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HAN XIAO

Lives and works in Beijing, China
www.cnhanxiao.com

then lead the appearance reform, that is forming artificial human body.
Patients join in the surgery not for remedy but for reconstructing human
body. Human seeks surgery for body changing or materializing the body
not for spiritual excels. We put ourselves at heart of the value system
with two measures: the desire for superficial beauty or the immediate
responses for beautiful appearance; the other is satisfactions. In this
system, appearance centers the consumption world. They say everyone is
pursuing beauty. Body, value and beauty do not share the same priority in
history, but beauty and power are not short in human history. Appearance
is powerful, it is the fault of self-visualization.

Advances on surgery intensify the desire to change the body. As a profes-
sional doctor, they are familiar with the public desire and anxiety to beatify
their appearance, which serves him the standing point to his thoughts.
He made up his mind to find the reason and study the topics. As a rule,
human beings never stop studying the relationship between body and
mind and now we resort to art and even performance art. Hanxiao, with
 the help of performance art, questions the meaning of body by using the
PERFORMANCE ART: SELF-HAIR TRANSPARENT SURGERY
PERFORMANCE ART: CHEST ENLARGE SURGERY SERIES  body, rather than defining it. Therefore, Han is considering how much
his surgery could help in appearance improvement. Do the changes in a
part of body or gender reveal the meaning of human existence? Hanxiao
SURGERY & ART puzzled more with more surgeries and improved professional skills, but
Written by Chuncheng WANG his service quality cannot be compromised by his anxieties.

As art covers more and goes deeper than before, we come up with more Hanxiao is hesitating between the cause and effects like the surgery and
complex perceptions on the definition of art. Art is on longer what we the effect, the body and fate, life and value, which lead him to the art
know in the traditional way but includes new elements and expressing world. Why could art explore the meaning of body? Why could body be
ways. Art is an open concept and an access to various perspectives. the object of art? Why does behavior join in the performance art? The
interweave of body and fate touches upon the many-year-old confusing
Hanxiao is an excellent cosmetic doctor and successfully run his business point in the medicine world. When surgery becomes art, it enters ideo-
and earned sound reputation from the professional world. As a pioneer logical world and serves as the mean to get the meaning of life. Surgery
in the field, he is hardworking, amicable and respected, putting deep as performance art, allow Han to think over the position and meaning of
emotions toward business. In plus, he is enthusiastic in art practicing and body again and again, which is unique from other media. Surgery in the
creating, integrating his thoughts on life into his art. Art is another presen- form of art starts the long journey from body to mind, from material to
tation of life in Han’s world. Life cannot only be interpreted the existence value. Surgery demonstrates all kinds of issues and relations: body and
of body but stuff of all humanitarian and social issues. Therefore, art offers society, body and identity; body and art.
the largest room to think over and join in issues concerning plastic surgery.
Body, for male and female, is the object under rules. Surgery is the way to
In fact, Han’s surgery confirmed the possibilities of art and think over undertake these rules. Many years with surgery issues, Han is everything
body issues in the name of art. Surgery has a history of being a method to do with the causes and effects in surgery issues. When he undertook
to heal and remedy human beings, featured by complexities, accuracies the surgery in the form of art, he realized the reconstruction of power in
and advances. Because of it, we survive from sickness and enjoy longevity, body. Today, his performance art discloses the puzzle of body and serves
which is the nature of surgery. Sometimes, however, surgery entered the as access to the architecture of power via our true self.
esthetic world, where it does not aim at sickness but physical defects, and China Central Academy of Fine Arts | Sun. April 29, 2012

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