Tang Hui’s painting “A Strike in Space and Time”: between the past and the future
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the work of the outstanding Chinese artist Tang Hui (born 1968), whose work has received recognition far beyond the borders of the country. The author’s focus is on the painting “A Strike in Space and Time” (1991), which has become a kind of manifesto of the master’s artistic worldview and ideological and aesthetic attitudes on the “polyphonic” art scene of China at that time. As the study showed, Tang Hui, whose formation took place during the New Wave 85 period, not only absorbed the key conceptual ideas of this movement, but also actively rethought the boundaries of the artistic language in a new cultural context. In the context of the radical transformation of the Chinese art scene of the 1980s. Tang Hui built his own creative trajectory. His artistic method is an original synthesis of Western and Chinese artistic codes. The results of the study not only fill the existing gaps in Russian art history, but also open up prospects in the further development of the problem of cultural dialogue between the West and the East, as well as issues of the national identity of modern painting in China.
About the Author
Chanyuan Zhang
Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Zhang Chanyuan
109004, Moscow
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Zhang Ch. Tang Hui’s painting “A Strike in Space and Time”: between the past and the future. ARTE. 2025;(3):113-120. (In Russ.)
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