Zhang Peili - China Avant-Garde: The Farber Collection London Friday, October 12, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Literature

    W. Ai, ed., Black Cover Book, Beijing 1994, p. 72 (illustrated); S. Champion and K. Smith, Representing the People, Manchester, 1998-1999, pp. 38-39 (illustrated); H. Wu, ed., The First Guangzhou Triennial – Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990 – 2000), Guangdong, 2002, p. 39 (illustrated); Q. Zhu, Chinese Avant-Garde Photography since 1990, Hunan, 2004, p. 38 (illustrated); K. Smith, Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, Zurich, 2005, p. 369 (illustrated); H. Wu and C. Phillips, Between Past and Future: New Photography from China, Chicago and New York, 2006, p. 27 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    Continuous Reproduction is an iconic conceptual work for which Zhang photographed a photograph and repeated this process twenty-five times. The original image is a standard propaganda image of blissful youth in a sunlit setting from the 1950s. Minute losses from photographic print to print accumulate until the image in the final frame has almost disintegrated into white noise. Literally a pictorial version of the children’s game of “broken telephone”, Continuous Reproduction is an acerbic but objective commentary on the nature of repetition, history, and memory.

519

Continuous Reproduction 25 Times

1993
25 black and white photographs.
12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm) each.
Signed, titled and dated “Continuous Reproduction 25 Times 1993 [in English] Zhang Peili [in Chinese]” and numbered of 15 on the reverse of 25th print. This work is from an edition of 15.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £10,800

China Avant-Garde: The Farber Collection

The Farber Collection
13 October 2007, 7pm
London