This interview was conducted at Zhang Dali's studio in Beijing on 18 July 2009. 


Biography:

Zhang Dali (b. 1963, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province) is an artist currently residing in Beijing.

In 1983, Zhang was admitted to the Department of Book Design at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in Beijing. Zhang worked from 1987 to 1989 as a professional painter in the area adjacent to the Old Summer Palace in Beijing’s Haidian District. In July 1989, Zhang moved to Bologna, Italy.

In 1992, Zhang Dali began spray-painting human head profiles onto buildings in the city of Bologna, a practice which developed into his series Dialogue. After returning to Beijing in 1995, Zhang continued to work on this project, and in 1998, he began hollowing out some of his spray-painted profiles, which evolved into his Demolition series. In 2002, Zhang began a new project called One Hundred Chinese, in which he created resin models of the heads of a hundred immigrant workers in Beijing.

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張大力，1963年生於黑龍江哈爾濱。藝術家，現居於北京。

張氏於1983年考入北京中央工藝美術學院書藉裝幀藝術系。1987至1989年間，他於北京海澱區圓明園作職業畫家。後於1989年7月旅居意大利北部城市波倫尼亞。
 
自1992年開始，張大力於波倫尼亞城塗鴉人頭像，並命名為⟨對話⟩。1995年回北京後，他繼續從事⟨對話⟩的創作；並於1998年開始開鑿人頭像，命名為⟨拆⟩。自2002年開始，張氏以石灰「拓」下100名北京民工的頭像，並把這些頭像結集成《一百個中國人》。