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Article: Huang Yong Ping Who? Famous in his Chinese homeland and avant-garde art circles, but unknown in the United States, Huang Yong Ping makes an American splash with a retrospective opening Sunday at Walker Art Center.(SCENE)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 14, 2005
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Byline: Mary Abbe; Staff Writer
With a pair of lion cages and a terrarium of reptiles and their live lunch - snakes, a toad, a gecko and some agitated crickets - Huang Yong Ping's show is expected to push even the avant-garde envelope when it debuts Sunday at Walker Art Center. From pin-covered chairs to fingernail reliquaries, the Walker has offered many an oddity for public consumption, but no show in living memory has required the services of a taxidermist, zookeeper, pet store and aircraft junkyards as this one has.
Among the more spectacular items is "Bat Project IV," an enormous installation that includes the trashed cockpit of a decommissioned ...