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Opening of 'Immeasurable', the 8th Three Shadows Photography Award
Exhibition, 9 April 2016 (JBT©20160409073)
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'Immeasurable', the 8th Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition opened on 9 April at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Caochangdi, Beijing, and will continue until 3 June 2016.
It's an impressive show, as usual, and presented to a high
level under curator Chen Shen, it deserves to be widely seen. Internationally,
not just throughout China, because it is hard to imagine seeing a better range
of work to reflect what is happening in Chinese photography today. Or, to be more
precise, to reflect what Chinese photographers are doing in and out of China, because
several of the exhibitors actually live outside mainland China.
The winner of the 2016
Shisheido Prize, Yan Wang Preston, for example, has worked and studied in
England since 2005. Her striking 'Mother River' (the Yangtse) project is being
realised as a PhD project at Plymouth University in south west England. Nine of
the 25 finalists have studied outside of China (France, Germany, the UK and US.)
Another studied and lives in Taipei, and one lives in the U.S.
Only 25 artists were chosen from 271 candidates, so the
standard of work is very high and richly diverse. The work of many of the
candidates who missed out must have also been of a high quality, so the judges,
"after intense deliberation" certainly had their work cut out.
The 2016 Award finalists were Chen Wenjun & Jiang
Yanmei, Dong Yuxiang, Gao Lei, Gao Yutao, Guo Guozhu, Guo Yilin, Huang Yang,
Huang Zhenqiang (Dennis Wong), Huang Zhenwei, Huang Zhenqiang, Jiang Sheng
& Xu Xiaodong & Xie Shaojie, Leong Chong Lao, Lam Pok Yin Jeff &
Chong Ng, Liu Shuwei, Luo Zhizhong, Pu Yun, Qian Ruya, Wang Jiping, Wang Lei,
Wang Yan [Preston], Xin Hong’an, Yang Wenbin, Ying Chaoxu, Zeng Rui, Zhi
Leiying, Zhu Liyue.
This year, the international jury consisted of Quentin
Bajac, Chief Curator of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Satoshi
Machiguchi, Director and Designer of MATCH, Tokyo; RongRong, Founder and Director of Three
Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing; Philip Tinari, Director of the Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing; and Wu Hung, Professor, and Director of the Center
for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, Illinois.
Their
chosen 2016 Three Shadows Photography Award winners, Lam Pok Yin Jeff & Chong Ng (aka Lin Boyan & Huang Chengcong) - shared
what is considered China's premier photography prize of RMB 80,000 (around US
$12,300), for their series, 'The Untimely Apparatus of Two Amateur Photographers'. And the 2016 Shisheido Photographer Prize awarded to Yan Wang
Preston for her 'Mother River' series was RMB 20,000 (just over US $3000).
Immeasurable. The 2016 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition book is a handsome and useful book available for RMB 78 (about $US12.00). At 180 pages, in their 20x20cm series format, it illustrates roughly half of the works in the exhibiton. It includes impressions by Philip Tinari and Satoshi Machiguchi, from the all-male jury, as well as an introduction. These, as are the brief biographies and statements of intention, along with the juror's biographies, are all in English as well as Chinese. Which is another compelling reason why their exhibitions and books should be toured.
Contact details: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre,
Caochangdi 155A, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015, P.R. China. Email: info@threeshadows.cn
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| Three Shadows 8th Photography Award Exhibition prize giving (JBT©20160409067) |
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| Lineup left to right: Chen Shen, curator and MC, AWARD WINNERS, Satoshi Machiguchi, Wu Hung, Quentin Bajac, Philip Tinari, RongRong, and inri (JBT©20160409067 - detail) |
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| 2016 Shisheido Photographer Prize winner, Yan Wang Preston discusses her work for her 'Mother River' (Yangtze) project. (JBT©20160409190) |
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| Viewers of work by Lam Pok Yin & Chong Ng, the winners of the Three Shadows 8th Photography Award Exhibition. Detail (JBT©20160409069) |
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International
Jury Talk Series
A series of 40-minute talks preceded the 3pm opening of the
Award exhibition. The talks took place in the 3+ Gallery, with over 100 people
in attendance, surrounded by RongRong and Inri's large prints relating to the
construction of Three Shadows art centre.
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| Chen Shen introducing Keiko Toyoda, Shiseido, at Three Shadows international jury talk (JBT©20160409017 ) |
Keiko
Toyoda, Curator of Japan's Shiseido's Corporate Culture Department illustrated
her company's longstanding involvement in promoting the arts. They started an
art gallery along with the cosmetics empire in Tokyo in 1928. Shiseido, she
said, considers making cosmetics as an art, and she showed a slide of their
founding director with his camera. They have presented photography from
numerous countries and see the promotion of art as part of the "virtuous
cycle" that is an essental aspect of their company's culture, she said.
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| Chen Shen introducing Quentin Bajac, MoMA, Three Shadows international jury talk,Beijing_detail (JBT©20160409021) |
Quentin
Bajac, Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA in New York, spoke about
photography at the Museum today, briefly touching on its history since 1937,
and showing an impression of the distictly phallic building extension planned
for 2020. He showed images of different exhibition designs, mentioning the increase
in multi-media presentations, and the Museum's broadening international
collecting and exhibiting policy. Sculpure is often being included with the
photograph displays, along with film and video, he indicated. And Chinese
photography was not being ignored.
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| Satoshi Machiguchi, designer. Three Shadows international jury talk _JBT©20160409027) |
Bajac was followed by Satoshi
Machiguchi, Art Director and Designer of MATCH and Company, Tokyo. An
outstanding designer, judged by the books he has done for Three Shadows, he
spoke, without illustrations, in Japanese, which was translated into Chinese
but not English. I enjoyed watching his flamboyant figure but don't know what
he said, or how many in the growing audience found it relevant to their
interests?
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| Wu Hung, University of Chicago, Three Shadows International Jury talk_detail (JBT©20160409029) |
The final speaker, Professor Wu Hung, from the University of
Chicago is an authority on the history of photography in China who I
particularly wanted to hear. He is an animated speaker, but did not speak in
English, His bilingual digital slides, however, were well annotated, so it was
not so difficult to follow his main argument about how the inscriptions in early
Chinese portraits added vital ingredient of subjectivity, which with
commissioned portraits, made the images near self-portraits even though the
sitter was not the actual photographer. His argument centred on significant
portraits of Wang Yi'an who arranged to
have himself photographed before and after to commemorate the cutting of his
queue (pigtail) in 1912 to signify the toppling of the Qing Dynasty and
foundation of modern China. And he compared the use of mirrors to show front
and back views (not that uncommon) with "similar" images by Lady
Harwarden, and Erb Bunnag whose work I did not know.
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More images of the Three Shadows 2016 Award Exhibition 'Immeasurable' and opening events
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| A glimpse of a recent show at New York's Museum of Modern Art, given by Quentin Bajac, their Chief Photography Curator, Three Shadows international jury talk, 9 April 2016 detail (JBT©20160409022) |
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Wu Hung announcing the winner/s of the 8th Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Caochangdi, 9 April 2016. (JBT©20160409059)
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Opening of 'Immeasurable', the 8th Three Shadows Photography Award
Exhibition, 9 April 2016 (JBT©20160409073)
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The Exhibition
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| Guo Guozhu: The Entrance Hall. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Guo Guozhu: The Entrance Hall. Three Shadows Photography
Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Lam Pok Yin & Chong Ng, The Untimely Apparatus of Two amateur Photograpers. Three Shadows 8th Photography Award Exhibition. (JBT©20160409069) |
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Lam Pok Yin & Chong Ng, The Untimely Apparatus of Two amateur Photograpers. Three Shadows 8th Photography Award Exhibition. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows.)
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| Wong Chun Keung: Inexperienced Landscape. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Wong Chun Keung: Inexperienced Landscape. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016
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| Wong Chun Keung: Inexperienced Landscape. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Wong Chun Keung: Inexperienced Landscape. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Zeng Rui: Pantheism. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Zeng Rui: Pantheism. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Gao Yutao. Two and a half holy things. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Gao Yutao. Two and a half holy things. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Gao Yutao. Two and a half holy things. (Detail) Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016
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Liu Shuwei: Visible Darkness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition.
Beijing, 2016
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Liu Shuwei: Visible Darkness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition.
Beijing, 2016 (photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Qian Ruya: (Self-portraits). Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Qian Ruya: (Self-portraits). Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Qian Ruya: (Self-portraits). Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows.)
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| Xin Hong'an. Zhongnan. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Xin Hong'an. Zhongnan. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows.)
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| Zhu Liyue: Wormholes and the memory traveler. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Zhu Liyue: Wormholes and the memory traveler. Three Shadows Photography
Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Huang Yang: Grief over the Departed - the Proven Past. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Huang Yang: Grief over the Departed - the Proven Past. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Zhi Leiying: Pixel. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Zhi Leiying: Pixel. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Zhi Leiying: Pixel. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Zhi Leiying: Pixel. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Wang Lei: Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Wang Lei: Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Wang Lei: Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Guo Yilin: Still Life.Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Guo Yilin: Still Life.Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Dong Yuxiang: T01_[Z32.45.37] - T06_[UN.1-7]. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Dong Yuxiang: T01_[Z32.45.37] - T06_[UN.1-7]. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Dong Yuxiang: T01_[Z32.45.37] - T06_[UN.1-7]. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Dong Yuxiang: T01_[Z32.45.37] - T06_[UN.1-7]. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Pu Yun: Altitude 1947. Detail of moving panorama. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Pu Yun: Altitude 1947. Detail of moving panorama. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Pu Yun with his exhibition Altiude 1947. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Ying Chaoxu: The Traces races of Water seeping through the Leaky Wall. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Ying Chaoxu: The Traces races of Water seeping through the Leaky Wall. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Ying Chaoxu: The Traces races of Water seeping through the Leaky Wall (detail of large print). Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Leong Chong Lao: Objects of Nothingness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Leong Chong Lao: Objects of Nothingness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Luo Zhizhong: To Yesterday. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Luo Zhizhong: To Yesterday. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Luo Zhizhong: To Yesterday. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Luo Zhizhong: To Yesterday. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Yang Wenbin: Digital Light Trio. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Yang Wenbin: Digital Light Trio. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Yang Wenbin: Digital Light Trio. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Chen Wenjun & Jiang Yanmei: Me and Me. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Chen Wenjun & Jiang Yanmei: Me and Me. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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| Yan Wang Preston: Mother River. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy of Three Shadows) |
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Yan Wang Preston: Mother River. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016
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Jiang Sheng / Xu Xiaodong / Xie Shaojie: The Sheltered Deities. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016. (Photograph courtesy Three Shadows)
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Jiang Sheng / Xu Xiaodong / Xie Shaojie: The Sheltered Deities. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016
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| Jiang Sheng/ Xu Xiaodong / Xie Shaojie: The Sheltered Deities. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Gao Lei: Exile of Consciousness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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| Gao Lei: Exile of Consciousness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Gao Lei discussing his work, Exile of Consciousness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016
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| Huang Zhenwei: Timeless Boundary. Exile of Consciousness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Huang Zhenwei: Timeless Boundary. Exile of Consciousness. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016
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| Wang Jiping.: A Peek into Words. Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Beijing, 2016 |
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Three Shadows 'Chinese Photobook Collection' and revamped +3 Gallery and bookshop revamp
Saturday 9 April was also the debut for Three Shadows' Chinese Photobook Collection. In addition to the books, which included platinum prints editions, a special exhibtion, Luo Bonian & Yang Fudong was opened on the same day in a revamped +3 Gallery space. What was the bookshop and small cafe is now being used solely to promote and sell limited edition artists's books, Three Shadows own publications, and photographs. Their bookshop has been relocated to their new Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Xiamen, Rong Rong's home town in Fujian Province, where they have also established an annual festival.
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Introduction to 'The Chinese Photobook Collection' exhibition of work by Luo Bonian and Yang Fudong. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2016
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Luo Bonian, from 'The Chinese Photobook Collection'. Published by Three Shadows
Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2016. Designed by Satoshi Machiguchi |
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Yang Fudong, from 'The Chinese Photobook Collection.' Published by Three Shadows
Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2016. Designed by Satoshi Machiguchi |
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'The Chinese Photobook Collection. Display of Platinum print editon Luo Bonian, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2016
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| Exhibition of large new prints of work by Luo Bonian. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2016 |
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Large new print of work by Luo Bonian, 1930-1940 from exhibition at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, April 2016. (For some inexplicable reason these enlarged versions of Bonian's work were not spotted to remove dust marks and abrasions, as they were for the smaller portfolio set.)
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Exhibition of work by Luo Bonian and Yang Fudong. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2016
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| Yang Fudong. Exhibition of work from 'The Chinese Photobook Collection' launched at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 9 April 2006. |
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Three Shadows +3 Gallery and bookshop revamp
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| Revamped Three Shadows +3 Gallery bookshop, April 2016 (JBT©20160409242) |
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| Revamped Three Shadows +3 Gallery bookshop, April 2016. The first two books, Luo Bonian, and Yang Fudong, in the Three Shadows Photobook Collection series on display with prints by Yangon the wall. (JBT©20160409244) |
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| Revamped Three Shadows +3 Gallery bookshop, April 2016.(JBT©20160409245) |
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| Three Shadows bookshop as it was in July 2014. (JBT©20140726002) |
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