On January 22nd, the "International Contemporary Photography Exhibition outside the Mirror", hosted by Beijing Zhongchuang Cultural Tourism Cultural Industry Group and undertaken by The Encounter Museum, was officially launched at the Encounter Museum in Space on the first floor of Beijing Yintai Center.
The exhibition features 84 works by 24 photographers from France, Germany, Finland, Italy, the United States, Russia, Iran and other countries, and the artists use the aesthetic power of images to create an illusion of mixed reality and imagination beyond the lens for the audience.
Showroom scene
Artists participating in the exhibition include Alan von Annworth, who was named one of the top ten most iconic fashion photographers of all time by Time Magazine, Michael Schlegel, a German photographer known for his amazing landscape photographs, Peyman Nadri, winner of the 2020 Fine Art Photography Award, 2019 Visual Photography Award, and Philip Labachev, a member of the Russian Federation of Photographic Artists. Sultan photographer Abdullah Elfaki, who focuses on telling stories and expressing human emotions through surreal vision and vibrant colors, Oliver Takchi, who uses light and shadow to create dreamlike visual effects, and Olga Zawisinskaya, a photographer whose works have been exhibited in more than 20 international exhibitions around the world.
The exhibition is divided into four units, namely "Fashion", "Concept", "Nature" and "Digital". From fashion photography, conceptual photography to the application of computer graphics technology in images, artists whether it is by simulating the strong grainy texture of silver salt photography, or relying on the old film lens sense created by black and white contrast, or capturing minimalist landscapes through long exposures, and transforming images full of dreamy temperament through post-graphic design techniques... What all the works think about and construct through the lens is the spiritual world that human beings are constantly enriching.
The first unit "Fashion" allows the audience to understand how the current fashion photography interprets the charm of fashion from different perspectives, which includes the deconstruction of the aesthetics of life, and also about the expression of deep human genes; the second unit "Concept" shows the audience how artists express their ideas through visual images, some of these works use surreal dreams and absurdities to trigger thinking about reality, and some reshape the imaginary world through post-stitching and combination, these works not only attract the audience's attention. At the same time, it also arouses the audience's deep thinking; the third unit "Nature", as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, its connotation gradually evolves from everything to the spiritual home of the artist's ideal, thus presenting more diversified aesthetic standards and philosophical meanings; the fourth unit "Digital" shows the infinite power of science and technology, which greatly expands the boundaries of video art, so that the development of video art can cross the limitations of time and space, region, nationality and physical level. This allows video art to spread to any corner of the world in an instant.
It is reported that this photography exhibition is the second exhibition after "Meet Chagall" and meet the museum in Space. Just finished admiring Chagall's brilliant and colorful world of color, followed by a more fantastic photographic world, allowing the audience to experience the multicultural connotations in different works of art.
The exhibition will run until February 27, 2022.