id: 169820 accession number: 2012.100 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.100 updated: 2023-05-24 11:06:38.726000 ½ Series, 1998. Zhang Huan (Chinese, b. 1965). Chromogenic print; paper: 119.4 x 104.1 cm (47 x 41 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2012.100 title: ½ Series title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1998 creation date earliest: 1998 creation date latest: 1998 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, 20th century technique: chromogenic print department: Photography collection: PH - Misc. 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Zhang Huan (Chinese, b. 1965) - artist --- measurements: Paper: 119.4 x 104.1 cm (47 x 41 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in black ink on verso: "1/2 Zhang Huan (signed) 1998 [unidentified markings] ap 14/15" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 3, 2012 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The artist used his own body for this “concept photo,” a performance done for the camera without an audience. digital description: This work was inspired by the market in Beijing where Zhang Huan ate breakfast every morning. “I could see rows and rows of ribs on sale at different stalls. When I saw the ribs, I saw myself. Half of a person is his body and the other half is his soul.” The human body is meat, but so much more. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 318 url: --- IMAGES