Melancholic black-and-white visions of a timeless Beijing await viewers at the Hua Gallery in London until March 12, 2013. Gallery director Shanyan Koder is presenting Xu Yong Retrospective Through the Hutongs, featuring pictures taken by Chinese photographer Xu Yong in 1989.
Xu Yong (b. 1954 in Shanghai) is a self-taught photographer. He studied at the Luoyang Polytechnic, then worked in advertising before devoting himself fully to photography. Xu Yong has been on the Beijing art scene for the past twenty years, and played an important part in the creation of the 798 Art Zone in the city’s northeast. He is also known for his series Solutions (2006), with photographs of long-haired, naked women standing nonchalantly amid groups of businessmen.
