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Zhang Peili, meanwhile, worked to address another concern of many artists at this time..
Place Of birth
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Biography
Zhang Peili was born in Hangzhou in 1957, earning his BA in 1984 from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, now the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.
Acknowledged as a pioneer of video art in China, Zhang’s influence has been profound, although his conceptual practice has never been confined to a single medium.
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Zhang Peili’s early paintings of quotidian scenes and objects during the dynamic period of the mid-1980s were influenced by Existentialism, representing feelings of loneliness and alienation. Zhang has said that his strongest influences as a young artist were cinema and literature – Kafka, Camus and Beckett, as well as Latin American writers such as Borges and Marquez, were especially significant.
With his artist peers, Geng Jianyi and Song Ling, he formed the Chi She, the Pond (or Pool) Society; their 1985 manifesto proclaimed their aim to obliterate the sacred in art, because ‘the sacr