http://www</TITLE= ><STYLE>=0A=0A</STYLE></HEAD><BODY=20= bgcolor=3D"white"=20lang=3D"EN-US"=20style=3D"tab-interval:.5in">=0A=0A= <DIV=20class=3D"Section1">=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt=2056.0pt=2084.0pt=20= 112.0pt=20140.0pt=20168.0pt=20196.0pt=20224.0pt=203.5in=20280.0pt=20= 308.0pt=20336.0pt;=0D= mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-family:Helvetica"><A=20= href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/arts/design/01zhou.html?ex=3D114= 7147200&en=3Dd52753fb0ed8c34c&ei=3D5070&emc=3Deta1"><SPAN=20= style=3D"color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.= nytimes.com/2006/05/01/arts/design/01zhou.html?ex=3D1147147200&en=3Dd<= O:P></O:P></A>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt=2056.0pt=2084.0pt=20= 112.0pt=20140.0pt=20168.0pt=20196.0pt=20224.0pt=203.5in=20280.0pt=20= 308.0pt=20336.0pt;=0Dmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><A=20= href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/arts/design/01zhou.html?ex=3D114= 7147200&en=3Dd52753fb0ed8c34c&ei=3D5070&emc=3Deta1"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-family:Helvetica;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-under= line:=0Dnone">52753fb0ed8c34c&ei=3D5070&emc=3Deta1</A><SPAN= =20style=3D"font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Georgia"><O:P></O:P>=0A= =0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:=0D= none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Georgia">=C2=A0<O:P></O:P></P= >=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:=0D= none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Chinese=0AArtist=20Zhou=20= Tiehai=20Proves=20the=20Emperor=20Is=20Naked<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A= <P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;=0D= text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20style=3D"font-size:9.5pt;font-family:ArialMT;= =0Dcolor:gray">By=20<A=20= href=3D"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/david= _barboza/index.html?inline=3Dnyt-per"><SPAN=20= style=3D"color:#154374;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">DAVID=20= BARBOZA</A><O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;=0D= text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20style=3D"font-size:9.5pt;font-family:ArialMT;= =0Dcolor:gray">Published:=20May=201,=202006<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A= <P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">SHANGHAI,=20April=2030=20= =E2=80=94=20In=20the=20early=201990's,=0Awhen=20Chinese=20contemporary=20= art=20was=20just=20beginning=20to=20take=20off,=20a=20young=20painter=0A= here=20named=20Zhou=20Tiehai=20came=20up=20with=20an=20ambitious=20plan=20= to=20make=20himself=20famous.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">He=20would=20succeed=20= by=20beating=20the=20art=20market=20at=20its=0Aown=20game,=20exposing=20= its=20commercialism=20while=20exploiting=20it=20to=20the=20hilt.=20He=20= would=0Aproduce=20paintings=20that=20he=20hoped=20would=20be=20acclaimed=20= by=20the=20same=20Western=0Acollectors=20and=20journalists=20who,=20in=20= his=20mind,=20had=20advanced=20the=20careers=20of=20too=0Amany=20= mediocre=20Chinese=20artists.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">And=20he=20would=20do=20= all=20this=20without=20lifting=20a=20brush:=0Ahe=20would=20delegate=20= that=20work=20to=20hirelings.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Somehow,=20he=20pulled=20= it=20off.=20Mr.=20Zhou=20is=20now=20one=20of=20<A=20= href=3D"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterri= tories/china/index.html?inline=3Dnyt-geo"><SPAN=20= style=3D"color:#154374">China's</A>=20hottest=20artists.=20His=20= meteoric=20rise=0Afrom=20marginalized=20rebel=20to=20mainstream=20= superstar=20culminated=20in=20a=20solo=20exhibition=0Aof=20his=20works=20= at=20the=20Shanghai=20Art=20Museum=20in=20March.<O:P></O:P>=0A= =0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Many=20of=20the=20= biggest=20names=20in=20Chinese=20contemporary=0Aart=20were=20on=20hand=20= for=20the=20opening.=20Mr.=20Zhou=20choked=20up=20with=20tears,=20= seemingly=20awed=0Aby=20the=20lofty=20stage=20he=20had=20= ascended.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">For=20more=20than=20a=20= decade,=20his=20work=20has=20mocked=20the=20art=0Ascene.=20In=20an=20era=20= when=20every=20leading=20Chinese=20artist=20seems=20to=20have=20a=20= recognizable=0Abrand,=20a=20series=20of=20obvious=20signature=20pieces,=20= Mr.=20Zhou=20slyly=20appropriated=20Joe=0ACamel=20from=20the=20American=20= cigarette=20ads=20and=20transformed=20it=20into=20his=20own=0Aimprobable=20= brand.=20(Many=20people=20here=20refer=20to=20Mr.=20Zhou=20=E2=80=94=20= pronounced=20Joe=0A=E2=80=94=20as=20the=20Joe=20Camel=20guy.)=20Now=20= important=20collectors=20boast=20of=20owning=20his=20paintings.=0AHis=20= works,=20which=20command=20prices=20as=20high=20as=20$100,000,=20have=20= been=20shown=20in=20New=0AYork,=20London=20and=20at=20the=20Venice=20= Biennale.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">That=20he=20doesn't=20= paint=20them=20himself=20seems=20to=20make=0Alittle=20difference,=20= even,=20or=20perhaps=20especially,=20to=20those=20clued=20in=20to=20his=20= game.=0AKaren=20Smith,=20a=20Beijing-based=20art=20critic,=20calls=20him=20= "the=20child=20who=20dares=20to=0Asuggest=20the=20emperor=20is=20indeed=20= naked."=20Others=20hail=20him=20as=20a=20marketing=0A= genius.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"The=20fact=20that=20= he=20doesn't=20paint=20much=20doesn't=0Abother=20me,"=20said=20Uli=20= Sigg,=20a=20former=20Swiss=20ambassador=20to=20China=20and=20a=20major=0A= collector=20of=20Chinese=20contemporary=20art.=20"Jeff=20Koons=20doesn't=20= touch=20anything.=0ABridget=20Riley=20has=20workers.=20It's=20accepted=20= today.=20It=20doesn't=20have=20to=20have=20traces=0Aof=20your=20own=20= hand."<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">In=20an=20interview=20= in=20his=20studio=20here,=20Mr.=20Zhou,=2039,=0Asaid=20that=20what=20was=20= most=20important=20was=20the=20concept=20behind=20the=20= work.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"You=20need=20to=20get=20= someone's=20attention,"=20he=0Asaid,=20sipping=20tea=20as=20three=20of=20= his=20workers=20busily=20sketched=20and=20painted=0A(sometimes=20with=20= air=20brushes)=20a=20variety=20of=20portraits=20he=20had=20first=20= drafted=20on=0Acomputer.=20Typically=20Mr.=20Zhou=20comes=20up=20with=20= an=20idea=20=E2=80=94=20for=20example,=0Atransposing=20the=20head=20of=20= Joe=20Camel=20onto=20a=20classical=20European=20painting,=20which=20he=0A= then=20executes=20on=20his=20computer=20using=20Photoshop.=20After=20= that,=20staff=20members=20take=0Aover,=20using=20a=20printout=20of=20the=20= image=20as=20a=20guide.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">When=20Mr.=20Zhou=20= recounts=20the=20story=20of=20his=20own=0Aimprobable=20rise,=20he=20= can't=20help=20chuckling,=20as=20if=20the=20joke=20were=20on=20the=20= foreign=0Acollectors=20and=20journalists=20now=20flocking=20to=20his=20= studio.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"=46rom=20the=20= beginning=20I=20knew=20I'd=20be=0Asuccessful,"=20he=20said.=20"It's=20= really=20not=20that=20hard=20to=20create=20art."<O:P></O:P>=0A= =0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Although=20he=20= doesn't=20paint=20anymore,=20Mr.=20Zhou=20says=0Athat=20he=20can.=20He=20= grew=20up=20in=20Shanghai=20and=20in=201989=20earned=20an=20arts=20= degree=20from=20the=0ASchool=20of=20Fine=20Arts=20at=20Shanghai=20= University.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">While=20in=20college,=20= he=20painted=20and=20created=20collages=0Aon=20discarded=20newspapers.=20= As=20Beijing's=20avant-garde=20movement=20got=20under=20way=20in=20the=0A= late=201980's,=20he=20formed=20his=20own=20circle=20of=20artists=20here=20= and=20even=20experimented=0Awith=20performance=20= art.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"It=20was=20mostly=20= violent=20stuff,"=20he=20said.=0A"I=20would=20sometimes=20stick=20= needles=20in=20people=20onstage."<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">When=20his=20career=20= failed=20to=20take=20off,=20Mr.=20Zhou=20took=20a=0Ajob=20at=20an=20= advertising=20agency,=20producing=20commercials=20for=20state-owned=20= television.=0ABut=20before=20long=20he=20regretted=20his=20decision=20to=20= drop=20out=20of=20the=20art=20world.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">In=201993,=20he=20met=20= the=20American=20writer=20Andrew=20Solomon,=0Awho=20was=20working=20on=20= an=20article=20about=20Chinese=20contemporary=20art=20for=20The=20New=20= York=0ATimes=20Magazine.=20Mr.=20Solomon=20looked=20at=20his=20work=20= but=20did=20not=20mention=20him=20in=20the=0A= article.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Mr.=20Zhou=20was=20= frustrated=20again=20after=20he=20ran=20into=20a=0ANewsweek=20= photographer=20who=20had=20come=20to=20China=20to=20take=20pictures=20of=20= top=20artists.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"She=20had=20a=20list=20= of=20all=20the=20political=20pop=0Aartists,"=20Mr.=20Zhou=20said.=20"But=20= I=20wasn't=20on=20the=20list.=20So=20I=20decided=20to=0Acome=20= back."<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Determined=20to=20make=20= it,=20Mr.=20Zhou=20said,=20he=20analyzed=0Athe=20contemporary=20art=20= scene=20in=20China.=20It=20was=20dominated,=20he=20said=20by=20= Western-style=0Apaintings=20studded=20with=20patently=20Chinese=20= elements,=20such=20as=20images=20of=20Mao=20or=0Areferences=20to=20the=20= Cultural=20Revolution=20that=20easily=20caught=20the=20eye=20(and=0A= pocketbooks)=20of=20foreign=20collectors.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"The=20way=20= foreigners=20thought=20about=20Chinese=20art=0Awas=20too=20simple,"=20he=20= said.=20"They=20just=20thought=20about=20politics.=20So=20I=0Athought=20= I'd=20do=20something=20different."<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">And=20he=20did.=20Mr.=20= Zhou=20said=20he=20decided=20it=20would=20not=0Abe=20necessary=20for=20= him=20to=20do=20the=20painting=20himself,=20since,=20to=20his=20= thinking,=20his=0Acompetitors=20were=20not=20terribly=20skilled=20= painters=20anyway.=20His=20initial=20subject=0Amatter=20was=20what=20he=20= saw=20as=20the=20absurdities=20of=20the=20art=20= market.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">One=20early=20work=20= pictured=20Mr.=20Solomon,=20the=20writer=20who=0Ahad=20passed=20him=20= over,=20as=20Columbus=20discovering=20the=20new=20world=20of=20Chinese=0A= contemporary=20art.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Then=20came=20a=20= series=20of=20fake=20magazine=20covers,=0Aincluding=20one=20of=20= Newsweek=20proclaiming=20Mr.=20Zhou=20a=20rising=20star,=20and=20a=20= fake=0Anewspaper=20article=20about=20a=20stock=20called=20Zhou=20Tiehai=20= that=20went=20public=20and=0Asteadily=20gained=20value=20thanks=20to=20= foreign=20buyers.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">He=20also=20made=20a=20= short=20silent=20film,=20"Will,"=0Awhich=20depicts=20a=20band=20of=20= artists=20eager=20to=20build=20their=20own=20airport=20to=20lure=20more=0A= collectors=20to=20Shanghai.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20= class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"We=20must=20continue=20= having=20exhibitions=20to=20draw=0Aattention=20to=20ourselves,"=20one=20= artist=20says=20in=20a=20caption,=20while=20another=20adds:=0A"We=20must=20= establish=20close=20relationships=20with=20critics=20and=20= journalists."<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">None=20of=20this,=20of=20= course,=20was=20a=20solitary=20act=20of=0Acreation.=20Mr.=20Zhou=20hired=20= a=20team=20of=20artists=20to=20execute=20his=20ideas.=20This=20left=20= him=0Afree,=20he=20says,=20to=20focus=20on=20refining=20his=20concepts,=20= and=20networking=20with=0Acollectors=20and=20gallery=20owners=20like=20= Lorenz=20Helbling,=20founder=20of=20the=20ShanghART=0A= gallery.<O:P></O:P>=0A=0A<P=20class=3D"MsoNormal"=20= style=3D"margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-pagination:=0D= none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN=20= style=3D"font-size:=0D15.0pt;font-family:Georgia">"I=20came=20to=20= Shanghai=20in=20'94=20and=20saw=20his=20works=0Aon=20paper,"=20Mr.=20= Helbling=20said.=20"I=20thought=20he=20was=20interesting.=20I=0Aremember=20= a=20Belgian=20collector=20came=20to=20my=20home=20to=20look=20at=20some=20= 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