Artist Qiu Zhijie discusses his diverse artistic career and how his practice of drawing maps unites different aspects of his work. He also describes his newly commissioned work “Map of ‘Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World’” (2017), which traces “several decades of contemporary Chinese art.”
Qiu Zhijie is one of 71 artists participating in “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from October 6, 2017, to January 7, 2018.