798 PHOTO GALLERY
PURE WESTERN QING TOMBS - THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF WANG QIAN (solo)
OVERVIEW
| Date | ... closedAug 20, 2011 - Sep 18, 2011 |
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| Venue(s) |
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) |
| Curator(s) | Chen Guangjun |
| Artist(s) | Wang Qian |
| Organizer(s) |
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) |
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EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
About Pure Western Qing Tombs - The Photography of Wang Qian“Tigers and dragons surrounded thousands of years, gods and ghosts hovering every night.” The Western Qing Tombs, one of the royal tombs of the last feudal dynasty, are located on plains surrounded by mountains. They have logical composition, complete system and grand scale. They are like a glittering diamond inlaid in China.
Shooting in the Western Qing Tombs is like walking between life and death. While traveling through the Sacred Way and stone archways of Tailing Tomb, the natural granophyre of Changling Tomb, nanmu palace of Muling Tomb and fog-locked Chongling Tomb---the art of architecture, the value of existence, the rise and fall of history, the contrast of life and death and the fight between vision and thought are like raging tides, crashing and rushing. It is like a huge hand to illustrate, clip, rehearse and perform the past and the present by montage technique.
I am fascinated by the history between mountains and water, the quintessence of Chinese architectural art and contrast of magnificence and decline. In less than two years, I traveled to and fro more than 50 times in the Western Qing Tombs and walked through historic relics. I applied 8*10 cameras and shot here. The special charm of white and black films washed away the disturbance of the earthliness. The bricks and walls demonstrate the inspiration of history. The Pure Western Qing Tombs make my emotion flow and integrate imagination and reality into one.
In my humble opinion, only gross format cameras can depict the grandeur of the Western Qing Tombs. Only the simplest black, white and grey can romance the permanence and glory of Chinese culture. It exerts the greatest strains upon imagination and enlightens speechlessly to each visitor. Shooting in the Western Qing Tombs, speech is more than it is and even thinking is a barrier. The antenna of inspiration is delicate and dragging me to travel in the world of existence and void, to shoot again and again. Facing the Western Qing Tombs, I shoot without invention, and try to turn it into eternity.
2011 (3)
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Pure Western Qing Tombs - The Photography of Wang Qian
(solo)
2011.08.20 - 2011.09.18
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
798 Photo Gallery Historical Retrospective Part I
(group)
2011.02.18 - 2011.03.31
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
Memories of Red - Somewhere and Nowhere - The Photography of Nochioka, Yoshinobu
(solo)
2011.01.08 - 2011.01.28
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(2)
2010 (6)
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Take Portraits of Them - Li Donghan Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2010.12.05 - 2011.01.07
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(5) -
Take portraits of them - The Photography of Li Donghan
(solo)
2010.12.05 - 2011.01.07
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(2) -
798 Photo Gallery@Paris Photo 2010
(art fair)
2010.11.18 - 2010.11.22
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (organiser) -
Another Episode - The Photography of Liu Lijie
(solo)
2010.09.04 - 2010.11.04
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
My Bride and I-Satan's Wedding
(solo)
2010.06.05 - 2010.08.06
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(1) -
Linger - The Photography of Yu Xiao, Liu Xiaofang and Song Shimin
(group)
2010.03.06 - 2010.04.16
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(3)
2009 (4)
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798 Photo Gallery@Paris Photo 2009
(art fair)
2009.11.19 - 2009.11.22
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (organiser) -
Fang Shengyi's Photography - "Insignificant Nobility"
(solo)
2009.11.01 - 2009.12.01
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(11)(20) -
Landscape - Contemporary Photography Group Exhibition
(group)
2009.08.01 - 2009.09.11
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(13)(3) -
Painting on Photo
(solo)
2009.04.25 - 2009.05.25
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(8)
2007 (14)
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The Photography of Ma Hongjie and Huang Qingjun
(group)
2007.12.22 - 2008.01.22
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Family Stuff
(group)
2007.12.22 - 2008.01.31
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
The Photography of Chen Nong Photographs by Chen Nong
(solo)
2007.10.20 - 2007.11.16
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(22) -
Marilyn Monroe and America in the 1960s Photographs by Lawrence Schiller
(solo)
2007.09.29 - 2007.10.20
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(14) -
That space¡ That time Photographs by Lu Xiaochuan
(solo)
2007.09.08 - 2007.09.28
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(19) -
Scenery-Liang Weizhou photography Exhibition
(solo)
2007.08.18 - 2007.09.07
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(25) -
Wall Photographs by Wang Zi
(solo)
2007.07.21 - 2007.08.10
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
The night you don Photographs by Wu Qi
(solo)
2007.06.23 - 2007.07.23
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
Chinese Interiors
(group)
2007.06.02 - 2007.06.22
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(8) -
Chinese Interior Photographs by Robert van der Hilst
(solo)
2007.06.02 - 2007.06.22
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Reality and Fabrication
(group)
2007.04.21 - 2007.05.11
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(15) -
The Photography of Wang Ningde David Xing Danwen Photographs by Liu Dawei Wang Ningde Xing Danwen
(group)
2007.04.21 - 2007.05.11
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
The Photography of Shi Guangzhi
(solo)
2007.03.31 - 2007.04.20
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)(28) -
The Zoo At Night Photographs by Yan Changjiang
(solo)
2007.03.03 - 2007.03.30
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1)
2006 (11)
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Chinese On The Train Photographs by Wang Fuchun
(solo)
2006.11.18 - 2006.12.08
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Architecture of Density Photographs by Michael Wolf
(solo)
2006.10.07 - 2006.10.27
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
Beijing' s Yesterday Photographs by Zhu Xianmin
(solo)
2006.09.16 - 2006.10.05
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Workers
(solo)
2006.08.26 - 2006.09.14
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
Workers Photographs by Lin Yonghui
(solo)
2006.08.26 - 2006.09.14
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Weng Naiqiang Solo Exhibition
(solo)
2006.07.29 - 2006.08.24
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)(1) -
Images Of The Cultural Revolution
(solo)
2006.07.29 - 2006.08.24
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Archives on Orphans Photographs by Jiang Jian
(solo)
2006.07.01 - 2006.07.27
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
CHURCH 1966 Photographs by Wang Duanyang
(solo)
2006.05.20 - 2006.05.31
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Time Photographs by Wu Jialin
(solo)
2006.04.22 - 2006.05.18
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
"Alan ross photography exhibition" Photographs by Alan ross
(solo)
2006.02.18 - 2006.03.24
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)
2005 (3)
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100 Years of the Palace Museum Photographs by Hou Yuanchao
(solo)
2005.11.27 - 2005.12
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
"A Heavy Farewell" Photographs by Su Zhigang
(solo)
2005.10.08 - 2005.11
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Killing Legend Photographs by Han Lei
(solo)
2005.04.23 - 2005.05.20
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)
2004 (5)
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"Catholic in the country side" Photographs by Yang YanKang
(solo)
2004.12.25 - 2005.02
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
"The Years of the Culture Revolution " Photographs by Xiao Zhuang
(solo)
2004.10.09 - 2004.11
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
"I want school" Photographs by Xie hailong
(solo)
2004.08.21 - 2004.09
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
Between two worlds Photographs by Susanna Scherer
(solo)
2004.03.13 - 2004.03.24
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
"Mao on the wall " Photographs by Wang Tong
(solo)
2004.02.14 - 2004.03.13
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)
2003 (2)
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Still The Time Photographs by Wang Shilong
(solo)
2003.09.27 - 2003.11
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798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser) -
"Miners" Photographs by Song Chao
(solo)
2003.08.23 - 2003.09.12
... closed
798 Photo Gallery (Beijing, China) (venue / organiser)
