Publication Date: 2010

Publisher: Culture and Art Publishing House

Binding: Hardcover, 283 pages

Language: Chinese and English

ISBN: 9787503938818

Qiu Zhijie | Breaking the Ice: A History is a bilingual catalogue comprehensively charting the artist’s development over two decades. Published in conjunction with Qiu Zhijie’s 2009 solo exhibition at UCCA, “Breaking Through the Ice,” the book records the exhibited artworks through artist’s notes, additional texts, and drawings mapping out the exhibition’s narrative structure. The catalogue also features interviews with the artist, as well as essays by Guo Xiaoyan, Gao Shiming, Zhao Tingyang, Fan Di’an, and Chang Tsong-zung (Johnson Chang), complemented by the artist’s biography and plates of artworks.