Works in the Exhibition

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">Trousers with Firecrackers</span>
Trousers with Firecrackers
1987
trousers, firecrackers, cardboard, black-and-white photograph
31 1/2 x 41 x 2 in. (80 x 104.1 x 5.1 cm) overall


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

Knowledge

1. While knowledge is often held up as the pinnacle of human achievement, it has throughout history been in the precarious position of being compromised by... read more »


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