Press Release
ShanghART Beijing is pleased to invite you attending Orbit of Rock, a new solo project of artist Zhang Ding, at 21:30pm of Apr. 30th 2014. Zhang Ding will magically turn ShanghART Beijing into a live concert on that occasion and bring 13 rock songs from 4 bands, listed as below:

‘Pantera’:
Cowboys from Hell
Primal Concrete Sledge
Psycho Holiday

‘The Black Crows’:
Stare it Cold
Rainy Day Woman

‘Metallica’:
Enter Sandman
Creeping Death
Fade to Death   

‘AC/DC’:
Black in Black
Highway to Hell
Whole Lotta Rosie
For those about to Rock
……

It was a great performance in the history of rock and roll, while it will be reinterpreted on Apr. 30th, 2014.

Zhang Ding was born in 1980 in Gansu. He graduated from the North West Minority University, Oil Painting Department in 2003. He studied at the China Academy of Fine Arts, New Media Art from 2003 to 2004. He resides and works in Shanghai. Recent exhibitions include: Orbit, Zhang Ding’s Solo Project, The Armory Show, Focus Section, New York, U.S.A (2014); La Biennale de Lyon 2013, Lyon, France; Gold & Silver, Zhang Ding Solo Exhibition, Galerie Krinzinger, Austria (2013); Perspectives 180 - Unfinished Country: New Video from China, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, U.S.A.(2012); Buddha Jumps over the Wall, Top Contemporary Art Centre, Shanghai (2012); Opening, Zhang Ding Solo Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2011); Huge Character, Cooperation Project by Sun Xun, Tang Maohong, Zhang Ding, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing (2011); China Power Station - part 4, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy (2010); Shanghai Kino, KUNSTHALLE BERN, Switzerland (2009); ZhangDing, Wind, Krinzinger Projecte, Vienna, Austria (2008); China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2007); Big City and A Lot of Ash – A Lot of Dust, BizArt Center, Shanghai (2005) and First International Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art: MC1, Montpellier, France (2005).

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About the Artist

Zhang Ding (born in 1980 in Gansu Province, based in Shanghai) is one of the most active and influ-ential Chinese artists in the international art scene. For more than a decade, Zhang Ding is known for creating large-scale sculptures, installations and videos, and also for periodically curating live events that are musical and performative in nature, collaborating with artists from all fields.

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About the Gallery

ShanghART gallery was initiated in 1996 in Shanghai. It has since grown to become one of China’s most influential art institutions and a vital resource to the development of contemporary art in China with two spaces in 50 Moganshan Road (Main Space and H-Space), a public warehouse space in West of Shanghai (ShanghART Taopu), and a gallery space in Beijing and representing over 40 artists.

Being recognized for its importance ShanghART became the initial gallery from China participating in major international art fairs like Art Basel and Fiac, Paris. ShanghART gallery also enjoys the great respect of being among the 75 most influencial galleries selected in Thames & Hudson’s publication ‘International Art Galleries: Post-war to Post-millennium.’

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