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Dong Wensheng (b. 1970), Giclée, Chinese Garden No. 8, 2005

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:700.00 EUR Estimated At:1,120.00 - 1,400.00 EUR
Dong Wensheng (b. 1970), Giclée, Chinese Garden No. 8, 2005
Dong Wensheng creates with muted colors and shades mysterious and atmospheric pictorial worlds. In his conceptual photography he makes use of elements from nature and architecture of Chinese gardens and other landscapes as stage settings to integrate objects that surprise the observer. Here it is a bathing woman, who has turned her back towards the viewer, bending forward. Eminent is a formalist approach in his works. The ‘Chinese Garden’ series is probably his most well-known work series. This giclée print from the year 2005 is the print number 6 from a limited edition of 10 prints in total.



The work is dated ‘2005’ and signed lower right in pencil, as well as numbered ‘6/10’ and titled in Chinese and with ‘8’ lower left in pencil. The sheet bears the embossed stamp by the artist. It is slightly soiled at the upper right margin. There are minimal handling creases. The print is besides that in very good condition. The dimensions of the sheet are 109.5 x 102 cm.



Exhibition

New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘The Thirteen : Chinese Video Now ‘, 2006



Literature

‘Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection’, Exhibition Catalog, Kunstmuseum Bern and Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2005



Dong Wensheng (b. 1970)

Dong Wensheng studied from 1989 until 1992 at the Jiangsu Teachers University in the Art and Design Department. He was a pupil of Zhou Xiaohu, other sources of inspiration for him were traditional Chinese art, porcelain and poetry, as well as physics, Nietzsche and Robert Rauschenberg. His works appear at a first glance as realistic depictions of everyday scenes. But his compositions mostly contain an unexpected element. Wensheng exhibits his works internationally, he has had exhibitions in China, Switzerland, Italy, the US, Austria and Spain. The artist lives and works in Changzhou.
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