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• China, Contemporary, Photography

  Zhu Hao

  07.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  TOP TO BOTTOM, © Zhu Hao
  Zhu Hao’s images of the city are focused on the objects that we often walk pass unnoticed. As an acute and sensitive photographer, Zhu Hao is immersed in the so-called “intoxication evoked by the object being shot” (Jean Baudillard). With the help of photography, he has gone deeper and deeper […]

• China, Photography

  Liu Tong

  06.29.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Liu Tong has some interesting work up on his site. His series, Dream/Life, is a surreal collection of black and white images.

  TOP TO BOTTOM, from (”Dream/Life“)
  © Liu Tong
  Unfortunately, the links on his site are not functioning now. However, images for the series can still be viewed via the directory listing.

• Taiwan, Exhibitions, China, Art, Photography

  Germinators

  06.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Got this in my mail today for a visual art exhibition in New York. Unfortunately, I’m halfway across the globe!
  ChinaSquare Gallery New York is pleased to present Germinators, a group featuring Cao Jingping, Chen Wei, Li Jikai, Liao Yibai, Ma’chunfu, Qu Jiehen, Unmask, Wang Haiyang, Wang Tiantian, Wang Yaqiang, and Zhang Peng.
  Germinators includes the […]

• Exhibitions, China, Contemporary, Photography

  4

  06.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Good Night, New York
  © Miao Jiaxin
  4: Photo Group Show, features works by four Chinese-born, New York-based photographers - Zhang Wu, Miao Jiaxin, Zheng Yaohua and Wang Yiqun (whom I featured earlier in the week).
  The accompanying exhibition statement, Discomforting Anxieties, is a good read to find out more about the photographers and their works.
  Exhibition details:
  4: Photo […]

• China, Contemporary, Photography

  Wang Yiqun

  06.09.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Something odd to chase away the Monday blues for those of you half way around the world (it’s nearing midnight here).
  Wang Yiqun explores the boundary between beauty and horror with his photographs of faceless women in the series ‘My Beauty’.

  TOP TO BOTTOM. (from “My Beauty”)
  © Wang Yiqun
  From NetEase:
  Wang Yiqun’s works are full of narrative arrangements. […]

• China, Contemporary, Photography

  Shen Wei: Chinese Sentiment

  06.04.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Shen Wei just updated his portfolio with a work-in-progress, containing a mixture of portraits, still life and landscapes.

  Forbidden City, Beijing (from “Chinese Sentiment”), 2008
  © Shen Wei

  Lorence, Shanghai (from “Chinese Sentiment”), 2008
  © Shen Wei

  “God”, Huaxi, Guizhou Province (from “Chinese Sentiment”), 2008
  © Shen Wei
  I’m not so sure about the selection of images at the moment but it […]

• China, Contemporary, Photography

  CPU:798 - Zu Jing

  06.03.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Frivolous is the first solo show for Beijing-based Zu Jing at CPU:798, featuring two ongoing series, ‘Taxi Legs’ and ‘Blow Up’.
  ‘Taxi Legs’ presents the artist’s legs as their landscape upon which various objects from the artist’s immediate possessions are placed for our analysis…For the series ‘Blow Up’ Zu Jing snaps moments from every day […]

• China, Art, Contemporary, Photography

  Ma Liang / Maleonn

  05.19.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Ma Liang shoots intriguing set pieces that question our perception of reality and life’s many facets. He was one of China’s leading commercial directors before trading that life for photography. Since then, he has received international acclaim for his fantastical, albeit heavily edited works.

  Little Flagman, 2008
  © Ma Liang

  Nostalgia, 2006
  © Ma Liang

  Book of Taboo, 2005
  © Ma […]

• News, China

  Sichuan: Earthquake

  05.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Depressing news from China circulating the media about the earthquake that struck Sichuan province earlier today. More than 12,000 people dead and many more still stuck under rubble. The government is seeking aid from the international community, while rescue teams continue battling storms to save survivors.
  (via Reuters)

• China, Contemporary, Photography

  Liu Bolin

  04.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The individual ceases to exist in Liu Bolin’s Hiding in the City series.

  TOP TO BOTTOM, Hiding in the City
  © Liu Bolin
  China is now in a paradox of adopting capitalist values and economic dreams which exist within an anachronistic communist framework. Within this context of a desperate leap towards a “modern” future, Bolin suggests the disintegration […]

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