This interview was conducted at Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai on 9 September 2009.


Biography:

Wu Shanzhuan (b. 1960, Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province) graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou (now the China Academy of Art).

Wu is one of China’s most enigmatic conceptual artists whose work involves language, pseudo-text, humour and symbolism from everyday life. Some of his most celebrated works of the 1980s include his installation Red Humour International (1986), and Selling Shrimps, which was performed at the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ at the National Art Museum of China (Beijing, 1989).

After moving to Europe in the late '80s, Wu obtained a master’s degree from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 1989). After residing in Germany and Iceland for over ten years, he now has a base in Shanghai.

Wu continues to work as an artist and exhibits widely. A large retrospective of Wu’s work was recently organized at the Guangdong Museum of Art (2008).


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吳山專，1960年生於浙江舟山。藝術家，現居上海。

畢業於杭州浙江美術學院（今中國美術學院）。吳山專一直堅持觀念藝術的探討。八十年代中期，透過偽造漢字、波譜語言，及幽默語言符號的運用和創作， 1986年的〈國際紅色幽默〉裝置藝術為其標誌性作品。後以〈賣蝦〉行為藝術參與 1989年在中國美術館舉行之《中国現代藝術展》。
 
1989年後旅居歐洲，獲德國漢堡藝術學院碩士學位，並在德國和冰島生活工作達十年之久。吳山專的作品見於海內外。2008年，吳山專的個人回顧展在廣州廣東美術館舉行。