TRENDS in PHOTOGRAPHY: Feng MENGBO (P.R.China)

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Feng Mengbo (1966) is a young Chinese artist who lives and works in Beijing. His work combines his experiences as a child of the Cultural Revolution with contemporary Western technology and the visual language of video games. His interactive CD-ROM ‘Taking Mt. Doom by Strategy’ mixes the video game ‘Doom’ with images from the Chinese revolutionary opera ‘Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy’.

Feng Mengbo at the DOCUMENTA of 1997 in Kassel, Germany
'My Private Album. 1996'
Interactive installation
Kulturbahnhof

The original idea was to build an archive of photos and audio recordings of his family. Soon he realized, that it does not only belong to him but to all Chinese families. Nevertheless, he still liked give the work the title "My Private Album." (From the artist's video channel)

this work was used by CIRCLE-24 for an advertising campaign 'Open Borders, Open Minds' of VEENMAN DRUKKERS (NL) 

 

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BIOGRAPHY

Feng Mengbo

Address: Xinyuanjie 51-2-201

Beijing 100027, P. R. China

Education

1966 born in Beijing

1985 graduated from the Design Department of the Beijing School of Arts & Graft

1991 graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine

Arts, Beijing

Exhibitions

Solo

1994 'Game Over: Long March', Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

Group

1992 Art Asia, Hong Kong

1993 China's New Art, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Taipei

1993 Mao Goes Pop, Melbourne, Australia

1993 the 45th Venice Biennial, Italy

1994 New Art From China, Post-19889, Marlborough Gallery, London

1995 Visions of Happiness (Ten Asian Contemporary Artists), Tokyo, Japan

1995 Configura 2 (Dialogue of Culture), Erfurt, Germany

1995 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea

1995 Des del Pais del Centre: Avantguardes Artistiques Xineses, Centre d' Art

SantaMonica, Barcelona, Spain

1995 Der Abschied Von Der Ideologie, Hamburg Culturbehorde, Germany

 

 

 

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