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Founded in December 2006 by Flore Sassigneux and Romain Degoul with the strong will to create the first space in China dedicated exclusively to modern and contemporary world photography.
Our gallery, located in Dashanzi 798 Art Factory has ambitions to become an essential link between Paris, a capital of world photography, and Beijing, an emerging contributor to the international art world.
The project’s primary focus is to realise two simple objectives:
To become a platform for western photographers in a country where their names and works are hardly known and displayed.
To internationally promote works from a new generation of talented Chinese photographers.
This is why, in addition to the local exposure of its represented artists,
Paris – Beijing Photo Gallery will publish books and catalogues on the artist’s behalf, as well as taking part in the foremost international photographic festivals, biennials and art fairs.
Ultimately, Paris - Beijing Photo Gallery’s main desire is to create a bridge between the east and the west and to initiate a free flowing dialogue between photographers with different views and cultural experience. Solo exhibitions as well as thematic collaborative exhibitions will be displayed as a way for western and Chinese photographers to confront and exchange their unique points of view.
巴黎·北京摄影空间由带着强烈意愿在中国开创第一个以呈现现代和当代世界摄影作品为主的展厅的法国人花儿(Flore Sassigneux)和陆楠(Romain Degoul)创立于2006年12月。
我们的展厅位于将世界摄影之都-巴黎和充满世界艺术气息的北京紧密连接的纽带-大山子798艺术区。
我们的首要计划是要实现两个目标：
成为一个为著名 西方摄影师在中国展现他们作品的展台， 并扩大在中国的知名 度。
促进和帮助有才华的中国新一代摄影师实现作品国际化。
这就是为什么，除了组织展览以外，巴黎·北京摄影空间也会为艺术家们出版作品集和图册，而且最主要的是会参加国际摄影节(International photograph festivals)，和国际艺术节(international art fears 和 biennals)。
最后，巴黎·北京摄影空间的主要愿望是建立一座连接东西方摄影师间的桥梁，使持有不同观点和文化的摄影师们可以自由地交流、对话。而且，我们也会展出同一主题不同摄影师的作品，使观众可以透过不同视角欣赏到其作品以及观点的差异。
Upcoming Exhibition:
Chen Jiagang
The Great Third Front
Solo Exhibition – Photography
Opening party: August 16th, 2008 - 3pm
Exhibition Dates: August 16th, 2008 – October 30th, 2008
Venue: Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery I
Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery is delighted to present the new works of artist Chen Jiagang, from August 16th to October 30th, 2008.
The Great Third Front is an expansion of his series Third Front which was worldwide acclaimed and exhibited by the Paris-Beijing last autumn.
During the 1960’s, faced with an unstable foreign policy as well as a high demand for resources, the People’s Republic of China was forced to delocalize most of its heavy industry and armament factories. Originally situated on China’s coasts and in the North East close to the Russian border, these factories were obliged to relocate in the countries heartlands, hidden away and better protected.
So it was that the “Third Front” was created. Over a short period of time millions of workers were encouraged to move to the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, where hundreds of factories were huridly set up. Such a large scale relocation effort was unprecedented in China. Villages transformed overnight into dormitory towns. As immigrant populations were housed in makeshift buildings, these hamlets became significant industrial zones and duly prospered.
At the start of the 1980’s, Deng Xiaoping initiated drastic measures in an effort to force the economy to become more market-oriented. These measures hit the industrial zones of the “Third Line” hard, gutting the villages nearly as quickly as they had sprung up. In just a few years these industrial monoliths that were once the pride of the country became obsolete and useless. One by one they were closed down and the workers went back to their roots, leaving the cities abandoned. Today they are ghost towns in the truest sense of the word.
Chen Jiagang, an award-winning architect and former real estate promoter has a visceral understanding of space and form as well as an in depth feeling for the ways in which human beings live their lives. He brings this knowledge to the gigantic industrial spaces putting them to the ground glass of a field camera creating images that find their final expressions in the monumental large-scale color pictures that are his signature. Over the past five years, Chen Jiagang has taken the “Third Line” as the subject matter of his first extensive body of works trying to capture the specters of industry that still reside there.
The Great Third Front represents 88 new pictures realized in 12x20inches colour negatives. In a 30,000 miles journey by car, Chen Jiagang passed through the most remote places of Central and Western China, accompanied by a team of eight people. Three beautiful young women pose in these colossal industrial decors, appearing so distant and so exterior, as figures of another time and world. His sumptuous pictures sadly tell the story of these cities which were, at a time, the incarnation of the social idealism, the glory of the country and, which have become nowadays, useless industrial cemeteries and endless wastelands…
In a country that is presently experiencing one of the highest rates of development in the world, Chen Jiagang interrogate us about the usefulness, or absurdity of the mad race toward development that human beings have been pursuing for decades.
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Hi please would you be so kind as to take a look at our project - we are currently finding venues for screening in 2009 onwards... the CV's etc of most of the group are already online, and will be kept updated. If you would like to be informed of our progress - i will notify you?
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