WORKS

Huang Yong Ping co-founded the Xiamen Dada Group in 1983. He moved to Paris in 1989 to take part in the exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Pompidou. He created more than 170 artworks and installations over thirty years.

1980 – 1990

( 1983  Les Foins )  ( 1984  Nose ) ( 1985  Four Paintings Created According to Random Instructions )  ( 1986  Group Event in Fujian   •  The Beard Is Easiest To Burn  •  Mona Vinci )  ( 1987  Class Assignment  •  Dust  •  Trousers with Firecrackers  •  Large Turntable with Four Wheels  •  Kitchen  •  Manuscript Goes Through the Wall  •  Rubens’ Lion  •  The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in the Washing Machine for Two Minutes ) ( 1988  Eatable Portrait of the Artist  •  Jacket  •  Library  •  Pulling at the National Art Gallery in Beijing  •  Roulette Wheel With Six Criteria) ( 1989  Reptiles )

see images & captions

1990 – 2000

( 1990  Panser les plaies d’un arbre déraciné  •  Sacrifice au Feu  •  Sheng Gua  •  Untitled )  ( 1991 Chemin  •  Devons-Nous Encore Construire une Grande Cathédrale ?  •  Floor •  Unreadable Humidity  •  Reappearance of The Red Cross  •  The First Phone Call to Joseph Beuys After his Death )   ( 1992  Aircraft  •  Cantine de Bibliothèque  •  Indigestible Object  •  Jarre  •  La Maison d’Augure •  Grande Roulette  •  Safety Ladder  •  The Price Wheel )  ( 1993  108 Cards  •  Human Snake Plan  •  Passage  •  Roulette pour Pièce Semi-Circulaire  •  Theater of the World  •  Yellow Peril)  ( 1994  Chinese Hand Laundry  •  Kiosk  •  Le Sage Suivant l’Exemple de l’Araignée Tissant sa Toile 1  •  Out of the Center?  •  Overturned Tomb)  ( 1995  Balai  •  Bamboo-Buddha  •  Kearny Street  •  Pharmacy  •  Theater of the World/Bridge )  ( 1996  Terminal  •  Three Steps, Nine Footprints ) ( 1997  Altar  •  Clinique  •  Da Xian  •  En Route  •  Le Sage Suivant l’Exemple de l’Araignée Tissant sa Toile 2  •  Palanquin  •  Péril de Mouton  •  VOC  •  95 Arms of Guanyin ) ( 1998  De Gare de l’Est à Gare de l’Ouest  •  La Grange  •  Le Sage Suivant l’Exemple de l’Araignée Tissant sa Toile 3) ( 1999  Crane’s Legs, Deer’s Tracks  •  Globe and World Map  •  One Man Nine Animals  •  Plan for the Backs of Camels  •  To Start at the Serpent’s Head and To End at the Tiger’s Tail )

see images & captions

2000 – 2010

( 2000  Amphibies  •  Bank of Sand  •  Casque  •  Chapelle Saint-Michel  •  Eight-Legged Hat  •  Kiosque Flottant  •  Python  •  60-Year Cycle Chariot  •  Snake Shoes  •  Taigong Fishing  •  World Map )  ( 2001 Bat Project I  •  Double Bait )   ( 2002 (543-622). •  Bat Project II  •  Flying Bowl  •  Om Mani Padme Hum  •  The Nightmare of George V  •  Two Typhoons  •  World Factory  •  Xuan Wu  •  Yong Ping-Ping Pong )  ( 2003  A Football Match of June 14th 2022  •  Amerigo Vespucci  •  Bat Project III  •  Bat Project Vitrine  •  Dragon Boat  •  Hammam  •  Three Wings ) ( 2004  Eight Horses of Leonardo Da Vinci Tear Apart an Aircraft Carrier  •  Li Jie  •  Memorandum Bat Project  •  Pole of the East  •  Tête d’Or  •  Bat Project IV  )  ( 2005  1/4 Hoover Tower  •  202 Years Later, The Deserted School of Pharmacy  •  The Armadillo on Napoleon III’s Table )  ( 2006  An Undocumented Immigrant  •  Buddha’s Intestines  •  Chuan Lun Tsang  •  Ehi Ehi Sina Sina  •  La Liste des Offrandes  •  La Pêche  •  Tatou  •  Hands of Buddha  •  Walking Up Language  •  Wolves and Sheep Watching the Video of Aid El-Kebir  •  Wood of Guan Yin ) ( 2007  Colosseum •  Construction Site  •  Nine Wells •  Pentagon •  Punya Market ) ( 2008  Frolic ) ( 2009  Arche  •  Caverne  •  Ombre Blanche •  Tower Snake )

see images & captions

2010 – 2019

( 2010  8/02/10  •  Garofalo  •  Wu Zei )  ( 2011  Leviathanation  •  Ni Hao Ni Hao  •  Porte-Avion de Béton )   ( 2012  Bugarach  •  Camel  •  Chefs  •  Circus  •  Lamb-Plant  •  One Thousand Arms of Guanyin  •  Serpent Océan)  ( 2013  Abbottabad  •  Ceinture)  ( 2014  Bâton Serpent  •  Cage Serpent  •  Mue  •  Restes )  ( 2015  Arc de Saint Gilles  •  Pole of the East  •  Quatre Pattes )  ( 2016  De Celui qui Mange Est Sorti Ce Qui Se Mange  •  Double Wings  •  Empires  •  Head ) ( 2017  Les Consoles de Jeu Souveraines  •  Tinea Pedis  •  Vomit Bag) ( 2019  /&r  •  American Kitchen and Chinese Cockroaches  •  Chevalier du XXIème Siècle Empaillé  •  Flèche )

see images & captions

after 2019

( 2020  Ling Zhi Helicopters )

see images & captions

selection of work (15):

世界剧场/ 桥
THEATER OF THE WORLD/BRIDGE, 1993-1995
Metal, wood, glass, bronze sculptures borrowed from Musée Cernuschi (Paris), living animals and insects (spiders, crickets, cockroaches, millipedes, lizards, toads, snakes)
Bridge: 180 x 1200 x 310 cm
Theater of the World: 166 x 295 x 175 cm
Exhibition view Galerie des 5 Continents, Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, France, 1995

海蛇, SERPENT D’OCÉAN, 2012
Permanent installation: aluminium
12500 x 300 x 250 cm
Le Voyage à Nantes-Estuaire 2012, Saint-Brévin-les-Pins, France, 2012

剩余物, RESTES, 1995-2014
104 documents (notes, drawings, objects)
5600 x 55 x 40 cm
Exhibition view Bâton Serpent III: Spur Track to the Left, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2016
Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

蝙蝠计划 IV, BAT PROJECT IV, 2005
Airplane cockpit, bamboo scaffolding, construction plastic sheets, taxidermy bats, documents
1500 x 300 x 300 cm
Exhibition view House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, 2005

PÉRIL DE MOUTON (PERIL OF THE SHEEP), 1997
Installation: Wood, bamboo, cowskin, sheepskin
2000 x 1200 x 700 cm
Exhibition Péril de mouton, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France, 1997

帝国, EMPIRES, 2016
Aluminium, 350 containers, RTG, tar
13300 x 6430 x 2870 cm overall installed
Snake: 25000 cm long
Monumenta 2016, Grand Palais, Paris, France

一人九兽
ONE MAN, NINE ANIMALS, 1999
Wood, aluminium
Nine animals: 250 x 150 x 250 cm max each
French Pavilion: Jean-Pierre Bertrand & Huang Yong Ping, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1999
Collection Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation

发生在福建省美术展览馆的事件展览
THE EVENT EXHIBITION THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE FUJIAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 1986
with 焦耀明  Jiao Yaoming, 林嘉华 Lin Jiahua, 俞晓刚 Yu Xiaogang
Rubbish found outside the museum (cement, metal, wood, tile, vase…)
Fujian Museum of Fine Arts, Fuzhou, China, 1986

沙的银行,银行的沙
BANK OF SAND, SAND OF BANK, 2000 
Sand, concrete
350 x 607,5 x 438 cm
Exhibition view Shanghai Spirit – 3rd Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2000

三步九迹, THREE STEPS, NINE FOOTPRINTS, 1996
Plaster, iron, dustbin
Each foot: 80 x 10 x 35 cm
Variable dimensions overall
Exhibition view Trois Pas, Neuf Traces, Atelier d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France, 1995

《中国绘画史》和《现代绘画简史》在洗衣机里搅拌了两分钟
THE HISTORY OF CHINESE PAINTING AND THE HISTORY OF MODERN WESTERN ART WASHED IN THE WASHING MACHINE FOR TWO MINUTES, 1987-1993
Chinese tea box, paper pulp, glass
76,8 x 48,3 x 69,9 cm
Exhibition House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, 2005
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

方舟2009, ARCHE 2009, 2009
Wood, paper, burnt taxidermy animals
1810 x 412 x 800 cm
Exhibition view Arche 2009, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 2009

↑非表达绘画(按照随机指令创作的四幅画)
FOUR PAINTINGS CREATED ACCORDING TO RANDOM INSTRUCTIONS
, 1985
Oil on four canvases, wood, ink and felt-tip pen on A4 paper, paint
Each of 4 paintings: 213,4 x 152,4 cm
Wheel: 91,4 x 91,4 x 91,4 cm
Wooden panel: 56 x 93 cm
Exhibition view House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, 2005

EHI EHI SINA SINA, 2006
Copper, steel, wood, motor
Total height: 1190 cm
Prayer wheel: 216 x 216 x 314 cm
(1) Exhibition Panthéon, Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France, 2006
(2) Exhibition Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2008
Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

斗兽场, COLOSSEUM, 2007
Ceramic, soil, plants
551 x 758 x 226 cm
Exhibition view Huang Yong Ping: From C To P, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA, 2007