This interview was conducted on 15 July 2011 in Beijing. For more information please visit the Materials of the Future website.

此訪談於2011年7月15日在北京進行。詳情請瀏覽此頁


Biography:

Tang Qingnian (b.1956, Beijing) is an artist and art critic based in Los Angeles, in the United States.

Tang Qingnian graduated in 1984 from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in Beijing. He subsequently became an editor of Meishu magazine, where he reported and commented on the New Wave art phenomenon that was emerging in the mid-1980s.

By 1989, Tang became the Deputy Director of Meishu’s Editorial Department and was also a member of the organizing committee of the seminal 'China/Avant-Garde Exhibition'. In 1991, Tang played a role in organizing the exhibition 'I Don't Want to Play Cards With Cezanne' and 'Other Works: Selections from the Chinese 'New Wave' and 'Avant-Garde' Art of the Eighties' at the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasedena, California. In the same year, he moved to the United States. Tang continues to live and work in Los Angeles.


簡歷︰

唐慶年,1956年出生於北京,藝術家及批評家。

1984年畢業於中央工藝美術學院,後任《美術》雜誌編輯,期間致力於報導及評論八十年代中期出現的新潮美術現象。1989年,他任《美術》雜誌編輯部副主任,是《中國現代藝術展》組織委員會成員和展覽負責人之一。

1991年幫助美國亞太博物館舉辦《不與塞尚玩牌——中國新潮藝術展》。1991年移居美國,從事多種不同媒介的視覺創意。現居美國洛杉磯。

Context

In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents. 

As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.

AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.

Alternative title

Fang Wen: Tang Qing Nian

Access level

Online

Spoken language

Mandarin

Content type

event photograph/recording, 

interview documentation

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Interview: Tang Qingnian (Chinese subtitles), 訪問:唐慶年