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Lot 54
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Wang Qingsong

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40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Wang Qingsong
  • Past, Present, Future (Triptych)

  • signed and dated in gold pen at bottom left of each print and stamped People’s Republic of China – Wang Qingsong Seal

  • chromogenic prints
  • i, iii: 47 1/4 by 78 3/4 in. 120 by 200 cm ii: 47 1/4 by 59 in. 120 by 150 cm
  • Executed in 2001.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist

Exhibited

São Paulo, Fondation Armando Alvares Penteado, China, August 2002
Paris, Espace Cardin, Paris-Pékin, October 2002
New York, International Center of Photography and Asia Society; Chicago, Smart Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle Art Museum; London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, 2004 - 2006, no. 27, p. 76, illustrated in color
Kunstmuseum Bern; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, 2005, pp. 112-113, illustrated in color

Literature

Out of the Red: The New Emerging Generation of Chinese Photographers, Milan, 2004, pp. 186-189, illustrated in color
Zhu Qi, ed., Chinese Avant-Garde Photography Since 1990, Changsha, 2004, p. 239, illustrated in color
Romantique: Wang Qingsong, Beijing, 2004, p.25, illustrated in color

 

Catalogue Note

The left and right panels of the present triptych (Past and Present respectively) recreate precisely the statuary on either side of the Mao Zedong Mausoleum in Tian'anmen Square. The middle panel (Future) expounds the artist's own vision of what is to come.