Lu Guang’s work covers a wide range of consequences due to China’s rapid industrialization. A reoccurring theme is that of ‘cancer villages’ in certain affected provinces, the negative environmental conditions such as water pollution and the effect of industrialization on Chinese countrysides and its people. Guang has stated that his choice of subjects is done to raise awareness in both China and on a global scale. More about Lu Guang http://bit.ly/1twa0wj
Hong Kong. Mon amour.
Ling Jian was born in the Shandong Province of China in 1963. He graduated from the Qinghua University Art College and has exhibited his work in Germany, Bangkok, Amsterdam, and Italy. Ling Jian’s art is neither westernized Chinese art nor orientalized western art but a carefully negotiated hybridization calibrated to the artist’s expressive concerns. More about Ling Jian http://bit.ly/1uELDQI
Sheng Qi is a Chinese performance artist and painter. He was one of the original founders of the Chinese performance art group, Concept 21. In 1989, in protest to the massacre at Tiananmen Square, he severed the pinkie finger of his left hand and buried it in a porcelain flowerpot which remained in Beijing during his subsequent exile in Europe. In 1999 he returned to Beijing but mostly lives in London since 2010. His prevelant themes are the body language and its culture. All his works are painted in black, grey and red. More about Sheng Qi at http://bit.ly/1Aev9Dm
New work from Omar Victor Diop, the Senegalese photographer behind the striking [re-] Mixing Hollywood (Onomollywood), Le Futur du Beau and Le Studio des Vanités projects, is always a cause for excitement. The artist cimes back this month with a photo series at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London. In a twelve-image set titled Project Diaspora, Diop showcases his penchant for vibrant colors and highly stylized portraits while again delving into the conversation about representation of Africans on the world stage. See more at http://bit.ly/1we57i5
Former architect and museum director, Chen Jiagang offers dazzling works mixing documentary and staged photography. His pictures paint the urban and social upheavals of contemporary China without artifice and with an undeniable subjectivity. Ruined cities, disfigured landscapes, abandoned factories or renaissance, scenes with deceptive appearances, all these places full of history and uncertainty are both documented and reinvented. He loves indeed to populate this apparent urban chaos with delicate female presences. Chen Jiagang captures the echo of a past life, of a forgotten memory with a necessary awareness. More about Chen Jiagang http://bit.ly/1uphPck
Chen Man is a Chinese fashion photographer who has produced numerous covers for Chinese and international fashion magazines and for major international companies. Her photos are widely exhibited globally. More about Chen Man http://bit.ly/1wz5l0I
Artist and designer based in Tokyo, Tomoko Takeda transforms literary masterpieces works in his series も の が た り の 断 片(“Story Fragments”). With a bright light on the shape and structure, Takeda cut and carved the pages of books to form complex sculptural objects. The design of each piece is related to the story of the book. By translating these famous novels into a relevant visual work, Takeda gives them a new dimension.
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