Venue |
Date |
|---|---|
4th Floor, No.138, Shanghai Square, Middle Huaihai Road, 淮海中路138號上海廣場4樓, Shanghai, China |
10 – 25 Apr 1999 |
‘Art for Sale’ was an exhibition/event self-organised by the artists who rented a vacant space in a shopping mall in Shanghai. The event consisted of two parts: first, a supermarket setting in which “products”—such as canned food, toys, soap, and toilet rolls—all designed by the thirty-some participating artists, were sold; the second part was a comparatively formal exhibition, with video, installation, and performance works by the same group of artists.
The controversial works in the exhibition attracted police attention, who arrived on the second day and requested the organisers to send all works to the authority in order to obtain a permit. The exhibition, which should have run from 10 April until 25 April 1999, was closed on the third day.
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Thrilling? Disgusting? Art in the Supermarket
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April 1999
Made in China — Imagine: Does Every Chinese Person have Blond Hair? (Exhibition View) (Set of 2 Photographs)
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The Face of Shanghai (Exhibition View)
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YANG Zhenzhong, 楊振中
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The Making of a Perfect Relationship (Exhibition View) (Set of 3 Photographs)
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Views of Shanghai Square as the Exhibition Venue of Art for Sale (Set of 4 Photographs)
《超市藝術展》的舉辦地點上海大廈 (4張照片)