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| Curator | Karen Smith |
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| Dates | 2015.9.6-11.30 |
| Opening | 2015.9.8 |
| Venue | SCôP |
| Organizer | SCôP |
“Grain” to “pixel” describes an arc of time stretching back almost one hundred years and that marks a period in which photography entered China as a phenomenon and was transformed. Ordinary people today consume a multitude of images daily. Photographic images have an exclusive monopoly on communicating creativity, artistic expression and the experiences of culture, but the embrace of photography in general is an extraordinary phenomenon in China.
Does this account for the diversity of content, style and technique of which photography’s transformation in China is comprised? “Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China” is a survey of works from 70 Chinese photographers that maps the pulse of its creative energy in China: A fashionable Chinese woman cycling pass Tiananmen exalts the new energy of a resurging People’s Republic; a melancholy portrait of a young couple waiting by a pier captures the melancholy of departure, the anxiety at moving to an unfamiliar city to start a new life; vintage photographs from John Thompson, Lang Jingshan and ZhuangXueben provide hints of the earliest foreign and homegrown visions of life in China; patriots like Wu Yinxian, ShaFei, Jiang Shaowu and WengNaiqiang gave the PRC some of its most memorable propaganda; social documentary from the 1980s onwards from photographers like Lv Nan, Zhang Hai’er, Han Lei and Li Qiang tackled new situations encountered by a society rocked by economic change; Wang Qingsong to Chen Man to Maleonn illustrate how art and internationalization, China’s new age of connectedness to the global village is driving photography in myriad contemporary directions.
“Grain to Pixel” was conceived by Liu Heung Shing and is curated by Karen Smith, who brings expertise accrued through 25 years of observing art and photography in China and explaining it to both domestic and international audiences. XuJianing, an expert on the history of photography in China, has contributed to the exhibition catalogue on the pre-1949 Chinese photography.
刘香成 LIU Heung Shing 在天安门广场前取下毛主席像 Taking Down Mao in Tiananmen Square 1980 15×23cm 明胶银盐 Silver gelatin print
陈漫 CHEN Man 万小姐好好学习 Miss Wan Studies Hard 2011 50×74cm 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
封岩 FENG Yan 迷幻的竹子 10 Psychedelic Bamboo 10 2011 120×90cm 收藏级喷墨打印博物馆蚀版 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle museum etching paper
洪磊 HONG Lei 紫禁城的秋天之二 Autumn in the Forbidden City, No.2 1997 61×75cm 彩色打印 C-print
李楠 LI Nan 禽流感时期合同制工人 Contract Workers During Avian Influenza 2004 60×60cm 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
李樯 LI Qiang 骡子和女娃 Mule and Girl 1984 40×40cm 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
林然 LIN Ran 菊花石 稻城卍石 Chrysanthemum Stone 2012 50×60cm 铂钯丝绸 Platinum palladium silk
王庆松 WANG Qingsong 跟你学 Follow you 2013 90×150cm 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
马良 MALEONN 西游记 Journey to the West 2008 135×90cm (×3) 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
张巍 ZHANG Wei 奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 2013 60×48cm 艺术微喷 Giclee print
杨福东 YANG Fudong 国际饭店 No.1 International Hotel No.1 2010 180×120cm 黑白喷墨打印 B&W inkjet print
张雅心 ZHANG Yaxin 智取威虎山 A scene from Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy 1971 44×80cm 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
池磊 CHI Lei (Chili) 我忘了你是谁 I Forgot Who You Are 2013 80×60cm 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
荣荣(卢志荣) Rong Rong (LU Zhirong) 东村 No.19 East of Village No. 19 1994 60×50cm 明胶银盐 Silver gelatin print
宋朝 SONG Chao 矿工 #08 Coal Miners #08 2002 50×40cm 明胶银盐 Silver gelatin print
邢丹文 XING Danwen 都市演绎,图 14 Urban Fiction, No.14 150 2006 80×101.3cm 艺术微喷 Giclee print
张海儿 ZHANG Hai'er 章子怡,北京 Zhang Ziyi, Beijing 1999 60×42.5cm 收藏级喷墨打印 Archival inkjet print
Photography from the 20th Century: The Private Collection of Jin Hongwei
2015 ART WEST BUND
Hu Xiaoyuan: Paths in the Sand
Women in Abstraction
Chen We: Make me illusory
The Voice of Things-Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection vol.II
Living Images
Laurent Grasso
Yu Ji Spontaneous Decisions II
Kandinsky The Pioneer of Abstract Art
Chen Fei: Morning Market
Works on Paper
