Provocateur
Zhao Zhao
Author: Hou hanruand Li Zhenhua
Editor: Flash Art
Date: 2017
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The first monograph on Zhao Zhao in English with essays by Hou Hanru and Li Zhenhua. The book examines an artistic practice emblematic for its ability to address social, political, and aesthetic conflict in a world undergoing unprecedented upheaval. He has consistently positioned his art as a counterweight to systems of control that affect and regulate the lives of individuals in China; while his work’s increasingly global reach testifies to its profound resonance beyond his country’s borders. A former assistant to Ai Wewei and now regarded a significant figure among the young Post-80s generation of contemporary Chinese artists.