Offering, Qingsong

Wang Qingsong

B. China, 1966

The Works

10

1

Wang Qingsong

Requesting Buddha Series no. 1

1999

Archival pigment print

2

Wang Qingsong

Offering

2003

Archival pigment print

3

Wang Qingsong

China Mansion

2003

Archival pigment print

4

Wang Qingsong

Red Peony, White Peony and Frosted Peony

2003

Archival pigment print mounted on aluminium

5

Wang Qingsong

Dream of Migrants

2005

Archival pigment print

6

Wang Qingsong

Home

2005

Archival pigment print

7

Wang Qingsong

Moma Studio

2005

Archival pigment print, printed 2015

8

Wang Qingsong

Romantique

2003

Archival pigment print

9

Wang Qingsong

One World, One Dream

2014

Archival pigment print

10

Wang Qingsong

Debacle

2009

Archival pigment print

Wang Qingsong

B. China1966

wang qingsong

B. China1966

Biography

Wang Qingsong is a leading figure in the revolution in Chinese photography. He constructs highly staged photographs that explore the influence of Western consumer culture in China. In more recent works he has explored political and social themes including the struggles of the country’s migrant population and Chinese diplomacy. Qingsong’s photographs are known for their epic scale, deep symbolism and careful staging, which can sometimes take several weeks and involve up to 300 extras. Although photography is his main medium, he has explored performance and video art in more recent years.

Qingsong’s photography is influenced by the visual vocabulary of western advertising, as well as propaganda imagery of the Chinese Communist regime’s Cultural Revolution. The artist harks back to scroll painting, an ancient Chinese artform, as well as European old master paintings. 

Wang Qingsong was born in north-eastern China in 1966. Qingsong studied in the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been presented at prestigious galleries, museums and art fairs across the globe including the 55th Venice Biennale China Pavilion, Italy, the International Centre of Photography, New York, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the 42nd Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, the Daegu Art Museum, Seoul, MOCA, Taipei, the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

Discover

3

Exhibitions

1

Requesting-Buddha-Series-No-1-1999-by-Wang-Qingsong

Wang Qingsong: Debacle

21.8 - 23.102015

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