Li Gang Seoul Subway no. 4 2008
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Li Gang 2008 Australia
chromogenic print courtesy of the artist
Li Gang: in the grey scale
Monash Gallery of Art
Thursday 23 September 2010 to Sunday 28 November 2010
Opening Thursday 23 September 2010 7.30pm
Curated by the Australian artist Tony Trembath, Li Gang: in the grey scale surveys the recent photographic work of this Australian-trained Chinese artist. Li Gang is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts.
Since returning to Beijing in the late 1990s, he has maintained a diverse practice, which includes painting, sculpture and photography.
The use of hand-built cameras introduces risk and accidents to Li Gang’s work. In his photographs, instead of control and mastery, there is magic and mystery. The photographic darkroom was always a place of magic and mystery, where alchemy and science turned silver halides into pictures. Li Gang returns to these roots.
