Zheng Guogu

His father is a traditional instrument maker and a singer, who has at times worked for the Hong Kong Opera, a five-hour drive east from Yangjiang.

During the years that Zheng Guogu was growing up, things were already changing in China as the Maoist period receded into the past and the country opened up to the rest of the world.

He juggles fact with fiction or myth, while controlling the entry points to his community for visitors from the art world, who make the trek to visit him in the small town where he lives and works.

In this series, Zheng uses different elements of Hong Kong pop-culture magazines, which address people’s senses and their attraction to our consumerist branding culture.

[3] Sewing for another two thousands years is a textile work and part the needlepoint series, typical of his style in which traditional canvas-painting takes on the traits of embroidered carpet or wallpaper.

Zheng Guogu’s works aren’t judgments or counter-attacks, they are just enlargements of our reality 2016 Chinese Whispers, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Bern, Switzerland 2006 Through Popular Expression, The University of Central England in Birmingham, UK Take Down, Beijing Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland 2005 Out of Sight, Amsterdam Puzzle—It is from Yangjiang, Grace Alexander Contemporary Art Gallery, Switzerland Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2004 A l’ouest du sud de l’est, Center of Contemporary Art, Sète/Villa Arson in Nice, France From China, ICP International Center of Photography, New York My Home Is Your Museum, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou 2003 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy 2002 Paris-Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris Are You Going to Enjoy Calligraphy or Measure Blood Pressure?