© 2001, Zhang Hongtu
Currently not on view
The Bikers,
2001, printed 2008
Zhang Hongtu 張宏圖, born 1943, Pingliang, China; active New York, NY
2008-332 a-b
Zhang Hongtu’s paired scrolls were digitally composed from dozens of separate photographs he took in Beijing, part of a well-known landscape painting by the fifteenth-century artist Shen Zhou (Lofty Mount Lu), and Mao Zedong’s calligraphy of his famous poem (“Snow”). Fusing old and new, this work obliges us to ask, what have we taken from the past and what will we offer to the future? What sources do we draw from and which do we reject? And, above all, who we are and where are we headed? Zhang Hongtu himself confesses, “I know where these people came from, but I don’t know where they are going.”
Information
Title
The Bikers
Dates
2001, printed 2008
Maker
Medium
Two hanging scrolls; computer-generated image printed on paper
Dimensions
image (a): 213 x 109.1 cm. (83 7/8 x 42 15/16 in.); mount: 292.8 x 128.9 cm. (115 1/4 x 50 3/4 in.)
image (b): 212.6 x 109.1 cm. (83 11/16 x 42 15/16 in.); mount: 293.4 x 129.2 cm. (115 1/2 x 50 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and gift of the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Object Number
2008-332 a-b
Place Made
Asia, China
Inscription
Seals of artist
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist's seals (in red)
a. "Zhang"張, sq. intaglio
Zhang Guolao riding on donkey, picture seal (painted)
etc.
b. "Zhang" 張, sq. intaglio
"Hongtu"宏圖, sq. relief
"Ye xing Zheng" 也性鄭, tall rect. relief
"Dong zhang xi wang" 東張西望, sq. intaglio and relief
"Zhongguo Gansu pingliang zhi sheng" 中國甘肅平涼之生, large sq. relief
Culture
Materials
Subject
2001/2008 Zhang Hongtu, born 1943 (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.
Note: here use "/" instead of "–" to indicate creation date of 2001; edition date 2008.
Note: here use "/" instead of "–" to indicate creation date of 2001; edition date 2008.
