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Ángel Marcos
China#50
"China#50", laserchromprint on paper mounted on plexi, ed 3, also in size 124x160 cm available, 180 x 235 cm
2007 | | |
hilger contemporary
Angel Marcos - China
Vernissage: Thursday, 4th October 07, 7.30 p.m., the exhibition runs until 8th November 07.
The photographic documentation of impressions made in faraway countries is almost as old as the history of the photographic medium itself. Pioneers of photography like Francis Frith or Maxime du Camp enticed the observer into transcendent worlds which slaked the thirst for the exotic.
Angel Marcos started out on the trail of the great cities of China. The photographer has created monumental tableaux to introduce us to the pulsating megacities and molochs of Shanghai, Peking and Hong Kong. The images he has shot testify to the glaring opposition of old and new, tradition and modernity, the Western world and ancient Asian tradition. Marcos's photos are stored traces of ephemerality, traces that some time or other might disappear for ever: small temples, pagodas, steaming cookshops on the street corner, parked bicycles on the pavement, washing hung out to dry on the crazy tangle of telephone cables. Modern bridge constructions bore their way brutally into the historic Chinese building substance, poignantly underlining their brittle fragility.
This exhibition was first shown at the MUSAC/Leon - Catalogue available. |
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