TO ADD ONE METER TO AN ANONYMOUS MOUNTAIN, 1995
ZHANG HUAN
silver gelatin photograph
100.0 x 150.5 cm
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title in Chinese on label verso: To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain / Zhang Huan 1995 / ap 5/5
Barry Friedman, New York
Christie’s, New York, 25 March 2014, lot 191
Shannon Bennett, Melbourne
48th Venice Biennale: dAPERTutto (APERTO over ALL), Venice, 13 June – 17 November 1999 (another example)
Paris–Pekin, Espace Cardin, Paris, 5 – 28 October 2002 (another example)
Zhang Huan, Kunstverein, Hamburg, 30 November 2002 – 9 February 2003, then touring to Museum Bochum, Germany, 5 April – 15 June 2003 (another example)
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, 22 July –21 Aug 2005, then touring to The Albright Knox Art Gallery and the University of Buffalo Art Galleries, New York, 21 October 2005 – 29 January 2006 (another example)
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society Galleries, New York, 6 September 2007 – 20 January 2008 (another example)
Zhijian, Q., ‘Performing bodies: Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, and performance art in China’, Art Journal, New York, vol. 58, no. 2, 1999, p. 60 (illus., another example)
Outeirino, B., Zhang Huan: Pilgrimage to Santiago, Xunta de Galicia, Spain, 2001, p. 178 (illus., another example)
Dziewior, Y., Zhang Huan: Kunstverein in Hamburg, exhibition catalogue, Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2003, p.53 (illus., another example)
Minglu, G., The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, exhibition catalogue, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, New York, 2005, p. 178 (illus., another example)
Berghuis, T., Performance Art in China, Timezone 8, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 26 (illus., another example)
Chiu, M., Bu, K., and Heartney, E., Zhang Huan: Altered States, Charta/Asia Society, New York, 2007, pp. 102 – 103 (illus., another example)
Lu, S., Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture, University of Hawai'i Press, Hong Kong, 2007, p. 81 (illus., another example)
Chiu, M., Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know, AW Asia, New York, 2008, p. 56 (illus. another example)
Mann, S., Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, p. 96 (illus., another example)
To Add One Meter to An Anonymous Mountain, 1995, DVD: 6:00 minutes, colour, stereo, in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle