First in Hong Kong at the gallery “Contemporary by Angela Li”, then in Beijing at Today Art Museum, February and March mark two months to have achance to see the big prints from the series Landscapes by Chinese photographer He Xingyou.
“These works include the commonly seen contemporary landscape – large-scale city relocations and urban periphery constructions, deserted half-finished projects, ghost towns, mountain digging, sabotaging of the nature under the allure of great profits, with green mountains and clear water reduced to small lot .
He Xingyou had been a successful entrepreneur in China since the 1970s, but has gone through many ups and downs in his life. He has been arrested and put in prison several times, having been accused of being a counterrevolutionary in his teens, for listening to Soviet classical music on the radio, for being a capitalist when he was 20 after making decent money from taking photographs and portraits and later again in the middle of the last decade. However, all these never stopped his dedication to photography. Prior to this exhibition, He Xingyou had a solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing and the Museum subsequently collected 12 works from the show.
He Xingyou
Solo Exhibition
14 February – 9 March 2014
Contemporary by Angela Li
G/F, 248 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan
Hong Kong
