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Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

March 5 - April 26, 2009

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1 Sutter Street Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94104
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(re)Turn to (re)Form Hong Lei, from series Speak, Memory (2008) color Coupler print. 29 x 40 inches
Chinese Classicism in New Media Opening Reception Thursday March 5, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present a group exhibition of new works by Chinese artists Wang Tian De, Hong Lei and Gao Yuan, all of whom combine digital media and print photography to reinterpret the themes and iconography of classical Chinese painting. These artists represent a generation of Chinese visual artists whose practices matured during the country’s rise to political and economic prominence in the 1990s and 2000s. Bypassing the outsized faces, political kitsch and other Western-influenced modes of expression that typified “Contemporary Chinese Art” in the past decade, these artists re-adhere to the core principles of compositional form and aesthetics that have shaped the Chinese visual tradition for millennia. At the same time, their use of new digital technology to create their classically influenced images renders them unambiguously contemporary.