Tag: China
Exhibition “Invitation aux nuages” at Musée du Revermont, France
Two prints of Marc Riboud’s photographs of Huang Shan (the Yellow Mountains in China) are on loan from the Guimet – National Museum of Asian Arts to be exhibited at Musée du Revermont, France.
For more information (in French): patrimoines.ain.fr/n/exposition-en-cours
« Quand la Chine s’éveille sous l’objectif de Marc Riboud » on Arte TV
The short documentary movie « Quand la Chine s’éveille sous l’objectif de Marc Riboud » (When China arises under the lens of Marc Riboud) has been broadcasted on Arte TV.
The director Renaud Cohen traveled on the traces of Marc Riboud in China. Photographers Xiao Quan and Li Ning, as well as galerist Huge Ling analyse his photographs and enlighten us on the major importance of his work in this country.
“Turning A Glance into Poetry”, retrospective exhibition at the Chengdu Art Museum, China
On December 10th, the retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud at the Hunan Museum closed its doors. It was a real success, with almost 50,000 visitors in 3 months! And it’s not over yet for the Chinese public, as Marc Riboud’s photographs are now on show at the Chengdu Art Museum, in a redesigned exhibition space.
This exhibition is part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China. We would like to thank the French Institute in China for its support.
“The countries I love are like friends,” Marc Riboud once wrote, adding: “I like to see them again, to know what they are becoming, how they are changing. So I often go back to China, where everything changes more quickly than elsewhere, even if the attentive eye can see the permanence of things beneath this turbulent surface”.
Where? Chengdu Art Museum, N°388 Jinniuba Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu
For more information: https://www.cdmuseum.com
Book “Chines” now available in Chinese
We are glad to announce the publication in Chinese language of the emblematic book Chines. First published in 2019 by éditions de La Martinière, this extensive book is now published by Gingko in Shanghai. The book traces, over more than 50 years, the numerous stays Marc Riboud had in China, this country with which he forged a particular relationship.
This edition, slightly enriched, offers now to a new audience, especially concerned by the subject, the possibility to discover the beauty and deep transformation of this country, through more than 350 photographs, in black & white and color.
“West Meets East”, retrospective exhibition at the Hunan Museum, Changsha, China
The Association Les amis de Marc Riboud is delighted to announce the opening of a major retrospective exhibition in China featuring 148 photographs by Marc Riboud on loan from the Guimet Museum. Bringing together all these journeys, from Paris to the Far East and around the world, the exhibition gives pride of place to China.
China has been Marc Riboud’s greatest passion. As soon as he became a photographer, he tried to obtain a visa for this country that he had always dreamed of. Finally, in 1957, he was to be immersed for the first time in the faces and landscapes of China’s countryside and big cities. There he walked for days and days, in silence. To see and observe, because for him, the only way to understand this people, who seemed so far from us, was to look at them.
In the course of his many journeys, a deep, silent bond developed with those he was looking at. This silent communication with the Chinese people was Marc Riboud’s greatest joy. He loved exhibiting in China and would have been delighted with this retrospective in Changsha and Chengdu, which shows once again that the Chinese are still sensitive to this respectful, sympathetic gaze, which seeks to understand, to discover the beauty of form in the disorder of reality, to patiently follow the evolution of a people over more than fifty years.
This exhibition is part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China. We would like to thank the French Institute of China for its support.
Where? Hunan Museum, N°50 Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha
For more information: https://www.hnmuseum.com
Photographs by Marc Riboud at Taikoo Li Qiantan, Shanghai
A selection of Marc Riboud’s photographs are to be seen in Shanghai, at Taikoo Li Qiantan, as part of the “Meta Eye Festival”.
Address: Taikoo Li Qiantan, 500 Dongyu Road, Pudong New Area, 200041, Shanghai, China
Exhibition “From France to China”, f22 foto space, Hong Kong
This May, f22 foto space presents “Marc Riboud – From France to China”, an exciting cultural journey of the two countries, on the 30th anniversary of the French May Art Festival.
Adress: f22 foto space, Shops BW11&13, The Peninsula Hotel, Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
For more information: www.f22.com
Exhibition “Chines” at Polka Gallery, Paris
Polka Gallery presents “Chines”, an exhibition enlighting Marc Riboud’s interest and fascination for the country and its people, through a selection of arounnd 40 rare prints: large formats, vintages, and also a serie of delicate dye-transfer prints.
A journey into the Orient, from the Hundred Flowers campaign in 1957 to Hu Jintao’s capitalism. “From the Great Leap Forward to the economical boom, from the egalitarian poverty to the nouveaux riches, from the Cultural Revolution to the worshiping of money, I have seen a very “Chinese” China, first enrolled by Mao, rush frenetically to the market economy.”, wrote Marc Riboud.
Polka Gallery, 12 rue Saint-Gilles, 75004 Paris
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 7pm, or on appointment.
For more information: the gallery’s website
Publication of “Chines” by La Martinière
From Marc Riboud’s first journey in China in 1957, warnings were countless: “You will see only what the Chinese will allow you to see (…) a scenery well prepared for you…”. But Marc Riboud went against these predictions, with courteous insistence, ruse, patience, he went inside houses, schools, factories, he walked endlessly in the cities as well as in remote countrysides. He saw the early signes of the Great Leap Forward and of the Cultural Revolution, the incredible economical boom of the 80s which he photographed until the 2000s. Without forgetting the “Yellow Mountains”, Huang Shan, the inspiration place of Chinese painting.
With more than 260 photographs in black & white and in color, Marc Riboud gives us a visual portrait of a multiple and complex China, a China which fascinated him by its millenary culture and the energy of its people.
A 304 pages book, at the price of 59€, in bookstores from October 24th.
Exhibition “La Chine de Marc Riboud” at Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, China
After being exhibited in Kunming and Shenzhen, “La Chine de Marc Riboud” is shown in the brand new Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, in collaboration with the French Consulate in Chengdu and the support of French Institute in China. This exhibition gathers 36 major photographs by Marc Riboud on China, from his first trips in 1957 and 1965 to his photographs of Shanghai in the 2000s.
For more information: the museum’s website
Adress: No 889 Jinfu Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu, China