La Compagnie Française de l’Orient et de la Chine is holding an exhibition dedicated to black and white panoramic photographs by the French artist of Chinese origin, Zeng Nian. This exhibition is designed in collaboration with the sponsorship of Emerige.
The work of Zeng Nian brings together the evidence of photojournalism and aestheticism of artistic photography. His photographic compositions are inspired by Chinese printmaking in their panoramic format, which enables his photos to emphasize vertical or horizontal lines, and also by Chinese landscape painting.
Zeng Nian gives testimony to the social and cultural realities of rapidly evolving China. He tirelessly shows scenes of daily life in his country of origin. For twenty years, he also photographed the Three Gorges Dam. Three Gorges is constituted of narrow passes, hollowed for seventy million years, across the Daba Mountains, in which meander the dangerous streams of the longest river in China, the Yangtze River. For millenniums, these landscapes, made famous by many artists, have been a symbol of the richness and the romanticism of the Chinese civilization. In 1944, the Chinese government decided to construct, in this area, the biggest dam in the world. Today, a technological feat was certainly achieved, but one and a half million people were displaced. Cities and villages were swallowed by a lake of 54,000 km2, and the site was forever transformed.
EXHIBITION
Retour en Chine
Photographies by Zeng Nian
With Le Mécénat d’Emerige
From May 12th to August 27th, 2016
La Compagnie Française de l’Orient et de la Chine
170, boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris
France
Open from Monday to Saturday, from 10 am to 7 pm
+33 (0)1 53 53 40 80
http://www.cfoc.fr
http://www.emerige-corporate.com/fr/art-mecenat/
BOOK
Retour en Chine
Photography by Zeng Nian
Editions Lieux Dits
Book as an art object
78 x 40 cm
12 kilos
250 signed copies .Limited edition
Price : 960 € TTC
