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Post-Jiangnan: Liang Weizhou’s Shanghai

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Liang Weizhou works, loves and lives in his hometown of Shanghai. This jovial man produces works of a profound and disturbing solemnity. Until December 30, the M97 Gallery will be exhibiting his most recent works, vintage prints from the 1980s and 90s, as well as mixed media drawings.

Liang Weizhou (b. 1962) offers here his vision of Shanghai, notably the Jiang Nan region south of the Yangtze River. His large-format photographs combine several imageries, evoking both traditional landscapes of rocks and rivers, and more contemporary settings being slowly overtaken by factories and other developments.

Known for the past twenty years on the Chinese art scene as an expressionist painter, Liang Weizhou works in the pictorialist tradition, from his earliest series to his most recent, Post-Jiangan. The images he produces are somewhere between painting and photography. The artist uses almost exclusively black-and-white film to help photography shed its “realistic” appearance. His use of different colors, scratches, marks and other retouching techniques recall his experience as a painter. Post-Jiangan offers an ethereal and eerie vision of Shanghai, plunging the viewer into a deep meditation split between reverie and indignation.

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Read the full text of this article on the French version of Le Journal.

LIANG Weizhou solo exhibition :
Post-Jiangnan
From November 10th to December 30th, 2012
No. 97 Moganshan Road, 2nd floor

200060 Shanghai
China

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