ZHANG XIANYONG EXHIBITION 2011
Webb’s is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographic work by Zhang Xianyong. Xianyong belongs to a new generation of young Chinese photographers who engage with both traditional Chinese story telling and western modes of representation. His works are a carefully staged tableau that
reflects on the rapid pace of China’s economic development and the radical cultural shift that it has bought about in Chinese society. Xianyong’s sprawling works are generally composed of a myriad of cultural reference juxtaposed visually against one another; they are aimed at shining a light on a modern
China that is torn between its past and its future. His work is humorous, confronting and conceptually pervasive. Zhang Xianyong works and lives in Shanghai. For further enquiries contact Sophie Coupland scoupland@webbs.co.nz +64 9 529 5603
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