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Wang Qingsong - The History of Monuments (Detail), 2010

Wang Qingsong

L’HISTOIRE DES MONUMENTS

Since August 2009, I started to work with two hundred models over fifteen days, shooting the 42-metre-long History of Monuments. This work is my reflection on what is told about civilisations, beauties, virtues, standards and norms The models are smeared with mud and placed into the carved out contours of the photo backdrop. Chinese traditions are handed down from generation to generation with many documents on the historical figures, poetries, literature, dramas, etc. Often the powerful people like to summarize their achievements during their reign times. So each dynasty has its interpretations of its dynasty and the former

dynasties. It is undeniable that many such versions are misguided.


Wang Qingsong


Prints by Picto, Paris.

Exhibition produced with the support of BMW.


www.wangqingsong.com

Wang Qingsong

Born in 1966 in the Heilongjiang Province, China. Lives and works in Beijing.


Wang Qingsong worked for eight years as a painter working in oil. He was accepted into Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. After graduation, he moved to Beijing. Witnessing the drastic transformations affecting this big city, he found that paint and brush failed to capture the dramatic speed of modernization, with the influx of new ideas and consumerism. In 1996, he switched to photography, a better tool to get hold of the tempo and ethos of urban cities, using it to stage large-scale tableaux vivants. His photo work, like pieces concentrating a multitude of observations, vividly depicts the current China in his mind, referring to many unsatisfactory sections in this blindfolded chase for urbanization.

Église des Trinitaires

July 4th - September 4th


10:00 - 19:00


5 euros