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Xinkedu Group
The Xinkedu Group was established in 1988, primary members included Chen Shaoping (b. 1947, Beijing), Wang Luyan (b. 1956, Beijing), and Gu Dexin (b. 1962, Beijing). In 1995 the group was declared disbanded.
The most important work of the Xinkedu Group was their Analysts series. Members continued to use the collective working principals of the Tactile Art Group, cutting out the personalized elements of their practice. Their work relied on strict principals to develop the protocol for dots and lines on the canvas, in post-production works developed upon this foundation into a more regulated system of choosing realistic objects and methods. On the premise of obliterating individuality, the Xinkedu Group set up a system of ¡°objective creation¡± methods. Most of their early period works are documents and manuscripts, while during later stages they began using computers. Analysts II is the earliest work of Chinese contemporary art to use computers. Their later works also incorporated elements from everyday life. The Tactile and Xinkedu art groups were equally as conceptual and thorough in their destruction of individuality.
