This interview was conducted at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong on 3 March 2008.

Biography:

Huang Yongping (b.1954, Xiamen, Fujian) is a Paris-based artist.

In 1977, Huang entered the Department of Oil Painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art), as one among the first group of students to enroll there since the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, for his thesis project, Huang produced a series of paintings made with industrial paint sprayers.

After graduating, Huang became a secondary school teacher in Xiamen. There he organized a number of experimental art events, including the ‘Five-Person Exhibition’ (1983), the ‘Xiamen Dada Exhibition’ (1986) in which the Huang and his artists colleagues burned their own artwork, and an exhibition of scrap material at the Fujian Provincial Museum (1986). For the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ in 1989, Huang exhibited A History of Chinese Painting and A Concise History of Modern Painting Washed in a Washing Machine for Two Minutes. That same year, Huang was invited to participate in ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, a city which he soon made his home.

In 1990, Huang participated in ‘Chine Demain pour Hier’, curated by Fei Dawei, and in 1999, Huang represented France in the Venice Biennale. In 2005, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis organized ‘The House of Oracles: A Huang Yongping Retrospective’ in conjunction with a comprehensive catalogue of his work. In 2008, the exhibition was presented at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.


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黃永砅，1954年生於福建廈門。藝術家，現居巴黎。

1977年入讀浙江美術學院（現杭州中國美術學院）油畫系，為文革後第一批學生。1981年畢業，畢業作品為以大型工業噴槍製作的繒畫。畢業後被分配往廈門，于任教中學，並在廈門進行活動，包括1983年的《五人藝術展》、1986年的《廈門達達展》(焚燒事件)及《發生在福建省美術展覽館內的事件展覽》。1989年的《中國現代藝術展》，展出了黃永砅的作品〈《中國繪畫史》和《現代繪畫簡史》在洗衣機裡攪拌兩分鐘〉。

1989年獲邀請參加《大地魔術師》（1989，法國龐比杜文化藝術中心），此後定居巴黎。後來又參加了費大為策劃的《獻給昨天的中國明天》（1990，法國南部）。在2005年美國明尼蘇達Walker Art Center策劃了黃永砅的回顧展《占卜者之屋》，並出版詳盡畫冊。此展覽在2008年巡迴至北京尤倫斯當代藝術中心展出。