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Works in the Exhibition
The Pole of the East
2004
aluminum
153 1/4 x 78 3/4 x 59 in. (389.3 x 200 x 149.9 cm)
Blog
Watch your back, Betty.
Paul Schmelzer
Fri, 02 Dec 2005
Visitors to House of Oracles over the next few days will notice unusual behavior from the blood red-legged tarantula–dubbed Betty by our gallery monitors–in Huang Yong Ping’s installation The Wise Man Learns from the Spider How to Spin a Web (she’s enclosed in the cage above the table in this photo): the spider has flipped [...] read more »
Huang Yong Ping
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Writings
Change Is the Rule
Hou Hanru
2005
Huang Yong Ping’s art is an entire ontology in itself. It’s a universe unto itself, and like the universe itself, it’s a complex system generated out of paradox and perplexity, which endow it with ultimate dynamism and vitality. His art is powerful but intelligent, revealing the essence of... read more »
Lexicon
Panopticon
1. A prison constructed so that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. First described by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in an eponymous book published in 1787, the panopticon is specifically a structure that consists of an... read more »
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