4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney will hold a talk by leading Chinese contemporary artist, Zheng Guogu (Yangjiang Group), on Thursday October 30, 6:30-7:30pm.

Zheng Guogu is internationally recognised for producing large-scale installations and architectural interventions that highlight the absurd and often ironic connections between traditional Chinese culture and everyday life. He works both independently and as a leading member of the Chinese contemporary art collective, Yangjiang Group, based in the coastal city of Yangjiang in the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province. As part of a generation of Chinese artists who have been affected by the explosion of global market forces, Zheng’s art practice questions the meaning of calligraphy, painting, performance and architecture in our globalised contexts.

Zheng Guogu will discuss the emergence of Yangjiang Group during the early 2000s; the artistic strategies employed by the group living outside the key centres of artistic production in China; and their idiosyncratic perspective on the relationship between culture and everyday activities such as gambling, gaming, drinking tea, calligraphy, food and built environments. Zheng will also discuss previous projects of Yangjiang Group and the development of a major new project for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art to be presented in January 2015.

About the event

Date: Thursday 30 October 2014, 6.30-7.30pm

Venue: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Courtesy of the artist and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, for further information please visit www.4a.com.au.