - The Saatchi Gallery"><u>Zhang Huan's</u></a> often traumatic performances are memory retrievals, recollections of suffering. For example, a 1994 performance in a public toilet in a rundown area of Beijing referred to the abortions and female infanticides which occurred under the Chinese government's one child policy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>His performance art is bound to provoke By Cate McQuaid <br><a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_huan.htm" title="Zhang Huan - Artwork - The Saatchi Gallery"><u>Zhang Huan </u></a>is the type of artist whom many outside the rarefied world of performance art label a crackpot. He has covered his naked body in honey and fish oil and sat in a public toilet, attracting flies.</span></p> <p> <small> <a href="http://zhanghuan.blog.co.uk/2007/10/04/zhang_huan_the_saatchi_gallery_art_galle~3082918/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>