Cover news reporter Yang Fan
As a major event in the local photography circle, the recent "Private Myth" photography exhibition held at the Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum attracted many literary and artistic young people to punch in. The protagonist of the exhibition, the famous photographer Ma Liang, has just come to the exhibition site, and he guest-starred as a volunteer docent to share his creative path and the story behind the shooting of these photos to the audience. It is understood that as a New Year's Eve exhibition, this exhibition will be open to the public until March 31 next year.
Ma Liang
Ma Liang's "mobile photo studio" is a converted second-hand truck
It is understood that the "Private Myth" exhibition includes a total of 7 series of works created by Ma Liang since 2010, of which the photographic work "The Way You Look" and the video collage work "World" are exhibited for the first time. Not only is it a wonderful display of wonderful photos, but this exhibition also integrates a variety of media such as drama, video, and installation, showing the artist's cross-border and diversified comprehensive artistic expression ability.
Ma Liang moved his studio in Shanghai to Chengdu as it was
The reason why the exhibition is named "Private Myth", he said: "This is actually from the American cultural scholar Joseph Campbell, he said a sentence when describing the famous psychoanalyst Freud, 'Dreams are private myths, and myths are public dreams', when I heard this sentence, I was particularly moved, life is actually a dream, and creation is not a fool's dream? All creators in the lonely quest have only themselves believing that what they are doing makes sense. ”
There are not only photos at the exhibition site, but also many interesting installations
At the exhibition site, the Chengdu audience saw for the first time some of the works taken by Ma Liang during the public art project "Mobile Photo Gallery" launched 9 years ago, and different families and individuals appeared in the fantastic shots, and the final visual effect was like a still of a gorgeous drama. Ma Liang is like a mage with magical powers, in a way that turns stones into gold, making simple sets and ordinary shooting props full of fashion.
Ma Liang is explaining his work to the audience
Ma Liang introduced to art fans at the scene that in 2012, he launched the "Mobile Photo Studio" project, for which he specially set up a team, loaded his studio into two trucks, traveled through 35 cities across the country in 10 months, and took the traditional sense of "photo studio photos" for 1600 strangers for free in the form of building a temporary photo studio. It is understood that at that time, once Ma Liang's works were published, they caused a sensation throughout the country, and the number of online applicants exceeded 20,000.
Ma Liang's private camera
The creative spirit of sharing art and recording family affection advocated by "Mobile Photo Studio" has also inspired and inspired many young photographers to start public art creations similar to the same name. Let the once almost forgotten word "photo studio" be re-endowed with a new interpretation, and let photography reshape the sense of ritual in this era of image flooding, recording the interweaving of time emotions and revealing the warmth of human memory.
In addition, Ma Liang also talked about his relationship with art, not only about the installation art, concepts and works presented at the Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, but also about his growth, discovery and understanding, and the re-presentation in the exhibition. Ma Liang was born in the art family, began to paint at an early age, from a young age he was the "second generation of art" in the eyes of everyone, from the beginning of the use of Chinese painting to create to write scripts, shooting, and even the puppet installations seen in this exhibition, the experience of each work project has become an artist Ma Liang who has gradually become an artist who has attracted public attention.
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