China - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:02:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png China - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 FIVE PORCELAIN SEEDS. 2010. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/five-porcelain-seeds-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-porcelain-seeds-2010 Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:01:46 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=28560 London: Ai Weiwei, 2010

Five small (approx 2 x 0.7cm) hand painted porcelain sunflower seeds. Originally used for the Tate Gallery Turbine Hall installation where visitors were encourage to walk on the 100 million of seeds place on the ground  - the exhibition was ended because of health and safety issues with the dust thrown up by the seeds. Here we offer 5 such seeds unused from the original manufacturer.

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Five small (approx 2 x 0.7cm) hand painted porcelain sunflower seeds. Originally used for the Tate Gallery Turbine Hall installation where visitors were encourage to walk on the 100 million of seeds place on the ground  - the exhibition was ended because of health and safety issues with the dust thrown up by the seeds. Here we offer 5 such seeds unused from the original manufacturer.

The post FIVE PORCELAIN SEEDS. 2010. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> GILBERT & GEORGE IN CHINA (TONGUES AND WATER MAIN COVERS). 1993. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/gilbert-george-in-china-tongues-and-water-main-covers-1993/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gilbert-george-in-china-tongues-and-water-main-covers-1993 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:33:38 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=11540 Peking: National Art Gallery, 1993
50 x 70cm full colour offset exhibition poster on thick white paper - a rather attractive poster with a full colour image of one of the artists' photo-collage works. A variant poster for the artists' first ever exhibition in China. Fine.

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50 x 70cm full colour offset exhibition poster on thick white paper - a rather attractive poster with a full colour image of one of the artists' photo-collage works. A variant poster for the artists' first ever exhibition in China. Fine.

The post GILBERT & GEORGE IN CHINA (TONGUES AND WATER MAIN COVERS). 1993. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> GILBERT & GEORGE IN CHINA (CLENCHED FIST). 1993. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/gilbert-george-in-china-clenched-fist-1993/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gilbert-george-in-china-clenched-fist-1993 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:32:17 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=11532 Peking: National Art Gallery, 1993
50 x 70cm full colour offset exhibition poster on thick white paper - a rather attractive poster with a full colour image of one of the artist's photo-collage works (which appears suitably communist in both colour and image: given the use of a central clenched fist - and G&G's later works do have a hint of socialist realism about them). Fine.

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50 x 70cm full colour offset exhibition poster on thick white paper - a rather attractive poster with a full colour image of one of the artist's photo-collage works (which appears suitably communist in both colour and image: given the use of a central clenched fist - and G&G's later works do have a hint of socialist realism about them). Fine.

The post GILBERT & GEORGE IN CHINA (CLENCHED FIST). 1993. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> MY AMERICA. 2000. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/my-america/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-america Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:13:29 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=255 NYC: Deitch, n.d. (2000)
21 x 15cm, 20pp (folded glued in sheets - which alternatively open out to ten 30 x 42cm full colour posters which can be viewed without breaking the binding). The first edition of this documentation of Zhang's immigrant performance where he and 56 naked American citizens stood in front of an audience and carried out various spiritual and physical events including a period of aggressive pelting of Zhang with solid loafs of bread and rolls. The fold-out sheets display small posters of the action which if desired can be peeled away from the glue binding for display. Zhang's practice before he came to the USA involved often long periods of meditation under extreme conditions including masochistic actions such as melting ice by only his own body heat as well as sitting in a fly-infested public toilet in China covered in honey without moving for hours. One is forced to admire the artist's pluck and while his work is interesting it is also a reminder that the emerging Chinese art world is often several years behind the performance and artistic experiments of the west (we would suggest by around 30 years) albeit there is a freshness about Zhang's dogmatic suffering and this book is well presented. Fine and scarce.

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21 x 15cm, 20pp (folded glued in sheets - which alternatively open out to ten 30 x 42cm full colour posters which can be viewed without breaking the binding). The first edition of this documentation of Zhang's immigrant performance where he and 56 naked American citizens stood in front of an audience and carried out various spiritual and physical events including a period of aggressive pelting of Zhang with solid loafs of bread and rolls. The fold-out sheets display small posters of the action which if desired can be peeled away from the glue binding for display. Zhang's practice before he came to the USA involved often long periods of meditation under extreme conditions including masochistic actions such as melting ice by only his own body heat as well as sitting in a fly-infested public toilet in China covered in honey without moving for hours. One is forced to admire the artist's pluck and while his work is interesting it is also a reminder that the emerging Chinese art world is often several years behind the performance and artistic experiments of the west (we would suggest by around 30 years) albeit there is a freshness about Zhang's dogmatic suffering and this book is well presented. Fine and scarce.

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