Lot 251
  • 251

Wang Qingsong

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Wang Qingsong
  • Past, Present, Future (Triptych)
  • signed in Chinese and Pinyin, dated 2001 twice, numbered 9 of 10, and with two seals of the artist 
  • 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.

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe

Exhibited

Other examples exhibited:
Sáo Paulo, Fondation Armando Alvares Penteado, China, August 2002
Paris, Espace Cardin, Paris-Pékin, October, 2002, pp. 196-197, illustrated in color
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

Wang Qingsong, London, 2006, pp. 54-55, illustrated in color
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
Centre Pompidou ed., Alors, la Chine?, Paris, 2003, pp. 275-276, 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.