Blue-Chip Artist's International Appeal Growing#
Already highly sought after by Chinese and international collectors, the work of leading Chinese contemporary photographer and video artist
Wang Qingsong#
(Jing Daily interview) continues to find new audiences with solo shows and inclusion in touring group exhibitions.
Wang Qingsong Fall 2012-Winter 2013 Group Exhibitions#
:
1. "Capital - Merchants in Venice and Amsterdam"#
Landesmuseum Zurich
September 14, 2012 – February 17, 2013
2. Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture#
The National Portrait Gallery and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Canberra, Australia
September 13, 2012 – February 17, 2013
3. “The History of Monuments”#
Singapore Management University concourse, the 3rd Singapore International Photo Festival
October 5 – November 17, 2012
In Wang Qingsong's own words:
In the summer of 2009, I continued shooting for fifteen days, and finished “The history of Monuments”. I invited about 200 models, used fifteen 8 by ten positive films to make a relief-like photo-mural, the size of which is 1.25 x 42 meters. This image is printed onto a whole roll of Kodak paper. Actually I don’t care about history. I am only interested in the extreme length of a photoe. If there is a 100-meter-long photo paper, I will be able to put in a lot more “valuable” stuff and create a 100-meter long photo.
The historical figures and contents in this photo work are not that important. In the “The History of Monuments”, I put in some famous people recorded in the official history of many civilizations, and also some small potatoes in the unofficial history. There is a lot of rubbish as well as some useful daily goods. These shattered pieces of people and objects construct a monumental history in my own mind. Maybe it is an unofficial part of the history in the standard of the official history, maybe vice versa.
4. “The 2nd West-China International Art Biennale#
Yinchuan Art Center, Ningxia Province
October 12, 2012 - January 12, 2013
Inspired by Van Gogh, who lived in southern France, Wang was invited to shoot a group portrait
of curators, photographers, museums curators, and writers for 2011 Recontres de la photographie in
Arles. He tailor-made all these hospital pajamas with the label of Van Gogh Hospital No.1 – No. 120, then staged the shooting in front of the town's landmark amphitheater. the monument in this nice
little southern town in France.
5. “The History of Monuments”#
MoCA Taipei plaza, Taipei, Taiwan
November 8, 2012 – February 8, 2013
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6. Perspectives 180: New Video From China#
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Houston, USA
November 6, 2012 - February 17, 2013
Upcoming Solo Exhibition#
:
Painting the Canvas, Oil on canvas, 2009-2012#
Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan
Opening November 10, 2012
