Chinese Spring #1

Chenman - 223 - Dawei

The exposition “Chinese Spring # 1” is the first show that shows an overview of the vibrant artistic Photography scene in present Beijing. These 3 Photographers, grown up in the Eighties are the role models for a complete new generation of young adolescents and artists of this New China in transformation.

223 shows works of his series “My private Broadway”, a publication he made in Guangzhou that shows a very individualistic approach of the daily life of this new generation of consumers, artists and young students in the suburbs of Shanghai , Guangzhou and Beijing. His blog is the most viewed blog on photography in China and is a platform on which many new artists have shown their works for the first time.

Chen Man is a Beijing based young woman , who has developped her own unique style : the transformation of models into fantasy figures in a idealistic world.

Dawei presents his series “cottons” , an interaction between his landscapes with portraits of Chen Man.