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Artist Zhang Peili. Zhang Peili (born 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Considered the father of video art in China he works mainly with installation and video.
Zhang Peili (simplified Chinese: 张培莉; traditional Chinese: 張培莉; pinyin: Zhāng Péilì; born 1941), or Zhang Beili (simplified Chinese: 张蓓莉; traditional Chinese: 張蓓莉; pinyin: Zhāng Bèilì), is a Chinese geologist and the wife of former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
Zhang Peili is a pioneer of video art in China, who also works with other media to explore image construction and reality. Learn about his life, career, works and influences on Ocula Artist.
Learn about Zhang Peili, a conceptual artist who explores the sacred and the mundane in his paintings, videos and installations. He is a founder of the Pond Society and a mentor of many young Chinese artists.
ARTIST ZHANG PEILI has spent his thirty-year career willfully evading categorization. “I’m not a person who sticks to rules,” he noted in a 2011 interview. And as the diversity of his body of work suggests, he has never followed the unwritten rule that the successful artist must develop a recognizable style.
Zhang Peili is a central figure in Chinese contemporary art: he was the first artist to work in video in China. His clean, incisive video works, infused with sharp social and political commentaries, have made him a pioneer in video art internationally.
Zhang lives and works in Hangzhou. Works by Zhang Peili include Painting, Installation, Archival Documentation, Video Installation, Video, Photography and Work on Paper. There are 13 objects by Zhang Peili from the M+ Collection and the M+ Sigg Collection available online.
