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This interview was conducted in Zhou Chunya's studio in Chengdu on 1 March 2010.

Biography:

Zhou Chunya (b. 1955, Chongqing) is an artist living and working in Chengdu.

In the 1970s Zhou learned to paint at the 5.7 Arts School, a special art school established during the Cultural Revolution to cultivate artistic talent. In 1977, Zhou entered the Printmaking Department at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and after graduating in 1982, was assigned to work at the Chengdu Painting Institute (also known as the Chengdu Art Academy).

In 1986, Zhou moved to West Germany and in 1988 began teaching at an art school in Kassel, Germany. Zhou returned to China in 1989.

Zhou continues to paint and exhibit widely.


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周春芽,1955年生於重慶。藝術家,居於成都。

七十年代於成都的「五•七」文藝學校學習繪畫,此為在文化大革命期間培養美術人才而專門建立的新式藝術學校。1977年入讀四川美術學院版畫系,1982年畢業,分配到成都畫院。周春芽在八十年代初期的創作多以藏族人物作題材。至1986年赴西德留學,1988年入讀德國卡塞爾美術學院自由藝術系。1989年回國,至今居於成都。
 
周春芽的作品見於海內外展覽。

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.

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Interview with Zhou Chunya (Transcript, Simplified Chinese), 訪問:周春芽(抄本, 簡體中文)