Walker Art Center

Works in the Exhibition

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">Eight-Legged Hat</span>
Eight-Legged Hat
2000
pith helmet, watercolor and ink, wood, paint, wire
24 x 34 x 34 in. (60.9 x 86.4 x 86.4 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


Writings

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">Wheel</span>
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

Bestiary

1. Originally referring to a medieval allegorical or moralizing work on the appearance and habits of real or imaginary animals or a collection of descriptions of real or imaginary animals.

2. Huang Yong Ping has used... read more »


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