ZHENG Guogu »
Photo works
Exhibition: 1 Jan – 30 Jan 2003
Shanghart gallery 1
Nr. 50 Moganshan Rd, Bldg 16
200020 Shanghai
ShanghART gallery m50
Nr. 50 Moganshan Rd
200060 Shanghai
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Zheng Guo Gu, born in 1970, lives and works in Yangjiang. In the beginning of 90s, especially after 1992, there was a great economy development in China. The foundation of society system also changed accordingly. Due to the freedom of expression and renovation of language, the world of the modern Chinese visual art started to compete with the frontier art, and experienced the same changes. Those new artists, who were not involved in the frontier movement in the 80s, are now becoming the art centricity with new thoughts, new value and new language. Zheng is one of these outstanding artists. Born in Yangjiang, Guangdong, Zheng completed his education in Guandong. Culture openness is a tradition in this province. After 1980, Guandong has been influenced by Hong Kong and foreign culture. Under such background, Zheng consciously accepted the pop culture, and developed his point of view towards life and art in the transforming society. With rich sense of humor and special ideas, among the complicated social phenomena, he saw their internal relationships. Through his camera, he tells us a new story about real life, imagination, dream, and enjoyment of the youth. With a simple camera, he recorded the life of his peer group with pictures, which reflect those people who are confused by the uncertainty of reality and unreality, as well as the new thoughts appearing around them. In his album “My Bride”, he fabricated a story about honeymooning with someone else’s bride, to point out the often mistakes in life. For him, everything is assumable, even a bride or a honeymoon. In the album “Aberrant Behaviors of Yangjiang Youth”, the coherency of reality and assumption are more interesting, ironic, and comic. As in some Kung Fu movies, a group of youth shoot, chase girls, fights each other, and confronts police, with violence and folic.