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Collection Online as of May 6, 2024

East Village No.1

East Village No.1

1993–95
(Chinese, b. 1968)
China
gelatin silver print (printed 2005)
Image: 37.5 x 54.5 cm (14 3/4 x 21 7/16 in.)
Purchased with funds from an anonymous donor 2018.18
© Rong Rong
Location: not on view

Description

This hand-painted sign marks the entrance to an artists’ community established on Beijing’s east side in the early 1990s. The artists nicknamed the neighborhood “Beijing East Village” to suggest their affinity with New York City’s rebellious East Village art scene. The view, while avoiding the most squalid areas of the village, leaves little doubt about the hardscrabble nature of life there.
  • Rong Rong (the artist)
    Karen Smith, Beijing, China
    2005
    Larry Warsh, New York, NY
    Scott Howard, Hartsdale, NY
    February 26, 2018
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Wu Hung, Rong Rong’s East Village 1993-1998, Introduction by Christopher W. Mao, New York: Chambers Fine Art, 2003 18, 61-62, 70-75
    Wu Hung, RongRong &inri: Tui-Transfiguration, China: Timezone 8, 2004 114-115, 117, 125
    Wu Hung, Transcience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art The University of Chicago, 1999 102, 107, 114-117
    Albertini, Claudia. Avatars and Antiheroes: A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists. New York: Kodansha America, 2008. 88
    Hooton, Keiko S., and Tony Godfrey. Contemporary Photography in Asia. Munich: Prestel, 2013. 122-123
    Roberts, Claire. Photography and China. 2013. 160-161
  • {{cite web|title=East Village No.1|url=false|author=Rong Rong|year=1993–95|access-date=06 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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