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Email PageSupernatural- China's Contemporary Photography
October 7, 2008- October 25, 2008
Reception: October 9, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cai Weidong, Chen Zhuo, Huang Keyi, Chen Weiqun, Jia Youguang, Li Wei, Liu Jin, Lu Xiaochuan, Qiu Zhen, Qu Yan, Wang Chuan, Xu Changchang, Yao Lu
ArtGate Gallery
547 W 27th StArtGate Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring the work of twelve contemporary Chinese photographers. This exhibition is curated by Chungchen Wang and SoYeon (Sylvia) Kim. It will be up from October 7th through October 25th, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 9th from 6-8 P.M.
Many of the artists work in a style of magical realism, which lends itself well to dealing with social contradictions embedded in modern Chinese culture. In China’s push toward a manufactured cultural homogeneity, the rapid social and material changes often produce alienation and a sense of loss of reality. The fantastic, eccentric imagery in the work of many of these photographers captures their sense of disorientation.
Whether playing with gravitational physics (as in the otherwise naturalistic photographs of Li Wei) or with supernatural storytelling (as in the intensely personal allegories of Liu Jin), the exhibition sizzles with conceptual imagery. The outlook is not always playful: Lu Xiaochuan uses skeletons to construct tableaus that mourn the extinction of a way of life.
Cai Weidong’s iconoclastic send-ups of western art history and mythology use Asiatic stand-ins to raise the question of relevance. He seeks to use photography in rediscovering his Chinese artistic heritage. But other artists capture the widespread cultural frenzy for conspicuous consumption, for example, in the sensuous photographs of Wang Chuan or the feverish creations of Chen Zhuo & Huang Keyi. Xu Changchang
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