This interview was conducted at Borges Libreria Institute for Contemporary Art, Guangzhou on 18 January 2008.


Biography:

Wang Du (b. 1956, Wuhan) is a Paris-based artist and exhibits widely.

Wang began his art studies at the Department of Sculpture in the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) in 1981. In 1986, he helped establish the Southern Artists Salon, in which Huang Xiaopeng, Chen Shaoxiong and Lin Yilin, among others, were also active members.  They co-organized a showing of their work at the first ‘Experimental Show of the Southern Artists Salon’ at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou.

Since moving to Paris in 1990, his work has been featured in many international exhibitions such as the 48th Venice Biennale’s French Pavilion (1999), the Taipei Biennial: The Sky is the Limit (2000), the exhibition ‘Contemporary Chinese Art in 2000: Time of Reviving’ (Chengdu, China, 2000) and the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007).


簡歷︰

王度，1956年生於湖北武漢。藝術家，現於巴黎生活及工作。

王度于1981年入讀廣州美術學院雕塑系。1986年創立「南方藝術家沙龍」﹝成員包括黃小鵬、陳劭雄及林一林等﹞，並策劃了在中山大學校園內進行的《南方藝術家沙龍第一回实验展》。
 
自1990年移居巴黎。近年參加的展覽包括第48屆《威尼斯雙年展──法國館》（1999）；《台北雙年展：無法無天》（2000）；《轉世時代： 2000中國當代藝術展》（2000，成都）；第10屆《伊斯坦堡雙年展》（2007）等。