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Hu Xiangqian 胡向前
Xiangqian Art Museum Ⅰ 向前美術館Ⅰ
2010
Hu Xiangqian’s Xiangqian Art Museum is an ongoing work in which the artist performs an imaginary museum collection through language and actions. The performance has been presented in numerous institutions around the world, including the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, the Times Museum in Guangzhou, and the Baltic Triennial of International Art in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2012. For each presentation, the artist ‘curates’ an exhibition of works selected from his fictional collection—many of the objects are actual artworks he encountered, but the collection also includes entirely invented works. This video shows the inaugural opening of the Xiangqian Art Museum on the lawn of Taikang Space in Beijing. After introducing himself as the only member of staff, Hu energetically interprets each work through movement. This museum without physical objects reflects on how we keep a mental record of the things we encounter, and it also offers a wry comment on institutional collecting practices.
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