Artforum, January 1st, 2007
IN AUGUST 2005 word began to spread through the Chinese art community that the Shanghai-bused artist Xu Zhen had scaled Mount Everest and, what's more, managed (with a band of expert climbers) to saw off the top 1.86 meters of the mountain's peak. A month later, this icy trophy became the pièce de résistance in the artist's installation 8848-1.86 at the Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Japan-preserved inside a refrigerated vitrine surrounded by video and photographic documentation of the climb as well as by the team's equipment. The natural reaction among audiences was...
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