Wang NIngde, Contemporary Chinese Large Scale Photograph B&W Print Photo "Some Days" Ed 3/10, 2003

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Wang Ningde (China, b. 1972) "Some days no. 23". Size: 48'' x 64.75'', 122 x 164 cm (image); 52'' x … Read more Wang Ningde (China, b. 1972) "Some days no. 23". Size: 48'' x 64.75'', 122 x 164 cm (image); 52'' x 69'', 132 x 175 cm (frame). Chromogenic print (c-print). 2003. Signed. Number 3/10. Wang Ningde's Some Days series is an astonishingly singular vision. The 75 black-and-white photographs, taken between 1999 and 2009, feature children, parents and Communist soldiers, all with eyes closed or facing away from the camera. The pictures, which have numbers rather than names, hint at family and historical narratives, and are streaked with melancholy loneliness – not only are the subjects apart from each other, but they're apart from the viewer, as if lost in a dream of the past. Ningde was born in 1972 in Liaoning province and graduated from the photography department of the Lu Xun Academy of Art in 1995. After graduating, he moved to southern China where he worked for a decade as a photojournalist during the period of China's explosive economic and cultural transformation. Departing from documentary photography, Wang returned to his northern hometown to began his Some Days series, which he worked on between 1999 and 2009. With his striking black and white photographs, the artist has been able to capture the tension between an ever-changing contemporary China and the always-present memory of the Cultural Revolution. As an artist who works not only in traditional photography but also more recently in video and installation artwork, Wang Ningde attempts to decipher and answer the unanswerable, peeling back the layers of memory and the social facade, to probe and expose the more complicated and perhaps disconcerting issues of a personal past or humanity's collective psyche. WANG NINGDE Born May 1972 in Kuandian County, Shenyang Province, China Graduated from the Photography Department at Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in 1995 Select Solo Exhibitions 2018 Form of Light, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, USA 2017 No Name, PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco, Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, USA 2015 Form of Light, Paramount Pictures Studios, Los Angeles, USA 2014 Form of Light 1, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China 2010 Some Days, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France 2007 Photographs of Wang Ningde, SF Camerawork Sponsored by Andy Warhol Foundation, San Francisco, USA 2006 The Photographs of Wang Ningde, The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK Some Days, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA Beyond the Realm of the Soul, Dimensions Art Center, Beijing, China Select Group Exhibitions 2019 A Fairy Tale in Red Times: White Rabbit Collection, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 2017 Simultaneous Eidos: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Troposphere: Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction: Contemporary Photography from China and Germany, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany Fourth Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts: Stress Field, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China Working on History: Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Light Color Boundaries, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China 2016 Out of Obscurity, Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom Flying High: Young Chinese Photography, Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Projection: Photographic Assertions, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany The Time is Out of Joint, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea 2015 Beyond Image: Laboratory of Light, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China Unfamiliar Asia: The Second Beijing Photo Biennial, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China LEAP Pavilion: The Coming Image, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China Re-Exposure: 12 Chinese Contemporary Photographic Artists, Poly Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2007 Aqua Art Miami, Limn gallery, Miami, FL, USA Biennale Photoquai, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France Toshihiro Yashiro & Wang Ningde, Keumsan Gallery, Beijing, China 2005 Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome, Italy Dream Producers (III/VI) -The Imaginary Museum of Chinese Contemporary Art, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Living in Interesting Times - A Decade of New Chinese Photography, Tel-Hai Industrial Park, Israel 2004 'Where Are You Heading Mother China?', Tokyo Ginza Guardian Garden Salon, Tokyo, Japan Elsewhere, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Reality Spells —Exhibition of Conceptual Photography Since the 90s, Central Library Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Between Reality and Memory, New School University, New York, USA 2003 Alternative Modernity, X-Ray Art Center, Beijing, China From China Contemporary Art Photography, Aarhus Kunstbygning og Galleri Image, Denmark A Strange Heaven- Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic An Interesting and Singular Walk, Island of France Photography Center, Paris, France 2002 The City That Can Not Be Seen, Xinguang Photo Gallery, Shanghai, China 2000 The Younger Generation and the New Century, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles White Rabbit Collection, Sydney Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui The Red Mansion Foundation, London Franks-Suss Collection, London Dr. Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland Burger Collection, Hong Kong "Wang Ningde: Dreaming Reality," ZOOM, July-August 2005, p. 21"Art in China of the 1990s and the beginning of the millennium is increasingly marked by a profound diversity. There is realism, academicism, expressionist styles, abstract compositions and a mixing of media, all existing side by side. There are equally great works being produced in oil on canvas, ink on paper, in printmaking, sculpture and photography. As the outlook of artists matures, it loses none of its vital impetus. What could be more fascinating to all who seek the thrill of art at the cutting edge?" - Karen Smith, China's Avant Garde, 2006 See less