[Ad] PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai exhibition September 8-10

PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai presents the first major exhibition of renowned Chinese artist Ren Hang since his death, and honors the masters of color photography for its fourth Shanghai fair – Spotlight and Insights.

PHOTOFAIRS announces two exciting new exhibitions for its fourth Shanghai fair - Spotlight and Insights. Internationally renowned Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang is the subject for the inaugural Spotlight exhibition, the first major presentation of the artist’s work in China since his death. The influence of color on fine art photography will be traced by Insights: A Colour Explosion: The Rise of Contemporary Photography, a curated exhibition of museum quality pieces for private sale.

A new initiative for 2017, Spotlight will annually highlight an artist of particular relevance and importance to the contemporary photography space and market at the time of the fair. No artist is currently more deserving of this recognition than the late Chinese photographer Ren Hang. Equally celebrated and censored throughout his short career, Ren Hang is widely regarded as one of the key influencers and leaders of the new generation of contemporary Chinese photography. The artist died in February 2017 aged 29, leaving behind an extraordinary body of work primarily focusing on the poetics and abstractions inherent to the human body. In collaboration with Beijing’s KWM art center, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai will present 19 Photographs, an exhibition featuring 19 images from Ren Hang’s last exhibition before his death, Beauty without Beards. Originally shown at the KWM art center in February 2017, all the images within the exhibition were the last to have been authenticated by the artist and following the artist’s death, they will never be printed again. They are on show in an international forum in China for the first time since Hang’s passing. 

For the 2017 Insights exhibition, PHOTOFAIRS’ Artistic Director Alexander Montague-Sparey looked to the mid-1970s and the moment at which the art world started to view photography as an artistic medium, partially due to the increased use of color. "Insights" exhibition marks the development of color photography through international stars William Eggleston, Harry Callahan, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz and Luigi Ghirri alongside contemporary artists Jiang Pengyi, Andrea Good and Shen Wei as well as Geng Jianyi.

PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai opens to collectors at the Shanghai Exhibition Center on Thursday 7 September and runs until September 10, 2017. Supported by Presenting Partner Porsche, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai is Asia Pacific’s most authoritative platform on contemporary photography, and mainland China’s most international art fair.

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