Hai Bo 海波

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Hai Bo is a Chinese photographer. He lives and works in Beijing.

Contents 1 Date & Place of Birth 2 Education & Development 3 Art 3.1 They 3.2 The Northern 4 Exhibitions 5 Gallery Affiliation(s) 6 Awards & Honors 7 Acquisitions & Auctions 8 References

[edit] Date & Place of Birth

Hai was born in 1962 in Hilin Province.

[edit] Education & Development

Hai graduated from the Fine Art Institute of Jilin in 1984. In 1989, he completed his Advanced Studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Print Department.

[edit] Art

Hai Bo’s photography addresses personal experience placed in the bigger picture of space and passing time. His earlier works were juxtapositions of dated and contemporary photography that reflected changes in people and society due to passage of time.

Hai Bo lives in Tongxian on the outskirts of Beijing. His latest photography captures the surroundings and people living in the margin between China's urban and rural areas. At first glance, they appear to be snapshots, but their composition is so refined and concise that it betrays a sense of aloofness. They depict real and common situations while simultaneously creating a sense of theatrical absurdity and alienation. The gray sky and pale sun lend his images an air of surrealist fantasy. His work is characterized by both the sense of helplessness felt by lone individuals placed in an alien environment and the sense of absurdity inherent in lives without purpose or significance.^[1]

[edit] They

Reworking the group photos from the time of the Cultural Revolution, Hai brings the (living) subjects together and photographs them in the same arrangement.^[2]

[edit] The Northern

In his The Northern series, Hai Bo creates large scale color photographs of solitary figures moving through the austere landscapes of China's northern provinces--depictions designed to sum up the isolation and alienation of Chinese farm life.^[3]

[edit] Exhibitions

For Hai's full exhibition history, click here.

[edit] Gallery Affiliation(s)

Hai is represented by Beijing Commune in Beijing, Alexander Ochs in Berlin, and Max Protetch in New York.

[edit] Awards & Honors

In 2004, Hai received the 55th prize at the Fondazione Michetti in Italy.^[4]

[edit] Acquisitions & Auctions

For Hai Bo's auction record, click here.

For a list of collections containing Hai Bo's work, click here.

[edit] References

88MoCCA - The Museum of Chinese contemporary art on the web: Hai Bo

1. ↑ http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/08/16/32282.html
2. ↑ http://www.universes-in-universe.de/car/venezia/bien49/plat1/e-hai.htm
3. ↑ http://www.maxprotetch.com/MEDIA/02304.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=424062517&page_tab=Bio_and_links