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Exclusive Interview: Hao Sheng, Curator (Fresh Ink: Ten Takes On Chinese Tradition)

Jing Daily recently spoke with Hao Sheng, the Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston about his recent exhibition, Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, which featured works by a selection of Chinese and Chinese-American artists.

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  1. Each Artist In Exhibition "Approached Tradition A Bit Differently"
  2. Jing Daily (JD): What prompted you to do this exhibition? What was the thinking behind it?
  3. Hao Sheng (HS)
  4. JD: Could you briefly outline the creative process that was structured for the artists? How involved were you in the artists' work?
  5. HS
  6. JD: How did you choose the ten artists in the show?
  7. HS
  8. JD: There's quite a multiplicity of voices represented in this show. Could you talk a bit about the range of production strategies on view here, and perhaps the range of perspectives they reflect?
  9. HS
  10. JD: Xu Bing went beyond seeking inspiration and actually borrowed excepts and passages from a textbook of instructions ( Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting ) on ink painting – a book that has been the manual for many of China’s best painters. Can you talk about this gesture of appropriation?
  11. HS
  12. JD: How are the artists working with and against tradition formally and conceptually?
  13. HS
  14. JD: As the MFA masterpiece that inspired his work, U.S.-born artist Arnold Chang ( previously on Jing Daily ) chose Jackson Pollock's Number 10
  15. (1949)--the only artist to choose a non-Chinese work to focus on. Yet his response was a landscape handscroll --a very Chinese art form. Could you talk about this a bit?
  16. HS
  17. JD: November 2010 marked the opening of Fresh Ink , as well as the opening of the New MFA . How does this exhibition fit in with the institution’s new vision?
  18. HS
  19. JD: As the exhibition did close last week, what kind of effect might a show like this have on these artists' careers moving forward?
  20. HS
  21. JD: Fresh Ink
  22. was in the works for five years. What's next for you?
  23. HS
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Published February 17, 2011

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