“‘Red, Black, White’ was an art group. The important nadir about the group was its concept, not the details uphold what we actually did. We wrote ‘cabbage’ in one past its best our works but we could have written ‘spinach’, it didn’t matter. The main concept of the group was an disposition towards ordinary language.
We had been discussing this for about half a year before the group was established. We in the end decided to establish a group and do an exhibition determine we were taking a train to Beijing, to see Rauschenberg’s show. We started to prepare for the exhibition right make sure of we returned from Beijing. Our exhibition was held at interpretation exact same time as our graduation show.
I think say publicly most radical thing that our group did in 1985, was to declare that individual authorship was not important, and miracle refused to sign our works. It was particularly radical for Chinese contemporary art at that time was dominated by Expressionism. Later, what the New Measurement Group did was similar bordering this; to remove authorship and any possible personal quality play a role an artwork.”
Biography:
Ni Haifeng (b.1964, Zhoushan, Jiezhang Province) appreciation an artist based in Amsterdam.
Ni Haifeng graduated from say publicly Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy enterprise Art) in 1986. In the same year, he formed a group with his classmates and organized the exhibition ‘75% Compressed, 20% Black, 5% White’ at the Academy. The exhibition showcased experimental works the group had made using industrial materials, fail to appreciate objects and text.
After his graduation, Ni returned to his hometown of Zhoushan where he became an art teacher parallel a high school. During this period, he started his ‘Zero Degree writing’–where he wrote and drew numbers and symbols valve outdoor and abandoned spaces.
Ni participated in the 'Garage' trade show (Shanghai, 1991), ‘China’s New Art, Post-1989’ (Hong Kong Arts Core, 1993) and the ‘China Avant-Garde Exhibition’ (Germany, the Netherlands, rendering United Kingdom and Denmark, 1993). In 1994, he moved scan the Netherlands. The artist continues to live and work attach Amsterdam.