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Sui Jianguo Biography
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1956 |
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Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province
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1984 |
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Graduated from the Fine Arts Department, Shandong Institute of Fine Arts
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1989 |
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Graduated from the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Beijing
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1994 |
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UNESCO - Aschberg International Foundation for the Promotion of Culture
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1989 - 1997 |
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Associate Professor, Sculpture Department, CAFA
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1997 |
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Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne University Travel Grant for Young Asian Scholars
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2000 |
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Teaching at Ensba, Paris as a Guest Professor three months
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Currently lives in Bejing, China / Vit ŕ Beijing (Chine).
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Director of the Sculpture Department for the Académie des Beaux Arts. It is thanks to him that abstract and conceptual sculpture have been accepted by the chinese authorities. Surpassing China's borders, he is probably one of the most promising sculptures of the 21st century.The red dinosaur – a symbol of imperialist China, like communist China- with the engraved door on the chest mentions ‘Made in China’; it is a glance toward plastic toys from the start of the Chinese economic flight, but definitely a powerful symbol of an antiquated China moving toward being contemporary.
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Throughout the 1960s, everything was 'Made in Japan', in the 1970s 'Made in Taiwan', and in the 1980s 'Made in China'. The fabrication of finished products based on models and imported raw materials has become the economic norm of emerging countries. This economic international capitalistic model has helped to accelerate stimulating an economic transformation of an archaic and impoverished China. The transplantation of the ‘Consumer Culture’ at such an astronomical scale from the chinese population has made China the biggest unknown in the world’ Proposed by Sui Jianguo, extract from the exhibition catalogue ‘Paris-Pékin’, Espace Pierre Cardin, October 5-28, 2002.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Ships at Sea, C-Space, Beijing, China
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2008
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Hunting Birds, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
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2008
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Free Fall, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
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2008
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New World Order, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
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2008
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Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon – Works on Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
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2008
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Sui Jianguo: Revealing Traces, JoyArt, Beijing, China (solo)
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2007
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Sui Jianguo, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China (solo)
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2007
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Fashion Accidentally, MOCA Taipei, Taipei
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2007
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Contemporary Art, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
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2007
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Metamorphosis – The Generation of Transformation in Chinese
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2007
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Barcelona – Paris – Pekin, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
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2007
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Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
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2007
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Absolute Images II, Arario Gallery, New York, USA
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2007
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! CHINA NOW !, McClain Gallery, Houston, USA
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2007
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MADE in CHINA – The Estella Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Louisiana
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2007
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China Now, Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
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2007
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RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA
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2006
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Speeding Up – Sui Jianguo Solo Exhibition, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
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2006
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Fiction@Love, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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2006
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CHINA TRADE, Centre A – Vancouver International Center for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC
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2006
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Jiang Hu, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA, Los Angeles, USA
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2006
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ABSOLUTE IMAGES: Chinese Contemporary Art, Arario Chungcheongnam-do, Cheonan-si, Korea
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2006
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Under the Radar: Chinese Contemporary Art, Robischon Gallery, Denver, USA
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2006
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Double-sound Cracker, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
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2004 - 2006
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Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Asia Society, International Center for Photography, New York, USA, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
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2005
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Mahjong – Chinese Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Germany
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2005
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Xianfeng – Chinese avant-garde, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
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2005
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Beijing International Contemporary Art Exhibition
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2005
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Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China
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2005
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Renovation – Relations of Production, Long March Foundation, Beijing, China
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2005
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Sui Jianguo—Sleep of Reason, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA (solo)
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2004
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Playing with CHI Energy, House of Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan
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2004
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What is Art—Two Wrongs Can Make One Right, Xian Art Museum, Xian, China
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2004
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Gods Becoming Men, Firssiras Museum, Athens, Greece
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2004
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The First Nominative Literation, Exhibition of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
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2004
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Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
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2004
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Now—Conceptual Estate in Shanghai, Shanghai Show Center, China
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2004
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Image China, Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris, France
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2004
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Le Moine and Le De’mon, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
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2004
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Busan Sculpture Project, Busan, Korea
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2004
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Light as Fuch, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
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2004
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Celebrating 20 Years of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
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2004
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Art on the Beach, organized by Galerie Enrico Navarra and Hanart T Z Gallery, St. Tropez, France
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2004
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“Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”, Asia Society, International Center for Photography, New York
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2004
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Lili Waiwai, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France
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2003
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An Opening Era – 40th Anniversary of the Founding of CAFA, CAFA
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2003
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Open Sky, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai
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2003
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Left Wing, Left Bank Plaza, Beijing
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2003
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Second Reality, Apple Place, Beijing
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2003
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Red Memory, 798 Art District, Beijing
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2003
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Today’s Chinese Art, Shijitan, Beijing
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2003
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2003 Beaufort – Triennial Contemporary Art, Oostende
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2003
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Contemporary Sculpture – China Korea Japan Osaka Museum, Japan
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2003
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Chinese Art Today, China Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing
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2002
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Mirage, Su Zhou Art Museum, Suzhou
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2002
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Guang Zhong Triennial, Guang Dong Art Museum
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1999
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Clothes Viens Studying, Passage Gallery, Beijing (solo)
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1999
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Clothes Viens Studying, Passage Gallery, Beijing (solo)
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1997
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Meeting the Shadow of 100 Years, Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne (solo)
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1996
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Sui Jianguo Sculpture, Hannart, Hong Kong (solo)
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1995
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Deposit and Fault, New Delhi Cultural Research Centre, India (solo)
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1994
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Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
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1994
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Memory Space - Works of Sui Jianguo, Beijing (solo)
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1994
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Sui Jianguo Sculpture, CAFA (solo)
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1994
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Sui Jianguo Sculpture, Hannart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
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Private collections in Beijing, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Italy, Australia, Japan, Scotland and the USA.
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2007
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China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
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1998
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Zhu Wenfan, A Book of Outstanding Personalities from Shandong Art College, Shandong Pictorial, No. 276, Issue 10, p. 52
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1998
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Huang Du, Sculpture: The Extension of Idea and Terminology, Artlife, Jan/Feb
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1998
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Robert Leonard, Sui Jianguo/Li Gang, Art/Text, p. 60
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1997
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Carolyn Fitzpatrick, Sculpture in Beijing, Australian Art Monthly, November, No. 105
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1997
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Carolyn Fitzpatrick, Asian Artnotes, Australian Art Monthly, September, No. 103
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1997
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An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture by Sui Jianguo, Beijing Weekend, No. 297, No. 298
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1997
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Sui Jianguo’s Works, Fine Art Research, No. 3
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1997
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Ma Qin Zhong, Portrait of the Artist Sui Jianguo, Artlife, July/August
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1997
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Sui Jianguo’s Works, Fine Art Observation, Vol. 7
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1997
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Youichi Maki, China Avant-Garde, Chinese Library (Tokyo), Vol. 10
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1997
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Karen Smith, Exhibition Review, Asian Art News, Autumn
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1997
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Academic Sculpture Selection, Fine Arts Literature, Vol. 8
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1997
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Entertainment, China Daily, September 6, No. 6
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1996
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Shu Jiang, The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Art Gallery Magazine
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1996
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Hanart Presents Sui Jianguo, Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Vol. 2, No. 1
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1995
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Susan Dewar, Sui Jianguo and the Sculptural Dilemma, Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Winter
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1995
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Mo Shi, Taking Upon Himself the Pressures of Life - An Interview from the Artist’s Workshop, Gallery, No. 3
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1995
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A Discussion on Five Modern Sculptors Work, Sculpture, Vol. 2
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1994
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The Spiritual Meeting : Non-movement Competition in Asian Olympic Games, Ming Bao Weekend, October 9
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1994
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Sui Jianguo’s Sculpture, Contemporary, Vol. 5 No. 3
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