GB - Gao Bo:

For thirty years now, Gao Bo has been fashioning a body of work that is at the crossroad of photography, installation art and performance. This vocation came to him after his first trip to Tibet, where he returned many times throughout the 1980s and the 1990s. His first trip to Tibet was in 1985, wh...

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Other Authors: Gao, Bo 1964- (Editor), Monterosso, Jean-Luc (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Chinese
Published: Shenzhen, China Artron Books [2017]
Edition:Special edition
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Summary:For thirty years now, Gao Bo has been fashioning a body of work that is at the crossroad of photography, installation art and performance. This vocation came to him after his first trip to Tibet, where he returned many times throughout the 1980s and the 1990s. His first trip to Tibet was in 1985, where he realized a series of portraits of striking classicism and mastery. Intrigued by this world, confronted with an alterity in which he instantly detected a deep familiarity. He immortalized the millenary rites of the Buddhist monks, the daily life of a people imprinted of spirituality, in this mineral and grandiose landscape, between heaven and earth. Using photographic material produced during his first trips to Tibet, he returned to his prints and covered them with ink, paint and his own blood. Gao Bo started to feel the limits of his photographic practice and begins a process of questioning and reinvention it, under the influence of Marcel Duchamp and the thought of Lao Tzu. Over the years, the artist's interventions on photographs became more and more extreme and flirted with performance, going so far as to cover black paint with monumental prints, or to burn a series of portraits of prisoners Dead to harvest the ashes. He is constantly pushing the limits of the photographic medium, questioning the disappearance, the trace and the possible renewal through a creative process at the frontiers of destruction.
Item Description:Cet ouvrage "Gao Bo Vol. 1-4" paraît à l'occasion de l'exposition "Gao Bo. Les Offrandes" à la Maison euroéenne de la photographie, du 8 février au 9 avril 2017 à Paris
Physical Description:4 Bände in Schuber
ISBN:9788869657191

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